Pool Boiling of FC-72 and HFE-7100

1999 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. W. Liu ◽  
W. W. Lin ◽  
D. J. Lee ◽  
X. F. Peng

This work reported the boiling characteristics of FC-72 and HFE-7100 at atmospheric pressure and at a liquid subcooling of 0–20 K. The FC-72 exhibits a more efficient nucleate boiling mode and a higher critical heat flux (CHF) than the HFE-7100. For film boiling mode, HFE-7100 becomes more efficient.

Author(s):  
Muhamad Zuhairi Sulaiman ◽  
Masahiro Takamura ◽  
Kazuki Nakahashi ◽  
Tomio Okawa

Boiling heat transfer (BHT) and critical heat flux (CHF) performance were experimentally studied for saturated pool boiling of water-based nanofluids. In present experimental works, copper heaters of 20 mm diameter with titanium-oxide (TiO2) nanocoated surface were produced in pool boiling of nanofluid. Experiments were performed in both upward and downward facing nanofluid coated heater surface. TiO2 nanoparticle was used with concentration ranging from 0.004 until 0.4 kg/m3 and boiling time of tb = 1, 3, 10, 20, 40, and 60 mins. Distilled water was used to observed BHT and CHF performance of different nanofluids boiling time and concentration configurations. Nucleate boiling heat transfer observed to deteriorate in upward facing heater, however; in contrast effect of enhancement for downward. Maximum enhancements of CHF for upward- and downward-facing heater are 2.1 and 1.9 times, respectively. Reduction of mean contact angle demonstrate enhancement on the critical heat flux for both upward-facing and downward-facing heater configuration. However, nucleate boiling heat transfer shows inconsistency in similar concentration with sequence of boiling time. For both downward- and upward-facing nanocoated heater's BHT and CHF, the optimum configuration denotes by C = 400 kg/m3 with tb = 1 min which shows the best increment of boiling curve trend with lowest wall superheat ΔT = 25 K and critical heat flux enhancement of 2.02 times.


Author(s):  
Bao H. Truong

Nanofluids are engineered colloids composed of nano-size particles dispersed in common fluids such as water or refrigerants. Using an electrically controlled wire heater, pool boiling Critical Heat Flux (CHF) of Alumina and Silica water-based nanofluids of concentration less than or equal to 0.1 percent by volume were measured. Silica nanofluids showed a CHF enhancement up to 68% and there seems to be a monotonic relationship between the nanoparticle concentration and the magnitude of enhancement. Alumina nanofluids had a CHF enhancement up to 56% but the peak occurred at the intermediate concentration. The boiling curves in nanofluid were found to shift to the left of that of water and correspond to higher nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficients in the two-phase flow regime. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images show a porous coating layer of nanoparticles on wires subjected to nanofluid CHF tests. These coating layers change the morphology of the heater’s surface, and are responsible for the CHF enhancement. The thickness of the coating was estimated using SEM and was found ranging from 3.0 to 6.0 micrometers for Alumina, and 3.0 to 15.0 micrometers for Silica.


2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Sathyamurthi ◽  
H-S. Ahn ◽  
D. Banerjee ◽  
S. C. Lau

Pool boiling experiments were conducted with three horizontal, flat, silicon surfaces, two of which were coated with vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). The two wafers were coated with MWCNT of two different thicknesses: 9 μm (Type-A) and 25 μm (Type-B). Experiments were conducted for the nucleate boiling and film boiling regimes for saturated and subcooled conditions with liquid subcooling of 0–30°C using a dielectric fluorocarbon liquid (PF-5060) as test fluid. The pool boiling heat flux data obtained from the bare silicon test surface were used as a base line for all heat transfer comparisons. Type-B MWCNT coatings enhanced the critical heat flux (CHF) in saturated nucleate boiling by 58%. The heat flux at the Leidenfrost point was enhanced by a maximum of ∼150% (i.e., 2.5 times) at 10°C subcooling. Type-A MWCNT enhanced the CHF in nucleate boiling by as much as 62%. Both Type-A MWCNT and bare silicon test surfaces showed similar heat transfer rates (within the bounds of experimental uncertainty) in film boiling. The Leidenfrost points on the boiling curve for Type-A MWCNT occurred at higher wall superheats. The percentage enhancements in the value of heat flux at the CHF condition decreased with an increase in liquid subcooling. However the enhancement in heat flux at the Leidenfrost points for the nanotube coated surfaces increased with liquid subcooling. Significantly higher bubble nucleation rates were observed for both nanotube coated surfaces.


