Experimental study on evaporation characteristics of urea-water-solution droplets for scr applications

Abstract

Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Turkey, 19-21 July, 2010.

The evaporation behavior of urea-water-solution (UWS) droplet was investigated for application to urea-selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems. A number of experiments were perfomed with single UWS droplet suspended on the tip of a fine quartz fiber. To cover the temperature range of real-world diesel exhausts, droplet ambient temperature was regulated from 373 to 873K using an electrical furnace. As a result of this study, UWS droplet revealed different evaporation characteristics depending on its ambient temperature. At high temperatures, it showed quite complicated behaviors such as bubble formation, distortion, and partial rupture after a linear D2-law period. However, as temperature decreases, these phenomena became weak and finally disappeared. Also, droplet diminishment coefficients were extracted from transient evaporation histories for various ambient temperatures, which yields a quantitative evaluation on evaporation characteristics of UWS droplet as well as provides valuable empirical data required for modeling or simulation works on urea-SCR systems.