Abstract
Vapor condensation is a ubiquitous phase change phenomenon in nature, as well as widely exploited in various industrial applications such as power generation, water treatment and harvesting, heating and cooling, environmental control, and thermal management of electronics. Condensation performance is highly dependent on the interfacial transport and its enhancement promises considerable savings in energy and resources. Recent advances in micro/nano-fabrication and surface chemistry modification techniques have not only enabled exciting interfacial phenomenon and condensation enhancement but also furthered the fundamental understanding of interfacial wetting and transport. In this chapter, we present an overview of dropwise condensation heat transfer with a focus on improving droplet behaviors through surface design and modification. We briefly summarize the basics of interfacial wetting and droplet dynamics in condensation process, discuss the underlying mechanisms of droplet manipulation for condensation enhancement, and introduce some emerging works to illustrate the power of surface modification. Finally, we conclude this chapter by providing the perspectives for future surface design in the field of condensation enhancement.
Keywords
- condensation
- micro/nanostructures
- droplet
- wetting
- nucleation
- heat transfer enhancement
1. Introduction
Condensation heat transfer has been at the forefront of both fundamental and engineering research due to its significance in many conventional and emerging industrial applications. For example, vapor condensation has been widely exploited for thermal management of high-power systems to maintain adequate performance and system reliability, such as advanced lasers, light-emitting diodes, radars, microprocessors, electrical machines, and power inverters [1, 2]. Meanwhile, the thermal efficiency of steam cycles, responsible for a major fraction of electricity production, is highly dependent on the heat transfer performance of vapor condensation [3]. Furthermore, condensation performance strongly influences the energy and infrastructure costs of water treatment and desalination technologies, which is becoming increasingly important due to water scarcity and world population growth [4]. Recent advances in condensation processes on the micro/nanostructured surfaces have also enabled many emerging applications in water and energy systems, such as atmospheric water harvesting [5], solar steam generation [6, 7], humidity control of building environment [8], droplet-jumping-induced gas absorption [9], jumping-droplet electronics cooling [10, 11], and jumping-droplet electrostatic energy harvesting [12]. More natural phenomena and emerging applications in the field can be found in Figure 1.
Vapor preferentially condenses on a solid substrate rather than directly homogeneous nucleation in the vapor phase due to the smaller energy barrier [13]. Once vapor condensation occurs on a solid substrate, the wetting of liquid condensate, determined by surface topography and chemical compositions, plays a key role in heat transfer performance as it is involved in the whole cycle of nucleation, growth, and departure of a liquid phase [14]. Dropwise condensation on a hydrophobic surface, where the gravity-driven droplet roll-off frequently refresh the surface, has an order of magnitude higher heat transfer efficiency than that of filmwise condensation on a hydrophilic surface, where a continuously thickening liquid film covers on the condensing surface [15]. Dropwise condensation is an intrinsically multi-scale energy transfer process, involving the initial formation of droplets at a length scale at a few nanometers, then growth and coalescence, and final droplet departure/shedding of at the millimeter scale, as shown in Figure 2. Besides, each sub-process of condensation has different preferred wettability for accelerating the whole cycle of condensed droplets, for example, easier initial nucleation on a hydrophilic substrate with low energy barrier, and faster surface refreshing on a hydrophobic surface with low surface adhesion [16, 17, 18, 19]. Thus, the requirements on the surface topography and chemical compositions are dynamically varying from the initial nucleation to final droplet departure.
Despite that superhydrophobic surfaces with micro/nanostructures can further promote surface refreshing with spectacular water repellency, for example, self-propelled droplet jumping, the presence of vapor layer within the micro/nanostructures that is beneficial for reduce solid-liquid adhesion, brings in an additional thermal resistance to hinder droplet growth [20, 21]. Even worse is that the nucleation of nanoscale droplets within micro/nanostructures can cause unwanted pinned states of condensed droplets, which can lead to flooding phenomenon and ultimately heat transfer degradation of superhydrophobic surfaces [22, 23, 24, 25, 26]. To prevent the nucleation-induced flooding, some emerging techniques, for example, hybrid surfaces with wettability contrast and slippery liquid-infused porous (SLIP) surfaces, have been proposed to manipulate droplet behaviors in condensation process. For example, the different wettability on a hybrid surface can spatially control initial nucleation, addressing the random nucleation on a uniform surface [18, 19, 27]. On a SLIP surface, the lubricating fluid is immiscible with liquid condensate while preferentially wets the micro/nanostructures on the substrate, creating a lubricating fluid layer between the substrate and condensed droplets to reduce surface adhesion for high droplet mobility [5, 28, 29, 30].
