The Influence of Subcooling on the Frequency of Bubble Emission in Nucleate Boiling

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Judd

The experimental results reported in Ibrahim and Judd (1985) in which bubble period first increased and then decreased as subcooling varied over the range 0 ≤ θsat ≤ 15° C is interpreted by means of a comprehensive boiling heat transfer model incorporating the contributions of nucleate boiling, natural convection, and micro-layer evaporation components. It is shown that bubble emission frequency varies to accommodate the impressed heat load in the manner described above because changes in subcooling cause the heat flux within the area influenced by the formation and departure of bubbles to change in the opposite sense to the fraction of the surface area within which bubble formation and departure occurs. The mechanism responsible for the nucleation of bubbles at exactly the frequency required at each level of subcooling is the object of continuing research.

2011 ◽  
Vol 383-390 ◽  
pp. 811-815
Author(s):  
Hu Gen Ma ◽  
Jian Mei Bai ◽  
Rong Jian Xie ◽  
Wen Jing Tu

In this paper, the boiling heat transfer test rig was designed and built, while the characteristics of boiling Heat Transfer of refrigerants in micro-channel was researched. The wall temperature of micro-channel was measured by TH5104 Infrared thermography. The results showed that there were obvious variations for wall temperature of micro-channel along the axial direction when boiling heat transfer occurred in the micro-channel. The temperature distribution affected obviously by the heat flux, mass flow rate; vapor quality and heat transfer model.


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.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake ◽  
Manabu Mochizuki

Abstract The effect of solid particle introduction on subcooled-forced flow boiling heat transfer and a critical heat flux was examined experimentally. In the experiment, glass beads of 0.6 mm diameter were mixed in subcooled water. Experiments were conducted in a range of the subcooling of 40 K, a velocity of 0.17–6.7 m/s, a volumetric particle ratio of 0–17%. When particles were introduced, the growth of a superheated liquid layer near a heat trasnsfer surface seemed to be suppressed and the onset of nucleate boiling was delayed. The particles promoted the condensation of bubbles on the heat transfer surface, which shifted the initiation of a net vapor generation to a high heat flux region. Boiling heat trasnfer was augmented by the particle introduction. The suppression of the growth of the superheated liquid layer and the promotion of bubble condensation and dissipation by the particles seemed to contribute that heat transfer augmentation. The wall superheat at the critical heat flux was elevated by the particle introduction and the critical heat flux itself was also enhanced. However, the degree of the critical heat flux improvement was not drastic.


1963 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan-Po Chang

The primary purpose of this paper is to introduce into boiling heat transfer certain basic ideas from which several critical conditions are derived. The heat transfer in nucleate boiling is considered as being limited by the maximum rate of bubble generation from a unit area of the heating surface. With certain simplified assumptions, an equation is obtained for the first critical heat flux of nucleate boiling with and without forced convection and subcooling.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-252
Author(s):  
Łukasz J. Orman ◽  
Norbert Radek ◽  
Jacek Pietraszek ◽  
Dariusz Gontarski

AbstractThe paper discusses nucleate boiling heat transfer on meshed surfaces during pool boiling of distilled water and ethyl alcohol of very high purity. It presents a correlation for heat flux developed for heaters covered with microstructural coatings made of meshes. The experimental results have been compared with the calculation results performed using the correlation and have been followed by discussion. Conclusions regarding the heat flux determination method have been drawn with the particular focus on the usefulness of the considered model for heat flux calculations on samples with sintered mesh layers.


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.


1959 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Siegel ◽  
C. Usiskin

A photographic study was made to determine the qualitative effect of zero gravity on the mechanism of boiling heat transfer. The experimental equipment included a container for boiling water and a high-speed motion-picture camera. To eliminate the influence of gravity, these were mounted on a platform which was allowed to fall freely approximately 8 ft. During the free fall, photographs were taken of boiling from various surface configurations such as electrically heated horizontal and vertical ribbons. The heat flux was varied to produce conditions from moderate nucleate boiling to burnout. The results indicate that gravity plays a considerable role in the boiling process, especially in connection with the motion of vapor within the liquid.


Author(s):  
M. R. Reda

Nucleate boiling heat transfer is first introduced and the literature is reviewed. It was concluded that the passive layer and the grain boundaries are responsible for the transfer to the nucleate boiling regime. Based on the recent work of Biener and his collaborators (Nature Material 2008) and the Gibbs rule of thermodynamics, a possible mechanism was outlined. The mechanism assumes that each grain in the passive layer act as a chemical actuator which is driven by microstructure phase change. The new mechanism agrees well with the experimental results, in good agreement with previous models and can explain why and how CHF occurs.


Author(s):  
T. S. Mogaji ◽  
O. A. Sogbesan ◽  
Tien-Chien Jen

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.


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