Nucleate Boiling Characteristics of R-113 in a Small Tube Bundle

1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Marto ◽  
C. L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Tube Bundle ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Average Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Average Heat

Heat transfer measurements were made during nucleate boiling of R-113 from a bundle of 15 electrically heated, smooth copper tubes arranged in an equilateral triangular pitch. The bundle was designed to simulate a portion of a refrigeration system flooded-tube evaporator. The outside diameter of the tubes was 15.9 mm, and the tube pitch was 19.1 mm. Five of the tubes that were oriented in a vertical array on the centerline of the bundle were each instrumented with six wall thermocouples to obtain an average wall temperature and a resultant average heat transfer coefficient. All tests were performed at atmospheric pressure. The majority of the data were obtained with increasing heat flux to study the onset of nucleate boiling and the influence of surface “history” upon boiling heat transfer. Data taken during increasing heat flux showed that incipient boiling was dependent upon the number of tubes in operation. The operation of lower tubes in the bundle decreased the incipient boiling heat flux and wall superheat of the upper tubes, and generally increased the boiling heat transfer coefficients of the upper tubes at low heat fluxes where natural convection effects are important. The boiling data confirmed that the average heat transfer coefficient for a smooth-tube bundle is larger than obtained for a single tube.

Concerning the Effect of Surface Material on Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer of R-113

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Hosseini ◽  
A. Gholaminejad ◽  
Mahdi Nabil ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Samadinia
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Surface Material ◽  
Effect Of Surface

This paper presents results of an experimental investigation carried out to determine the effects of surface material on nucleate pool boiling heat transfer of refrigerant R113. Experiments were performed on horizontal circular plates of brass, copper and aluminum. The heat transfer coefficient was evaluated by measuring wall superheat and effective heat flux removed by boiling. The experiments were carried out in the heat flux range of 8 to 200kW/m2. The obtained results have shown significant effect of surface material, with copper providing the highest heat transfer coefficient among the samples, and aluminum the least. There was negligible difference at low heat fluxes, but copper showed 23% better performance at high heat fluxes than aluminum and 18% better than brass.

On the Scalability of Liquid Microjet Array Impingement Cooling for Large Area Systems

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Avijit Bhunia ◽  
C. L. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat Source ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
Average Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Impingement Cooling ◽  
Average Heat

The necessity for an efficient thermal management system covering large areas is growing rapidly with the push toward more electric systems. A significant amount of research over the past 2 decades has conclusively proved the suitability of jet, droplet, or spray impingement for high heat flux cooling. However, all these research consider small heat source areas, typically about a few cm2. Can a large array of impingement pattern, covering a much wider area, achieve similar heat flux levels? This article presents liquid microjet array impingement cooling of a heat source that is about two orders of magnitude larger than studied in the previous works. Experiments are carried out with 441 jets of de-ionized water and a dielectric liquid HFE7200, each 200 μm diameter. The jets impinge on a 189 cm2 area surface, in free surface and confined jet configurations. The average heat transfer coefficient values of the present experiment are compared with correlations from the literature. While some correlations show excellent agreement, others deviate significantly. The ensuing discussion suggests that the post-impingement liquid dynamics, particularly the collision between the liquid fronts on the surface created from surrounding jets, is the most important criterion dictating the average heat transfer coefficient. Thus, similar thermal performance can be achieved, irrespective of the length scale, as long as the flow dynamics are similar. These results prove the scalability of the liquid microjet array impingement technique for cooling a few cm2 area to a few hundred cm2 area.

Oil Effects on In-Tube Evaporation of CO2 by Altering Flow Regime and Properties

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pega Hrnjak ◽  
Seongho Kim
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Circulation Rate ◽  
Convective Boiling ◽  
Mass Fluxes

Flow boiling heat transfer characteristics of CO2 with and without oil were investigated experimentally in horizontal smooth and enhanced tubes with an inner diameter of 11.2 mm. The visualization of flow pattern provides a detailed attributes of the nucleate and the convective boiling heat transfer. In order to investigate the effect of the miscible oil on the heat transfer of CO2, POE (polyolester) RENSIO C85E oil is added to give an oil circulation rate (OCR) between 0.5% and 2%. Results are compared with those of pure CO2. The experimental conditions include evaporation temperatures of −15 °C, mass fluxes from 40 to 200 kg/m2 s, heat fluxes from 0.5 to 10 kW/m2, and vapor qualities from 0.1 to 0.8. Oil generally deteriorates the heat transfer coefficient of pure CO2. The reduction in heat transfer coefficient is most apparent at low vapor qualities, 0.1 to 0.4, and at low mass fluxes, 100 and 200 kg/m2. It is caused by the suppression of nucleate boiling due to increased surface tension. At conditions where the convective boiling contribution is dominant, vapor qualities above 0.5, oil increases heat transfer coefficients. Through visualization, it is shown that the wetted area on the perimeter of inner tube is enhanced due to formation of foaming in the smooth tube. However, such enhancement of heat transfer due to forming is negligible in the enhanced tube, because the enhanced factor due to micro-finned structures is dominant.

