A Film Boiling Study of Ethanol Pyrolysis

This paper reports a study of ethanol pyrolysis (C2H5OH, EtOH) by film boiling at temperatures ranging from 600 to 1500 K. The reactor space is created in a self-assembled manner by first bringing EtOH to a boil on the surface of a horizontal tube submerged in a pool of EtOH and then increasing the power to the tube in steps to force transitioning the boiling regimes through nucleate boiling, the critical heat flux state, and finally film...