Abstract
Energy from hot gas discharge streams can be
recovered by transfer directly to a coolant liquid in one of
several available gas-liquid contacting devices. The design of
the device is central to the theme of this paper, and
experimental work has verified that the analogy between heat
transfer and mass transfer can be used for design purposes.
This enables the large amount of available mass transfer data
for spray, packed and tray columns to be used for heat transfer
calculations. Additional information is provided on flow
arrangements for integrating direct contact exchangers into
systems for recovering the energy transferred to the liquid.
Fair, J. R.; Bravo, J. L. (1988). Energy Recovery By Direct Contact Gas-Liquid Heat Exchange. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu). Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /92397.