Given the importance of surface structures and wettability on condensation processes, intensive efforts have been devoted to understanding the physics of dropwise condensation and to developing various micro/nanostructures and functional coatings to control droplet behaviors. In this chapter, we present an overview of the advance in dropwise condensation with a focus on improving droplet dynamics by surface modification. We briefly summarize the surface fabrication and modification, introduce droplet nucleation and size distribution in dropwise condensation, discuss the underlying mechanisms of droplet manipulation using micro/nanostructures, and introduce some typical works to illustrate the power of surface modification. We also discuss several emerging strategies to enhance condensation that could break the limit of conventional dropwise condensation. Finally, we conclude this chapter by providing the perspectives for future surface design in the field of condensation enhancement.
2. Basics of dropwise condensation
Wetting behavior of liquid condensate on the substrate is critical in condensation process. For a smooth surface without roughness, a droplet forms an intrinsic contact angle, defined as the angle between the solid-liquid and liquid-vapor interfaces within the liquid (Figure 3). The intrinsic contact angle
where
During condensation process, the wetting of condensed droplets on a rough surface can be differentiated into the highly pinned Wenzel state with large adhesion and suspended Cassie state with high mobility. Both Wenzel and Cassie states can be understood as a global energy minimization of a droplet. On such a surface with roughness
For a droplet in Cassie state on a rough surface, the apparent contact angle is defined by,
Nucleation is the first step in dropwise condensation to create a new solid-liquid interface, followed by droplet growth and shedding [16]. The critical nucleation radius
where
Compared to a hydrophobic surface with a larger contact angle
where
where
where
When a droplet grows large enough to contact with adjacent droplets, they merge and speed up droplet growth, stabilizing the surface coverage to a constant value, known as the self-similarity in dropwise condensation [14, 15, 17, 33, 34]. On a vertical or inclined hydrophobic surface, condensed droplets are generally removed by the gravity-driven shedding. Droplet departure radius
Once the droplets begin to departure from the surface driven by the gravity, other droplets in the path of droplet departure can be effectively swept by coalescence, refreshing the condensing surface. New small droplets then re-nucleate, grow, and coalescence on the fresh surface, which is responsible for the high-efficiency heat transfer performance of dropwise condensation [36, 37]. Compared with the time scale of initial nucleation, the duration of droplet growth, coalescence, and departure usually dominates the whole cycle [1, 37]. Increasing apparent contact angle
Understanding the cycle of condensed droplets on a solid surface, a classical model was proposed by Le Fevre and Rose to predict dropwise condensation heat transfer where the heat transfer through individual droplet is calculated first and the average heat flux is then obtained by integrating over all the distributed droplets on the condensing surface [38].
where
3. Surface fabrication for dropwise condensation
In most thermal systems, liquid condensate typically forms a liquid film on the heat transfer surface because of the high surface energy of common industrial components such as clean metals. To achieve dropwise condensation for high-efficient heat transfer, various hydrophobic coatings such as long-chain fatty acid, polymer materials, rare-earth oxide ceramics, and self-assembled monolayers [14, 37, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58], are usually applied to increase hydrophobicity for high water repellency. Monolayer coatings, typically a few nanometers in thickness, for example, long-chain fluorocarbons and fatty acids, can increase water repellency of the surface with a negligible additional thermal resistance (Figure 4a). However, they are generally not durable due to the low chemical stability and low bonding strength with the substrate [14, 52]. With a similar hydrophobicity, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) coatings have been attempted to increase surface repellency while maintaining low thermal resistance (Figure 4b) [59]. Thicker polymer coatings have been shown to maintain robust water repellency during vapor condensation (Figure 4c). However, they typically have a large thermal resistance that can even negate the heat transfer enhancement achieved by dropwise condensation [54]. In addition, the initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) and plasma-enhanced CVD techniques have been used to grow ultrathin conformal polymer coatings to achieve hydrophobicity (Figure 4d). However, further study is necessary to evaluate the durability of these ultrathin coatings for condensation heat transfer enhancement [55, 58]. Recently, ultrathin graphene (Figure 4e) with low thermal resistance and good chemical stability has been used to obtain stable dropwise condensation, without obvious heat transfer degradation in a 2-week measurement [56]. Another typical material is the rare-earth oxide (REO), which can be potentially used as a hydrophobic material at scale due to the development of ceramic processing techniques (Figure 4f) [57]. Note that the wettability of REO is reported to be intrinsically hydrophilic and the hydrophobicity of REO is due to the adsorbed hydrocarbon species [60, 61, 62]. Despite that many new functional coatings mentioned above have shown some potential to achieve dropwise condensation, a cost-effective, low-thermal resistance, and robust hydrophobic coating to promote sustainable dropwise condensation has proven to be exceedingly challenging, resulting in ubiquitous filmwise condensation in real industrial applications.
