Effects of Microstructure Types on the Evaporation Efficiency of Electrically Heated Micro Evaporator

Abstract:

In this work, a laminated microstructure-plate electrically heated micro evaporator was proposed. The effects of microstructure types on the evaporation efficiency of electrically heated micro evaporator under different input voltage values and flow rates of water were investigated. It was indicated that the triangular microstructure plate presented the best evaporation efficiency regardless of the change of input voltage and feed flow rate. The nonuniform-distributed microchannel plate presented better evaporation performance than that of uniform-distributed microchannel plate, while the triangular microstructure plate presented higher evaporative performance than that of rectangular microstructure plate.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 655-657)
• Pages: 1123-1126
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.655-657.1123
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Shu Zhang Zhou, Rui Kong, Min Qiang Pan, Qiao Xia Yuan, Ting Bo Hou
• Keywords: Electrically Heated, Evaporation Efficiency, Micro Evaporator, Microstructure

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