High-Efficiency Droplet Exchange System

Traditional heat exchangers operate with a constant battle of optimizing the thermal transfer rate and reducing heat losses. Ensuring optimal performance without significant energy loss is a major challenge. Moreover, the majority of these systems do not promote reusability of resources, causing waste and increasing operational costs. Existing heat-exchange methods experience a limitation in optimizing the surface area for thermal energy exchange, and thus demonstrate suboptimal performances. The separation between the heat-exchange mediums also tends to be inefficient, often leading to energy wastage. Furthermore, the absence of reusability features in conventional systems can lead to a depletion of resources and increased system maintenance.

Technology Description

The droplet heat exchange system involves multiple components, including a heat exchange chamber, a liquid injector, a swirler, and a collector. Gas flows through the chamber and liquid droplets are inseminated into this flow through the injector to enable thermal energy exchange. The swirler has a body specifically designed to form a spiral gas flow that pushes the liquid droplets radially outward, causing the separation of the liquid droplets from the gas and the formation of a liquid film along the inner wall of the chamber. This liquid film is then collected by the collector after the thermal energy exchange. What makes this technology stand out is its innovative approach of creating and utilizing the liquid film. This process increases the efficiency of thermal energy transfer between the gas and the liquid. Moreover, the collector is configured to direct some of the collected liquid film to the injector for further use, promoting reusability and reducing waste.