To further improve droplet mobility, various micro/nanostructured surfaces are developed using advanced fabrication technologies. Micro/nanostructured silicon surfaces are fabricated using both wet and dry etching methods [63]. Typically, silicon nanowires synthesized by wet etching methods are vertically aligned [64]. Due to the surface tension of water during the drying process of nanowire synthesis, a large number of micro-defects are naturally formed where the closely aligned silicon nanowires cannot individually stand but form clusters [65]. Compared with the wet etching methods, finer structure geometries can be fabricated by dry etching where the etching rate can be controlled more precisely. In addition to the nanowires with uniform diameters, conical silicon nanowires were also fabricated to promote the formation of high-mobility droplets with the auxiliary Laplace pressure difference (Figure 5a) [25]. To meet the need of multiple length scales in manipulating droplet growth, hierarchical silicon nanowires with both microscale and nanoscale features have been fabricated by coupling micro-patterns and nanostructures [66]. Figure 5b shows a hierarchical surface with parallel microgrooves that are formed by patterning silicon nanowire arrays with different lengths [67, 68]. Figure 5c shows another hierarchical surface, consisting of micro-pyramids covered by silicon nanowires [69]. Compared to the silicon, metal materials, for example, aluminum, stainless steel, and copper, have better physical and thermal properties, to be exploited for improving heat transfer such as high thermal conductivity, stability, and machinability. Among various surface fabrication methods for metal micro/nanostructures, the electrochemical deposition (or electroplating) method with the assistance of templates is considered to be a convenient and versatile approach [21, 65, 70, 71, 73]. Figure 5d shows the gold nanowires fabricated to promote droplet coalescence without direct coalescence [70]. Using a two-step template-assisted electrochemical deposition method, closely spaced copper nanowires were fabricated to promote the formation of mobile droplets in suspended wetting states (Figure 5e) [65]. To prevent the formation of microdefects between agglomerated nanowire arrays, the 3D copper nanowire networks consisting of interconnected nanowires with nanoscale bumps were fabricated using 3D porous anodic alumina oxide templates (Figure 5f). These nano-bumps on the nanowire walls serve as anchors to fix adjacent nanowires [71]. Figure 5g shows a hierarchical surface with micro-patterned copper nanowire arrays [21]. In addition, the commercial metal materials, such as copper mesh, foam, and particles, have been applied to develop low-cost superhydrophobic surfaces and to provide a solution for large-scale deployment of enhanced heat transfer surfaces in a diverse range of technologies (Figure 5h) [72]. Despite that diverse micro/nanostructured surfaces have been fabricated to meet the multiple length scale need in manipulating droplet growth as mentioned above, there remains a need for advanced surface features to optimize droplet behaviors for future vapor condensation enhancement.
4. Nucleation and droplet size distribution
According to the classic nucleation theory, a substrate with low contact angles can decrease energy barrier and increase nucleation rate. The geometrical structure can also enable spatial distribution of nucleation sites on a micro/nanostructured surface. More interestingly, the structure feature plays an important role in determining the wetting mode of a nucleated droplet and subsequent droplet growth and dynamics. For example, a droplet in Cassie state has low adhesion and high mobility, which is favorable for dropwise condensation. Various theoretical and semiempirical models have been proposed to describe the relationship between surface structure and nucleation, for example, interfacial free energy analysis and cluster theory [16, 17, 19, 74]. To obtain more detailed information on the droplet nucleation in micro/nanostructures, many numerical modeling methods have been developed such as the Gibbs free energy analyses, finite element method, lattice Boltzmann method, lattice density functional method, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations [13, 18, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80].
