The Use of Organic Coatings to Promote Dropwise Condensation of Steam

1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 768-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Holden ◽  
A. S. Wanniarachchi ◽  
P. J. Marto ◽  
D. H. Boone ◽  
J. W. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Polymer Coatings ◽  
Organic Coatings ◽  
Major Constituent ◽  
Dropwise Condensation ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Sustained Performance

Fourteen polymer coatings were evaluated for their ability to promote and sustain dropwise condensation of steam. Nine of the coatings employed a fluoropolymer as a major constituent; four employed hydrocarbons and one a silicone. Each coating was applied to 25-mm-square by approximately 1-mm-thick metal substrates of brass, copper, copper–nickel, and titanium. While exposed to steam at atmospheric pressure, each coating was visually evaluated for its ability to promote dropwise condensation. Observations were also conducted over a period of 22,000 hr. Hardness and adhesion tests were performed on selected specimens. On the basis of sustained performance, six coatings were selected for application to the outside of 19-mm-dia copper tubes in order to perform a heat transfer evaluation. These tubes were mounted horizontally in a separate apparatus through which steam flowed vertically downward. Steam-side heat transfer coefficients were inferred from overall measurements. Test results indicate that the steam-side heat transfer coefficient can be increased by a factor of five to eight through the use of polymer coatings to promote dropwise condensation.

Natural-Convection Heat Transfer in Liquids Confined by Two Horizontal Plates and Heated From Below

1959 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Globe ◽  
David Dropkin
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Silicone Oil ◽  
Convection Heat Transfer ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Silicone Oils ◽  
Prandtl Numbers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Rayleigh Numbers

This paper presents results of an experimental investigation of convective heat transfer in liquids placed between two horizontal plates and heated from below. The liquids used were water, silicone oils of 1.5, 50, and 1000 centistoke kinematic viscosities, and mercury. The experiments covered a range of Rayleigh numbers between 1.51(10)5 and 6.76(10)8. and Prandtl numbers between 0.02 and 8750. Tests were made in cylindrical containers having copper tops and bottoms and insulating walls. For water and silicone oils the container was 5 in. in diam and 2 in. high. For mercury, two containers were used, both 5.28 in. in diameter, but one 1.39 in. high and another 2.62 in. high. In all cases the bottom plates were heated by electric heaters. The top plates were air-cooled for the water and silicone-oil experiments and water-cooled for the mercury tests. To prevent amalgamation, the copper plates of the mercury container were chromium plated. Surface temperatures were measured by thermocouples embedded in the plates. The test results indicate that the heat-transfer coefficients for all liquids investigated may be determined from the relationship Nu=0.069Ra13Pr0.074 In this equation the Nusselt and Rayleigh numbers are based on the distance between the copper plates. The results of this experiment are in reasonable agreement with the data reported by others who used larger containers and different fluids.

Crossover Jet Impingement in a Rib-Roughened Trailing-Edge Cooling Channel

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad E. Taslim ◽  
Fei Xue
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Numerical Results ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Trailing Edge ◽  
Numerical Work ◽  
Edge Channel ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Rib Roughened

Airfoil trailing-edge cooling is the main focus of this study. The test section was made up of two adjacent trapezoidal channels, simulating the trailing-edge cooling cavity of a gas turbine airfoil and its neighboring cavity. Eleven racetrack-shaped holes were drilled on the partition wall between the two channels to produce 11 cross-over jets that impinged on the rib-roughened wall of the trailing-edge channel. The jets, after impinging on their respective target surface, turned toward the trailing-edge channel exit. Smooth target wall, as a baseline case, as well as four rib angles with the flow of 0 deg, 45 deg, 90 deg, and 135 deg are investigated. Cross-over holes axes were on the trailing-edge channel center plane, i.e., no tilting of the cross-over jets. Steady-state liquid crystal thermography technique was used in this study for a range of jet Reynolds number of 10,000–35,000. The test results are compared with the numerical results obtained from the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes and energy equation. Closure was attained by k–ω with shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model. The entire test rig (supply and trailing-edge channels) was meshed with variable density hexagonal meshes. The numerical work was performed for boundary conditions identical to those of the tests. In addition to the impingement heat transfer coefficients, the numerical results provided the mass flow rates through individual cross-over holes. This study concluded that: (a) the local Nusselt numbers correlate well with the local jet Reynolds numbers, (b) 90 deg rib arrangement, that is, when the cross-over jet axis was parallel to the rib longitudinal axis, produced higher heat transfer coefficients, compared to other rib angles, and (c) numerical heat transfer results were generally in good agreement with the test results. The overall difference between the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and test results was about 10%.