2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyungdae Kim ◽  
Ho Seon Ahn ◽  
Moo Hwan Kim

The pool boiling characteristics of water-based nanofluids with alumina and titania nanoparticles of 0.01 vol % were investigated on a thermally heated disk heater at saturated temperature and atmospheric pressure. The results confirmed the findings of previous studies that nanofluids can significantly enhance the critical heat flux (CHF), resulting in a large increase in the wall superheat. It was found that some nanoparticles deposit on the heater surface during nucleate boiling, and the surface modification due to the deposition results in the same magnitude of CHF enhancement in pure water as for nanofluids. Subsequent to the boiling experiments, the interfacial properties of the heater surfaces were examined using dynamic wetting of an evaporating water droplet. As the surface temperature increased, the evaporating meniscus on the clean surface suddenly receded toward the liquid due to the evaporation recoil force on the liquid-vapor interface, but the nanoparticle-fouled surface exhibited stable wetting of the liquid meniscus even at a remarkably higher wall superheat. The heat flux gain attainable due to the improved wetting of the evaporating meniscus on the fouled surface showed good agreement with the CHF enhancement during nanofluid boiling. It is supposed that the nanoparticle layer increases the stability of the evaporating microlayer underneath a bubble growing on a heated surface and thus the irreversible growth of a hot/dry spot is inhibited even at a high wall superheat, resulting in the CHF enhancement observed when boiling nanofluids.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijaykumar Sathyamurthi ◽  
Debjyoti Banerjee

Subcooled pool boiling experiments are conducted at subcooling levels of 10 °C on a thin silicon disk (∼ 400μm thickn, 3 – inch diameter) with in situ micro-machined K-type thin film thermocouples (TFT) using a perfluorocarbon liquid refrigerant (PF-5060) with a boiling point of 56 °C. The experimental apparatus is of constant heat flux type. Surface temperature (from TFT) and heat flux data is obtained at each steady state condition to generate the pool boiling curve. The time – delay embedding technique is used to re-construct higher dimensional vectors with the optimal delay being estimated from the first minimum of mutual information. The correlation dimension measure is then estimated from the delay re – constructed phase space vectors. In this preliminary study correlation dimension measures are seen to vary from ∼ 12 in nucleate boiling, to ∼ 7 – 9 near Critical Heat Flux (CHF) condition, and ∼ 7 – 8 in film boiling. The results suggest that the attractors underlying thermal transport mechanisms in nucleate boiling are affected by a greater number of parameters than that at CHF. The dimension of the attractor is reduced further in the film boiling regime.


2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
P. M. Carrica ◽  
V. Masson

We present the results of an experimental study of the effects of externally imposed electric fields on boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux (CHF) in dielectric fluids. The study comprises the analysis of geometries that, under the effects of electric fields, cause the bubbles either to be pushed toward the heater or away from it. A local phase detection probe was used to measure the void fraction and the interfacial impact rate near the heater. It was found that the critical heat flux can be either augmented or reduced with the application of an electric field, depending on the direction of . In addition, the heat transfer can be slightly enhanced or degraded depending on the heat flux. The study of the two-phase flow in nucleate boiling, only for the case of favorable dielectrophoretic forces, reveals that the application of an electric field reduces the bubble detection time and increases the detachment frequency. It also shows that the two-phase flow characteristics of the second film boiling regime resemble more a nucleate boiling regime than a film boiling regime.


1964 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Vliet ◽  
G. Leppert

Empirical data are presented which show the effects of diameter, water velocity, and subcooling on the critical heat flux from an electrically heated, cylindrical lube or wire. The maximum flux which can be accommodated in subcooled nucleate boiling is found to vary directly with the water velocity and subcooling and inversely with a fractional power of the heater diameter. The exponent which describes the diameter dependence is itself a function of both velocity and subcooling. Measurements of the critical flux are reported for water at atmospheric pressure over a range of subcooling from 3 to 100 deg F, velocity from 0.5 to 11 ft/sec, and heater diameter from 0.010 to 0.189 in. Visual and photographic observations indicate a marked effect of subcooling on the flow mechanism near the critical heat flux. High subcooling prevents the formation of the vapor cavity which was described in the previous paper [1] for nearly saturated water, although the failure of nucleate boiling still occurs at the rear of the cylinder and is accompanied by a concentration of vapor in that region.


Author(s):  
Steve Strepek ◽  
Richard H. S. Winterton ◽  
Marc Wiseman ◽  
Chris Nelson

With higher power ratings in automotive cooling systems the correct calculation of the heat transfer coefficient when nucleate boiling is occurring has become important. In accounting for the enhanced cooling that nucleate boiling provides, analysts can achieve two goals: more accurate metal temperature prediction at local hot spots; and an assessment of the probability that catastrophic film boiling will occur. Two correlations examined: the classic Chen correlation and the more recent Liu and Winterton correlation. The method of extending the correlations to mixtures is explained. Predictions are presented for the 50:50 mixture of water and ethylene glycol, and compared with literature data. The method of incorporating these correlations into engine CAE analysis is explained and demonstrated. The paper also considers the effect of nucleate boiling on vapor production, leading to vapor blanketing and the critical heat flux. A method of estimating critical heat flux for the mixture is described.


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