Effect of Heat Flux on Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement (Numerical Investigation Approach)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Mogaji ◽  
O. A. Sogbesan ◽  
Tien-Chien Jen
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat Transfer Enhancement ◽  
Numerical Investigation ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Transfer Enhancement

Abstract This study presents numerical investigation results of heat flux effect on pool boiling heat transfer enhancement during nucleate boiling heat transfer of water. The simulation was performed for five different heated surfaces such as: brass, copper, mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum using ANSYS simulation software at 1 atmospheric pressure. The samples were heated in a domain developed for bubble growth during nucleate boiling process under the same operational condition of applied heat flux ranged from 100 to 1000 kW/m2 and their corresponding heat transfer coefficient was obtained numerically. Obtained experimental data of other authors from the open literature result is in close agreement with the simulated data, thus confirming the validity of the CFD simulation method used in this study. It is found that heat transfer coefficient increases with increasing heat flux. The results revealed that in comparison to other materials tested, better heat transfer performance up to 38.5% and 7.11% is observed for aluminum and brass at lower superheated temperature difference conditions of 6.96K and 14.01K respectively. This behavior indicates better bubble development and detachment capability of these heating surface materials and could be used in improving the performance of thermal devices toward producing compact and miniaturized equipment.

Nucleate Pool Boiling of a TURBO-B Bundle in R-113

1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 670-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Memory ◽  
S. V. Chilman ◽  
P. J. Marto
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Tube Bundle ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Smooth Tube ◽  
Vertical Array ◽  
Wall Superheat

Heat transfer measurements were made during nucleate boiling of R-113 from a bundle of 15 electrically heated, copper TURBO-B tubes arranged in an equilateral triangular pitch, designed to simulate a portion of a flooded evaporator. Five of the tubes that were oriented in a vertical array on the centerline of the bundle were each instrumented with six wall thermocouples. For increasing heat flux, the incipient boiling wall superheat of upper tubes decreased as lower tubes were activated. In the boiling region at low heat fluxes (≈ 1 kW/m2), the average bundle heat transfer coefficient was 4.6 times that obtained for a smooth tube bundle (under identical conditions) and 1.6 times greater than that obtained for a single TURBO-B tube; a similar bundle factor has been reported for a smooth tube bundle. At high heat fluxes (100 kW/m2), the average bundle heat transfer coefficient was 3.6 times that of a smooth tube bundle. Furthermore, there was still a significant bundle factor (1.22), contrary to a smooth tube bundle, where all effect of lower tubes was eliminated at high heat fluxes.

Effects of Heater Material and Surface Orientation on Heat Transfer Coefficient and Critical Heat Flux of Nucleate Boiling

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Mei ◽  
Yechen Zhu ◽  
Botao Zhang ◽  
Shengjie Gong ◽  
Hanyang Gu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Orientation Angle ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Copper Surface ◽  
Surface Orientation ◽  
Reactor Vessel

External reactor vessel cooling (ERVC) is the key technology for In-Vessel Retention (IVR) to ensure the safety of a nuclear power plant (NPP) under severe accident conditions. The thermal margin of nucleate boiling heat transfer on the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) lower head is important for ERVC and of wide concern to researchers. In such boiling heat transfer processes, the reactor vessel wall inclination effect on the heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and critical heat flux (CHF) should be considered. In this study, experiments were performed to investigate the effects of heater material and surface orientation on the HTC and CHF of nucleate boiling. Copper and stainless steel (SS) surfaces were used to perform boiling tests under atmosphere pressure. The orientation angle of both boiling surfaces were varied between 0° (upward) and 180° (downward). The experimental results show that the surface orientation effects on the HTC is slight for both the copper surface and the SS surface. In addition, the relationship of measured CHF values with the inclination angles was obtained and it shows that the CHF value changes little as the inclination angle increases from 0° to 120° but it decreases rapidly as the orientation angle increases towards 180° for both boiling surfaces. The material effect on CHF is also observed and the copper surface has higher CHF value than the SS surface. Based on the experimental data, a correlation for CHF prediction is developed which includes both the surface orientation effect and the heater material effect.