On the Influence of the Thickness and Thermal Properties of Heating Walls on the Heat Transfer Coefficients in Nucleate Pool Boiling

1975 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Magrini ◽  
E. Nannei
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Experimental Data ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Metal Layer ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heating Wall ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
The Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Zinc Nickel

An experimental investigation was conducted under conditions of saturated pool boiling of water at atmospheric pressure on thin, horizontal, cylindrical walls of different metals and thicknesses, electrically heated. The heating walls, ranging in thickness from 5 to 250 μm, were obtained by plating copper, silver, zinc, nickel, and tin on nonmetallic rods. Experiments showed that the heat transfer coefficient can be affected, in particular conditions, by the heating wall thickness. In particular, it resulted that the smaller the thermal conductivity of the metal layer, the higher the influence of the thickness. A semiempirical correlation of the form ΔT = (q/A)nf(κd, √κρc) suitable to correlate the experimental data within ±15 percent in the whole range of variables here investigated is proposed.

Some Effects of Geometry, Orientation, and Acceleration on Pool Film Boiling of Organic Fluids

1966 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Heath ◽  
C. P. Costello
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Film Boiling ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Actual System ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Organic Fluids ◽  
The Heat Transfer Coefficient

Ethanol, pentane, and Freon-113 were tested for atmospheric pressure, saturated film-boiling characteristics. Turbulent waves arise close to the bottom of vertical platinum plates and the data become identical to those obtained with horizontal plates, verifying an earlier contention by Y. P. Chang. The equation of Berenson fits the data for both horizontal and vertical heaters fairly well if modified for geometry, and the equation also correctly predicts the effect of acceleration on film-boiling heat-transfer coefficients. At high temperature differences, Berenson’s equation for the heat-transfer coefficient is slightly conservative, which is qualitatively predictable by analyzing the departures of the actual system from the idealized model of Berenson.

Effect of Nano-Particles on Pool Boiling Heat Transfer of Refrigerant 141b

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Da-Wei Liu ◽  
Chien-Yuh Yang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nano Particles ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Tube Surface ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pool Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients

Fluids with nano-sized particles have been proved that may effectively enhance the single-phase convective heat transfer performance. For pool boiling heat transfer, the published test results seems conflicted to each other. Some measured heat transfer coefficient decreased with increasing particle concentration but some showed no appreciable difference. This study provides an experimental investigation on pool boiling heat transfer performance of refrigerants R-141b with and without nano-sized Au particles on horizontal plain tubes. The test results show that the boiling heat transfer coefficients increase with increasing nano-particles concentration. At particles concentration of 1.0%, the heat transfer coefficient is more than twice higher than those without nano-particles. However, the heat transfer coefficients decreased for each test after every 5 days and finally close to those of R-141b without nano-particles. The SPM investigation shows that the test tube surface roughness decreased from 0.317 μm before boiling test to 0.162 μm after test. Further investigation by TEM and Dynamic Light Scattering particle analyzer shows that the nano-particles aggregated from 3 μm before test to 110 μm after test. This results show that the nano-sized Au particles are able to significantly increase pool boiling heat transfer of refrigerant R-141b on plain tube surface. The tube surface roughness and particle size changed after boiling test. Both of these effects degrade the boiling heat transfer coefficients.