Nucleation of water droplet on the surfaces with different wettability and structural features has been widely investigated by MD simulations. The nucleation process and wetting state of nucleated droplets were obtained by manipulating the interaction potentials between surface atoms and vapor molecules [13]. The near-constant contact angles can be established for nanoscale nucleated droplets on a surface, decreasing as the solid-liquid interaction intensities linearly. On an uniform high-energy surface (Figure 6a), the interactions between surface atoms and water molecules are strong to capture water molecules rapidly once they get close to the surface. A large number of water molecules are absorbed on the surface and the nucleation occurs almost instantaneously. On a hybrid surface with different surface energies (Figure 6b), where high-energy sites distributed on a low-surface energy surface, the nucleation preferably initiates on the high-energy sites. The clusters are trapped on the high-energy sites instead of migrating around observed on an uniform surface (Figure 6a). The growth of nucleated droplets on high-energy particles can be divided into three stages: the formation of a wet-spot, increase of contact angle with near-constant contact line, and finally growth with constant contact angle. The droplet growth rate can be improved by increasing the size of high-energy sites. Moreover, the microstructures (Figure 6c), for example, micro-pores and microgrooves, can promote droplet nucleation due to the lower energy barrier caused by the larger solid-liquid contact area when compared with a smooth surface. The preferred nucleation in the microstructures was also observed on the nanostructured surfaces with micro-defects (Figure 6d).
After droplets nucleate on a solid surface, they can grow through two mechanisms: direct growth without coalescence for the small droplets by vapor condensing on the liquid-vapor interface, and coalescence-dominated growth for the large droplets by merging with neighboring droplets. As a result, condensed droplets with a wide range of sizes exist on a surface, forming a unique self-similarity. The transient characteristic of droplet size distribution has been widely studied to understand the heat transfer mechanism of dropwise condensation [14, 17, 32, 34, 51, 81, 82]. In the initial droplet growth stage after nucleation, all the droplet sizes are uniform and droplet size distribution has a peak value, showing the lognormal distribution (Figure 7a). With droplets growing up, the average droplet size increases. Then, the coalescences among droplets lead to a wider span of droplet size and decline of the right peak. With the increasing space among the first generation droplets, new droplets nucleate and grow at the exposed substrate, forming a bimodal distribution. With further coalescence and nucleation, the number of larger droplets decreases while the number of smaller droplets increases, and droplet size range becomes wider. Finally, the right peak vanishes and the distribution becomes unimodal. Due to the self-similarity feature of droplet size distribution, a representative large enough surface area contains various growth stages, resulting in a steady-state droplet size distribution [14, 82].
To further understand the evolution of droplet size distribution, a transient cluster size distribution model was introduced to investigate the kinetics of the initial condensation stage by MD simulation method [17]. It is well known that the growth/decay of clusters is significantly affected by the cluster size and contact angles of the condensing surface. With the increase of cluster sizes, more surface area of the cluster is exposed to the vapor, as well as the increased attachment/detachment frequencies. When the contact angle decreased to a certain value, the attachment frequency becomes larger than detachment frequency, resulting in the continuous growth of the clusters and subsequent nucleation. The results of the evolution of cluster/droplet size distribution indicate that the transient cluster size distribution translates from a monotonic decreasing distribution to a unimodal distribution with time (Figure 7b,c). The cluster radius at the peak of cluster/droplet size distribution curve shifts to the larger cluster sizes with time. However, the peak value decreases as the size distribution curve is close to a lognormal distribution with time, which is distinctly different from the homogeneous equilibrium distribution (Figure 7d).
5. Condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces
Surface modification plays a crucial role in manipulating droplet wetting and dynamics. When micro/nanostructures are covered with hydrophobic coatings, the resulted superhydrophobic surfaces can promote the formation of highly mobile droplets in the Cassie states. More interestingly, it has been demonstrated that on such micro/nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces small microdroplets can undergo coalescence-induced droplet jumping due to the release of excess surface energy (Figure 8a), which is independent of gravity [75, 76, 83, 84]. Jumping droplets have been shown to enhance dropwise condensation through accelerating surface refreshing and reducing time-averaged droplet thermal resistance on the surface [22, 66, 86, 87]. Different from the wetting states of the injected droplets on a superhydrophobic surface, such as the millimeter-scale raindrops that are much larger than the micro/nanoscale structure features of lotus leaves, vapor condensation starts with the formation of nanoscale droplets, which can result in loss of non-wettability and flooding phenomenon on micro/nanostructured surfaces. Various droplet wetting modes (Figure 8b), for example, Wenzel state, Cassie state, and partially wetting state, have been observed on the superhydrophobic surface [85, 88]. Moreover, the wetting transition of condensed droplets can cause a large degradation of heat transfer performance [22, 89]. A considerable amount of work has focused on understanding the effect of surface structure and wettability on wetting transition with a variety of explanations including surface free energy models [88, 90, 91], Laplace pressure instabilities [92, 93, 94], and thermodynamic models [95, 96].
Figure 8c–i shows that the condensation mode transitions from jumping droplet condensation to flooding condensation on a nanostructured superhydrophobic surface as the surface subcooling increases from 0.3 to 3 K [24]. To illustrate the mechanism of wetting transition, a spatial confinement effect on the droplet nucleation was proposed to explain the wetting states of condensed droplets under different surface subcooling. Condensation begins with nucleation with the formation of nanoscale condensed droplets, with the diameter of several nanometers at large subcooling to hundreds of nanometers at small subcooling. Besides, the nucleation site density is inversely proportional to the critical droplet nucleation radius,
To delay the occurrence of flooding for achieving stable jumping droplets, various superhydrophobic surfaces with closely spaced nanostructures (Figure 9a) have been recently proposed to spatially control nucleation [65, 98, 99]. Minimizing the spacings using high-aspect ratio nanowires can promote to obtain a vapor density difference between the inside and outside of the nanoscale spacing. By this strategy of controlling vapor density, the closely spaced nanowires have been demonstrated to mitigate droplet nucleation in the spacing with a larger energy barrier compared with the top surface of nanowires. The formation of mobile droplets in suspended or partially wetting states is favored for jumping droplet condensation. Compared to the droplet sliding on a plain hydrophobic surface driven by gravity (Figure 9b), droplets on the superhydrophobic nanowired surface can be efficiently removed by efficient jumping (Figure 9c) at a small surface subcooling of 2 K. The enhanced condensation heat flux and heat transfer coefficient on the straight nanowired surfaces as a function of surface subcooling have been experimentally demonstrated compared with conventional dropwise condensation on the plain hydrophobic surface (Figure 9f,g). However, condensation heat flux reaches its maximum as surface subcooling increases to 6 K and then slightly reduces as surface subcooling is increased to 15 K. Further increase of surface subcooling can increase heat flux monotonically with a similar trend as dropwise condensation on the plain hydrophobic surface. Subsequently, a hierarchical superhydrophobic surface with micro-patterned copper nanowire arrays was developed to improve droplet dynamics [21]. Micro-valleys, consisting of short nanowire arrays between long nanowire arrays, were fabricated to enable spontaneous droplet movement during droplet growing process. For the droplets formed in the micro-valleys, they can rapidly grow on the short nanowire arrays to a critical size where the droplet dimension is comparable to micro-valleys. Further growth of these droplets can push droplet out from the micro-valleys with a Laplace pressure difference between the bottom and top of the droplet, which accelerates droplet re-nucleation and growth.
Although the range of surface subcooling for jumping droplet condensation has been extended by the spatial control of nucleation using the closely arranged nanowires, droplet wetting transition still occurs on both the uniform and hierarchical nanowired surfaces (Figure 9c,d) with the increase of the surface subcooling, resulting in the heat transfer degradation [21, 65]. This is because the active nucleation size decreases with the increase of surface subcooling while the straight nanowires tend to agglomerate and form a large number of micro-defects on the surface in fabrication processes [65, 73]. For condensation on such structured surfaces, vapor prefers to nucleate first in the micro-defects with a smaller energy barrier, resulting in the formation of large pinned droplets and flooding phenomenon [67, 68]. To avoid the agglomeration of straight nanowires, a 3D copper nanowire network fabricated has recently been demonstrated to eliminate the micro-defects between nanowires [71]. Benefiting from the interconnections between the nanowires, the surface morphology of the 3D nanowire network appears to be homogeneous without micro-defects. Compared to the droplet wetting transition on the uniform and hierarchical nanowired surfaces (Figure 9c,d), sustainable droplet jumping phenomena is obtained on the superhydrophobic surface with 3D nanowire networks even at a large surface subcooling of 28 K (Figure 9e). Benefiting from the formation of suspended and partially wetting droplets, a significant enhancement in heat transfer is realized on the 3D nanowire networks throughout the wide range of surface subcooling experimented (Figure 9f,g).
