Jiao Mingshun, Chen Miaomiao, Jin Zheyan, et al. Experimental Study on Freezing Process of Water Droplet on Cold Surface at Low Ambient Temperatures[J]. Journal of refrigeration, 2020, 41(1).
DOI:
Jiao Mingshun, Chen Miaomiao, Jin Zheyan, et al. Experimental Study on Freezing Process of Water Droplet on Cold Surface at Low Ambient Temperatures[J]. Journal of refrigeration, 2020, 41(1). DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4339.2020.01.074.
Experimental Study on Freezing Process of Water Droplet on Cold Surface at Low Ambient Temperatures
The present study measured the effects of the ambient temperature and substrate surface on the freezing process of a water droplet. We built the experimental setup for the measurement of the droplet freezing process in a low-temperature test chamber. An air pressure controller was used to control the pressure inside the droplet generator to produce water droplets. Then
a camera recorded the details of the droplet freezing process. The results showed that the heat conductivity coefficient of the substrate surface had a significant influence on the freezing time. When the ambient temperature was -22.0 ℃
the freezing time of the droplets on red copper was 3.8 s and the freezing time of droplets on stainless steel was 5.0 s
both of which were less than the 15.2 s measured for the glass surface. In addition
despite the appearance of protrusions during the water droplet freezing process in all the cases
the collapsing bulge phenomenon happened only in the glass surface case.