AbstractsEngineering

The study of the rate of energy exchange in the form of heat between the various physical states of matter leads to the annual appearance of approximately one thousand papers, books and articles at the present time. It is obvious that any field producing such a voluminous literature must be divided, if possible, into a number of more specific for detailed study. The motivation for many such studies, especially when they concern chemical engineering, can be found in the development of novel processing techniques and equipment. The present investigation owes its origin to the development of the atomized suspension technique described in a recent paper by Gauvin and Gravel (24a). In this technique a spray of droplets is generated at the top of a heated tube.