Heat transfer characteristics during mist cooling on a heated cylinder

Abstract

Mist cooling is expected to contribute to better steel products because it enables uniform and moderate cooling in steel-making processes. In this study, experimental data were obtained to understand the mist cooling process in a high-temperature cylinder The wetting phenomenon on the cylinder surface was also observed with an installed CCD camera. Comparing these results with those from previous investigations, we found that our cooling curve corresponded to two distinct heat transfer regimes in mist cooling. A simplified model from the analysis was introduced to simulate the cooling curve in each heat transfer regime. The estimated cooling curves by this model agreed with the experimental data in one regime and had a similarity in the other regime.