Research on the electromagnetic anti-fouling technology for heat transfer enhancement

An innovative electromagnetic anti-fouling (EAF) technology was developed for heat transfer enhancement. A series of experiments with and without an EAF device were performed to find out the mechanism of heat transfer enhancement of the proposed technology. In the experiments, the variation of the fouling thermal resistance vs. time were measured and the scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrographs of the fouling layers were taken. The effects of EAF device at different temperature range were clarified.