scholarly journals Flow boiling heat transfer characteristics of hexafluoroethane in a horizontal tube

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Wang ◽  
Maoqiong Gong ◽  
G. F. Chen ◽  
J. F. Wu ◽  
Zhaohu Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Horizontal Tube ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer

scholarly journals Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics in Horizontal, Three-Dimensional Enhanced Tubes

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Chuan Sun ◽  
Xiang Ma ◽  
Lian-Xiang Ma ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
David Kukulka
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Tube Length ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Developed Surface ◽  
Enhanced Tubes ◽  
Surface Patterns

An experimental investigation was conducted to explore the flow boiling heat transfer characteristics of refrigerants R134A and R410A inside a smooth tube, as well as inside two newly developed surface-enhanced tubes. The internal surface structures of the two enhanced tubes are comprised of protrusions/dimples and petal-shaped bumps/cavities. The equivalent inner diameter of all tested tubes is 11.5 mm, and the tube length is 2 m. The experimental test conditions included saturation temperatures of 6 °C and 10 °C; mass velocities ranging from 70 to 200 kg/(m2s); and heat fluxes ranging from 10 to 35 kW/m2, with inlet and outlet vapor quality of 0.2 and 0.8. It was observed that the enhanced tubes exhibit excellent flow boiling heat transfer performance. This can be attributed to the complex surface patterns of dimples and petal arrays that increase the active heat transfer area; in addition, more nucleation sites are produced, and there is also an increased interfacial turbulence. Results showed that the boiling heat transfer coefficient of the enhanced surface tubes was 1.15–1.66 times that of the smooth tubing. Also, effects of the flow pattern and saturated temperature are discussed. Finally, a comparison of several existing flow boiling heat transfer models using the data from the current study is presented.

A Fundamental View of the Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics of Nano-Refrigerants

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Cremaschi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Liquid Phase ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer

Driven by higher energy efficiency targets and industrial needs of process intensification and miniaturization, nanofluids have been proposed in energy conversion, power generation, chemical, electronic cooling, biological, and environmental systems. In space conditioning and in cooling systems for high power density electronics, vapor compression cycles provide cooling. The working fluid is a refrigerant and oil mixture. A small amount of lubricating oil is needed to lubricate and to seal the sliding parts of the compressors. In heat exchangers the oil in excess penalizes the heat transfer and increases the flow losses: both effects are highly undesired but yet unavoidable. This paper studies the heat transfer characteristics of nanorefrigerants, a new class of nanofluids defined as refrigerant and lubricant mixtures in which nano-size particles are dispersed in the high-viscosity liquid phase. The heat transfer coefficient is strongly governed by the viscous film excess layer that resides at the wall surface. In the state-of-the-art knowledge, while nanoparticles in the refrigerant and lubricant mixtures were recently experimentally studied and yielded convective in-tube flow boiling heat transfer enhancements by as much as 101%, the interactions of nanoparticles with the mixture still pose several open questions. The model developed in this work suggested that the nanoparticles in this excess layer generate a micro-convective mass flux transverse to the flow direction that augments the thermal energy transport within the oil film in addition to the macroscopic heat conduction and fluid convection effects. The nanoparticles motion in the shearing-induced and non-uniform shear rate field is added to the motion of the nanoparticles due to their own Brownian diffusion. The augmentation of the liquid phase thermal conductivity was predicted by the developed model but alone it did not fully explain the intensification on the two-phase flow boiling heat transfer coefficient reported in previous work in the literature. Thus, additional nano- and micro-scale heat transfer intensification mechanisms were proposed.

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