Study on Condensation Heat Transfer on Micro Structured Surfaces (Effect on Condensation Heat Transfer of Metal Sputtering Surfaces)

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kohei Yamazaki ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake ◽  
Koji Hasegawa
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Metal Film ◽  
Copper Surface ◽  
Thin Metal Film ◽  
Thin Metal ◽  
Condensation Heat Transfer ◽  
Dropwise Condensation ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Structured Surfaces ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients

The present study was intended to examine how the condensation heat transfer, especially the dropwise condensation, was affected by modifying the surface nature. In the present study, condensation heat transfer experiments for steam were performed by using mirror-finished copper surface and some very thin metal-film surfaces by using sputtering on mirror-finished copper block. That is, the effects on pattern of condensation heat transfer, i.e., dropwise or film-wise condensation, of metal-sputtered surfaces were examined experimentally and qualitatively. The present experimental results showed that the condensation on sputtered metal surfaces of Copper (Cu), Chromium (Cr) and Lead (Pb), became dropwise condensation. The heat transfer coefficients were ten times higher than the Nusselt equation. The condensation on sputtered metal surface of Titanium (Ti) became filmwise condensation. High contact angle was trended to be dropwise condensation on very thin metal-film surfaces by using sputtering.

A Semi-Empirical Model for Condensation Heat Transfer Coefficient of Mixed Ethanol-Water Vapors

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Li ◽  
JunJie Yan ◽  
JinShi Wang ◽  
GuoXiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Empirical Model ◽  
Condensation Heat Transfer ◽  
Dropwise Condensation ◽  
Heat Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Transfer Characteristics ◽  
Semi Empirical

A semi-empirical model describing the heat transfer characteristics of the pseudo-dropwise condensation of binary vapor on a cooled vertical tube has been formulated. By ignoring the thin film always present on the condensation surface and the intensification of mass transfer caused by the Marangoni effect, the heat transfer characteristics of pseudo-dropwise condensation are tentatively formulated. The model involved an analysis of the diffusion process in the vapor boundary layer along with the heat transfer process through the condensate drops. This model was applied to the condensation of the saturated binary vapor of ethanol and water, and was examined using experimental data at vapor pressure values of 101.33 kPa (provided by Utaka and Wang, 2004, “Characteristic Curves and the Promotion Effect of Ethanol Addition on Steam Condensation Heat Transfer,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 47, pp. 4507–4516), 84.52 kPa and 47.36 kPa. Calculations using the model show a similar trend to the experimental measurements. With the change of the vapor-to-surface temperature difference, the heat transfer coefficients revealed nonlinear characteristics, with the peak values under all ethanol mass fractions of binary vapor. The heat transfer coefficients increased with decreasing ethanol mass fraction.

Development of an Outdoor Test Facility for Wind Convectors

1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. F. Monaghan ◽  
D. P. Finn ◽  
P. H. Oosthuizen
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Heat Pumps ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Transfer Rates ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Outdoor Test

This paper deals with measurement of heat transfer performance of wind convectors, an alternative air source evaporator system for heat pumps. An automatically controlled and monitored outdoor wind convector test facility that is capable of measuring heat transfer rates and overall heat-transfer coefficients to within ± 5 percent measurement uncertainty for up to three wind convectors has been designed, built, and tested. Data on air temperature and humidity, solar radiation, and wind speed and direction are simultaneously collected. The choice of measurement technique for each variable and an error analysis for each sensor is discussed. Typical graphical test results are presented.

Effect of Dropwise Condensation on the Thermal Efficiency of a Triple Effect Water Distillation Plant

1966 ◽  
Vol 181 (1) ◽  
pp. 707-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Poll ◽  
C. J. Potter ◽  
A. W. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Stearic Acid ◽  
Thermal Efficiency ◽  
Dropwise Condensation ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Power Station ◽  
Water Distillation ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Softened Water ◽  
Distillation Plant

The dropwise condensation promotion of a power station triple effect evaporator fed with softened water resulted in a significant improvement in the apparent heat transfer coefficients across the effects, and a resultant improvement in the net output of 10-15 per cent. This improvement was limited by the thermo-compressor capacity and an improvement to 35 per cent has been calculated if this restriction were removed. Slight condensate contamination by stearic acid occurred, but the quality generally remained acceptable for steam generating plant make-up.

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