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  2. Critical heat flux - Wikipedia

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    The critical heat flux depends strongly on pressure. At low pressures (including atmospheric pressure), the pressure dependence is mainly through the change in vapor density leading to an increase in the critical heat flux with pressure. However, as pressures approach the critical pressure, both the surface tension and the heat of vaporization ...

  3. Enthalpy of vaporization - Wikipedia

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    Temperature-dependency of the heats of vaporization for water, methanol, benzene, and acetone. In thermodynamics, the enthalpy of vaporization (symbol ∆H vap), also known as the (latent) heat of vaporization or heat of evaporation, is the amount of energy that must be added to a liquid substance to transform a quantity of that substance into a gas.

  4. Droplet vaporization - Wikipedia

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    is the heat flux from the gas to the droplet surface (J.s −1) is the latent heat of evaporation of the species considered (J.kg −1) Analytical expressions for the droplet vaporization rate, ˙, and for the heat flux are now derived. A single, pure, component droplet is considered and the gas phase is assumed to behave as an ideal gas.

  5. Heat of combustion - Wikipedia

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    Heat of combustion. The heating value (or energy value or calorific value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it. The calorific value is the total energy released as heat when a substance undergoes complete combustion with oxygen under standard ...

  6. Vaporization - Wikipedia

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    Vaporization. Vaporization (or vapo (u)risation) of an element or compound is a phase transition from the liquid phase to vapor. [1] There are two types of vaporization: evaporation and boiling. Evaporation is a surface phenomenon, whereas boiling is a bulk phenomenon (a phenomenon in which the whole object or substance is involved in the process).

  7. Hawking radiation - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Hawking radiation is the theoretical thermal black-body radiation released outside a black hole 's event horizon. This is counterintuitive because once ordinary electromagnetic radiation is inside the event horizon, it cannot escape. It is named after the physicist Stephen Hawking, who developed a theoretical argument for its existence in ...

  8. Volatility (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, volatility is a material quality which describes how readily a substance vaporizes. At a given temperature and pressure, a substance with high volatility is more likely to exist as a vapour, while a substance with low volatility is more likely to be a liquid or solid. Volatility can also describe the tendency of a vapor to ...

  9. Multiple-effect evaporator - Wikipedia

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    Condensing vapors from flash tank B1 heat evaporator A2. In chemical engineering, a multiple-effect evaporator is an apparatus for efficiently using the heat from steam to evaporate water. [1] Water is boiled in a sequence of vessels, each held at a lower pressure than the last. Because the boiling temperature of water decreases as pressure ...