The effect of surfactant concentrations and surface material on heat transfer coefficient in nucleate boiling regime

Kerntechnik ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 365-374
Author(s):  
A. M. Refaey ◽  
S. Elnaggar ◽  
S. H. Abdel-Latif ◽  
A. Hamza
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Surfactant Solution ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase

Abstract The nucleate boiling regime and two-phase flow are greater importance to the safety analysis of nuclear reactors. In this study, the boiling heat transfer in nuclear reactor is numerical investigated. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, ANSYS Fluent 17.2 is used and the boiling model is employed. The numerical predictions obtained are compared with the experimental data reported by A. Hamza et al. [9]. An experimental test rig is designed and constructed to investigate the effect of cooling water chemistry control and the material of heater surface. CFD software, allows the detailed analysis of the two-phase flow and heat transfer. In this paper, we evaluate the accuracy of the boiling model implemented in the ANSYS Fluent code. This model is based on the heat flux partitioning approach and accommodates the heat flux due to single-phase convection, quenching and evaporation. The validation carried out of surfactant fluid/vapor two-phase flow inside the 2-D cylindrical boiling vessel. A heated horizontal pipe with stainless steel, Aluminum, and Zircalloy surface materials are used to numerically predict the field temperature and void fraction. Different surfactant concentrations ranging from 0, (pure water) to 1500 ppm, and heat fluxes ranging from 31 to 110 kW/m2 are used. The results of the predicted model depict that the addition of SDS Surfactant and increasing the heat flux improves the coefficient of boiling heat transfer for a given concentration. Also, it was found that the increasing of the concentration of aqueous surfactant solution increases the pool boiling heat transfer coefficient. The aqueous surfactant solution SDS improved the heat transfer coefficient of Aluminum, Zircalloy and stainless steel surface materials by 135%.138% and 120% respectively. The results of the numerical model are nearly in agreement with that measured in experimental.

scholarly journals Method for Determining the Boundary Condition of Heat Transfer in Mold for Slab Casting

2021 ◽  
Vol 2101 (1) ◽  
pp. 012037
Author(s):  
Junli Guo ◽  
Jin Zou ◽  
Changlin Yang ◽  
Deping Lu ◽  
Lefei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Temperature Field ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Casting Speed ◽  
Cooling Condition ◽  
Average Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Average Heat

Abstract The calculation of temperature field in the mold is important for the study of solidification process of liquid steel. In order to calculate the accurate temperature field of slab in the mod, the boundary condition of heat transfer in the mold should be determined before the calculation of slab temperature. In this paper, the relationship among the average heat transfer coefficient in the mold, the physical properties of steel, the cast condition and the cooling condition is derived according to the energy conservation equation and the Fourier law of heat conduction. Furthermore, the method for determining the parameters related to the formula of boundary heat flux is introduced. Results indicate that the average heat transfer coefficient in the mold ranges from 450 to 2000 W·(m2oC)−1 for conventional caster with a casting speed ranging from 0.8 and 1.8 m·min-1. The average heat transfer coefficient increases with the increase of casting speed. Besides, the casting speed has an effect on the parameters in the formula of calculating boundary heat flux, which indicates that the casting speed and the cooling condition should be taken into consideration for determining parameters related to the formula of calculating surface heat flux in the mold.

scholarly journals Investigation of Heat Transfer in a Large-Scale External Heat Exchanger with Horizontal Smooth Tube Bundle

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (17) ◽  
pp. 5553
Author(s):  
Artur Blaszczuk ◽  
Szymon Jagodzik
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Fluidized Bed ◽  
Tube Bundle ◽  
External Heat ◽  
Average Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Average Heat ◽  
External Heat Exchanger

In the research work, energy transport between a dense fluidized bed and submerged horizontal tube bundle is analyzed in the commercial external heat exchanger (EHE). In order to investigate the heat transfer behavior, the authors carried out eight performance tests in a fluidized bed heat exchange chamber with a cross-section of 2.7 × 2.3 m in depth and width and a height of 1.3 m. The authors have been developing a mechanistic model for the prediction of the average heat transfer coefficient, which includes the effect of the geometric structure of the tube bundle and the location of the heat transfer surface on the heat transfer rate. The computational results depict that the average heat transfer coefficient is essentially affected by superficial gas velocity and suspension density rather than bed particle size. The empirical correlations have been proposed for predicting heat transfer data since the existing literature data is not sufficient for industrial fluidized bed heat exchangers. On the basis of the evaluated operating conditions of an external heat exchanger, the optimal conditions where heat transfer occurs could be deduced. The developed mechanistic heat transfer model is validated by experimental data under the examined conditions.

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