6. Potential strategies for condensation enhancement
In addition to the condensation enhancement on the superhydrophobic surfaces as mentioned above, several other potential strategies and surfaces have recently been proposed to enhance condensation by manipulating droplet behaviors [5, 27, 28, 30, 69, 72, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105]. For example, a hybrid structured surface with wettability contrast was proposed to spatially control nucleation, where droplets preferentially form on the hydrophilic region [27]. By confining the hydrophilic regions on the top of the micropillars that are surrounded by superhydrophobic nanowires, such a hybrid surface can achieve both efficient droplet nucleation and jumping removal. Similar design of hybrid micro/nanostructured surfaces with wetting contrast can be found in the literature [69, 106, 107]. The slippery liquid-infused porous surface has been widely studied to promote droplet mobility [5, 28, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112]. A hydrophilic directional slippery rough surface was recently fabricated to improve droplet nucleation and removal [5]. Such surface consists of nanotextured directional microgrooves in which the nanotextures alone are infused with hydrophilic liquid lubricant. The surface has hydrophilic surface chemistry, a slippery interface, directional structures, and large surface areas for droplet nucleation and motion. Further experimentation under atmospheric pressure and pure vapor are needed to elucidate the condensation enhancement. Recently, another strategy was presented to enable thin film condensation on a porous superhydrophilic surface with a hydrophobic coating as a nucleation deterrent and energy barrier for the liquid film to propagate above the surface [101, 113, 114]. Further experimental demonstration of heat transfer enhancement of such thin film condensation is needed. It is noted that most of the surfaces mentioned above require precision fabrication, which is difficult to scale up cost-effectively to meet the large area applications.
Some emerging strategies and surface design provide the potential to achieve condensation enhancement by using macrotextures or low-cost commercial materials [72, 100, 103, 104, 115, 116, 117]. The plain hybrid surfaces, consisting of plain hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions, were proposed to achieve dropwise-filmwise condensation for reducing the droplet departure size [23, 100, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123]. On such a hybrid surface (Figure 10a), the growing droplets in the hydrophobic regions are removed when they grow large enough to contact with the liquid film in the hydrophilic regions, resulting in a smaller removal size than that of gravity-driven departure. Another attempt in coupling droplets with a liquid film for enhanced condensation was recently reported on a hierarchical mesh-covered surface [72]. The typical structural feature of the hierarchical mesh-covered surface is composed of an interweaving microchannel network between a superhydrophobic woven mesh layer and a flat substrate, and a large number of micropores among mesh wires (Figure 10b). Vapor permeates freely through the mesh layer and condenses on the substrate to form a thin liquid condensate film that is confined in the interconnected channel network. When the condensate film grows out of the micropores due to the increased condensation heat flux, the surrounding liquid condensate can be drained out by the liquid film flow and eventually leaves the superhydrophobic hierarchical mesh-covered surface in the form of gravity-driven falling droplets. The thin liquid film in the interweaving microchannel network not only provides efficient low-thermal resistance condensation interfaces but also continuously transports liquid condensate to be drained out from the substrate.
