Direct-Contact Heat Transfer - Kreith, Frank; Boehm, R. F. (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1988)
to increase the use of direct contact processes, the National Science Foundation supported a workshop on direct contact heat transfer at the Solar Energy Research Institute in the summer of 1985. We served as organizers for this workshop, which emphasized an area of thermal engineering that, in our opinion, has great promise for the future, but has not yet reached the point of wide-spread commercial application. Hence, a summary of the state of knowledge at this point is timely. The workshop had a dual objective: 1. To summarize the current state of knowledge in such a form that industrial practitioners can make use of the available information. 2. To indicate the research and development needed to advance the state-of-the-art, indicating not only what kind of research is needed, but also the industrial potential that could be realized if the information to be obtained through the proposed research activities were available