When the NCG presences in water vapor, condensation performance is highly dependent on the initial nucleation and mass transfer of vapor molecules in the diffusion layer near the condensing surface [103, 124, 125]. A hydrophilic copper surface with interval fluorocarbon-coated hydrophobic bumps to enable falling droplet-enhanced filmwise condensation (Figure 10c). Due to the decreased nucleation energy barrier on the hydrophilic regions, water vapor can rapidly nucleate, grow, and form a thin liquid film on the vertical surface. To prevent continuous thickness growth of condensate liquid film along the vertical tube, interval hydrophobic bumps are designed to remove liquid film periodically, which is enabled by the reduction of surface adhesion for condensate liquid on the hydrophobic bumps. More importantly, the condensate liquid departing from the hydrophobic bumps in the form of falling droplets can strongly disturb the NCG diffusion boundary layer. High-performance condensation heat transfer in the presence of NCG was experimentally demonstrated on the vertical hydrophilic copper tube with hydrophobic fluorocarbon-coated bumps, which is better than both the conventional filmwise and dropwise condensation while avoiding the durability issues of ultrathin hydrophobic coatings. Recently, a structured surface with macrogroove arrays was proposed to improve droplet jumping dynamics in the presence of NCG by coupling rapid droplet growth and efficient droplet jumping relay (Figure 10d) [104]. The droplets formed on top of the cones and the bottom of the grooves play different roles during condensation process. Specifically, the cones can promote droplet formation and growth by breaking through the limitation of NCG layer. The droplets with higher mobility can be formed on the bottom of the grooves, resulting in series of coalescence-induced droplet jumping. Such a droplet jumping relay can enable a considerable vibration to trigger the jumping removal of droplets on top of the cones.
7. Summary
This chapter reviewed the recent advances in the fundamental understanding and performance enhancement of dropwise condensation by dancing droplets, as well as some other emerging enhancement strategies and surface design. Various micro/nanostructured surfaces, along with functional wetting coatings, have been developed with designed morphology for diverse surface features. Addressing the intrinsic requirements on multiple length scales in the nucleation, growth, merge/coalescence and departure of the dynamic droplets, unprecedented enhancement in heat transfer performance has been demonstrated for dropwise condensation processes.
An efficient condensing surface should enable both rapid droplet growth and frequent surface refreshing. Due to the excellent surface refreshing capability, jumping droplet condensation on the superhydrophobic surfaces is one of the most active research areas over the last decade on enhancing condensation heat transfer. However, as surface subcooling increases, the mobile droplets in the suspended Cassie state can transition to the highly pinned Wentzel state due to the nucleation occurring within the structures, resulting in the flooding phenomenon and performance degradation. By decreasing the structure scale to be comparable with critical nucleation size, superhydrophobic surfaces with closely spaced nanowires have been demonstrated to minimize droplet nucleation within the structures and to promote the formation of mobile droplets on the surface. On such a nanowired surface, excellent water repellency has been demonstrated to enable efficient jumping droplets without flooding phenomenon, even at a large surface subcooling. A significant enhancement in heat transfer was also achieved under a very wide range of surface subcooling experimented. In addition to the superhydrophobic nanowired surfaces, several other strategies have also been proposed to enhance condensation processes, for example, improving droplet nucleation and jumping by designing hydrophilic patterns on the superhydrophobic surfaces, accelerating droplet removal through liquid film sucking on the hybrid surfaces with hydrophilic and hydrophobic strips, promoting thin film condensation using hybrid nanostructured surfaces, enhancing droplet mobility and transport using slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces, and improving liquid condensate removal using hierarchical mesh-covered surfaces.
Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge the continuous support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51836002, 51706031, and 51236002), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. DUT20RC(3)016), and thank their collaborators who made important contributions to the work reviewed in this chapter including Ronggui Yang, Zhong Lan, Yung-Cheng Lee, Benli Peng, Wei Xu, Sifang Wang.
Nomenclature
diffusion constant nucleation energy, J latent heat of vaporization, J/kg nucleation rate kinetic constant Boltzmann constant droplet population density, m−3 vapor pressure, Pa saturation pressure, Pa heat transfer through individual droplet, W heat flux, W/m2 surface roughness minimum droplet nucleation radius, m droplet departure radius, m Schmidt number temperature, K surface subcooling, K free-stream velocity, m/s mass transfer flux, mol/m2 contact angle, ° advancing contact angle, ° contact angle of Cassie droplet, ° receding contact angle, ° contact angle of Wenzel droplet, ° contact angle hysteresis, ° solid fraction liquid-vapor interfacial tension, N/m solid-vapor interfacial tension, N/m solid-liquid interfacial tension, N/m kinematic viscosity, N s/m2 liquid density, kg/m3 thickness of boundary layer, m
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