A Study of the Temperature Profiles Measured in the Thermal Sublayer of Water, Freon-113, and Methyl Alcohol During Pool Boiling

1968 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Lippert ◽  
R. S. Dougall

Experiments were made of the time-average temperature and thermal-fluctuation profiles occurring during pool boiling from a horizontal copper surface with water, Freon-113, and methanol as fluids. These profiles show a similar nature when scaled by a length called the sublayer thickness, δ. These results show that the correlations for sublayer thickness with other system parameters can be divided into two distinct regimes. For low heat fluxes, one relation correlates the data of all three fluids. At higher heat fluxes, the correlating requires different constants for the different fluids in a manner similar to boiling heat-transfer correlations.

1965 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. D. Marcus ◽  
D. Dropkin

Temperature measurements were made within the superheated boundary layer above and adjacent to a horizontal heating surface in saturated, nucleate, pool boiling of water. A microthermocouple probe was used to measure the average temperature profiles and the temperature fluctuations within the boundary layer at heat fluxes from 1000 to 40,000 Btu/hr-sq ft. Correlations are presented for the “extrapolated” thickness of the boundary layer (δ) as well as the temperature distribution within it. It was found that the thickness (δ) could be expressed in terms of the heat-transfer coefficient as: δ = Chd. Also, the behavior of δ with system parameters was found to agree with that predicted by Han and Griffith [3] and Hsu [4] in their theories of nucleation from surface cavities. The temperature distribution in the boundary layer from the surface to 0.57δ was essentially linear and could be expressed: (T − Tb)/(Ts − Tb) = 1 − (y/δ). Above 0.57δ the temperature profile became an inverse power function of the height above the surface: (T − Tb)/(Ts − Tb) = D(y/δ)−a.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Eduardo Freitas ◽  
Pedro Pontes ◽  
Ricardo Cautela ◽  
Vaibhav Bahadur ◽  
João Miranda ◽  
...  

This study addresses the combination of customized surface modification with the use of nanofluids, to infer on its potential to enhance pool-boiling heat transfer. Hydrophilic surfaces patterned with superhydrophobic regions were developed and used as surface interfaces with different nanofluids (water with gold, silver, aluminum and alumina nanoparticles), in order to evaluate the effect of the nature and concentration of the nanoparticles in bubble dynamics and consequently in heat transfer processes. The main qualitative and quantitative analysis was based on extensive post-processing of synchronized high-speed and thermographic images. To study the nucleation of a single bubble in pool boiling condition, a numerical model was also implemented. The results show an evident benefit of using biphilic patterns with well-established distances between the superhydrophobic regions. This can be observed in the resulting plot of the dissipated heat flux for a biphilic pattern with seven superhydrophobic spots, δ = 1/d and an imposed heat flux of 2132 w/m2. In this case, the dissipated heat flux is almost constant (except in the instant t* ≈ 0.9 when it reaches a peak of 2400 W/m2), whilst when using only a single superhydrophobic spot, where the heat flux dissipation reaches the maximum shortly after the detachment of the bubble, dropping continuously until a new necking phase starts. The biphilic patterns also allow a controlled bubble coalescence, which promotes fluid convection at the hydrophilic spacing between the superhydrophobic regions, which clearly contributes to cool down the surface. This effect is noticeable in the case of employing the Ag 1 wt% nanofluid, with an imposed heat flux of 2132 W/m2, where the coalescence of the drops promotes a surface cooling, identified by a temperature drop of 0.7 °C in the hydrophilic areas. Those areas have an average temperature of 101.8 °C, whilst the average temperature of the superhydrophobic spots at coalescence time is of 102.9 °C. For low concentrations as the ones used in this work, the effect of the nanofluids was observed to play a minor role. This can be observed on the slight discrepancy of the heat dissipation decay that occurred in the necking stage of the bubbles for nanofluids with the same kind of nanoparticles and different concentration. For the Au 0.1 wt% nanofluid, a heat dissipation decay of 350 W/m2 was reported, whilst for the Au 0.5 wt% nanofluid, the same decay was only of 280 W/m2. The results of the numerical model concerning velocity fields indicated a sudden acceleration at the bubble detachment, as can be qualitatively analyzed in the thermographic images obtained in this work. Additionally, the temperature fields of the analyzed region present the same tendency as the experimental results.


2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Hari Krishna ◽  
Harish Ganapathy ◽  
G. Sateesh ◽  
Sarit K. Das

Nanofluids, solid-liquid suspensions with solid particles of size of the order of few nanometers, have created interest in many researchers because of their enhancement in thermal conductivity and convective heat transfer characteristics. Many studies have been done on the pool boiling characteristics of nanofluids, most of which have been with nanofluids containing oxide nanoparticles owing to the ease in their preparation. Deterioration in boiling heat transfer was observed in some studies. Metallic nanofluids having metal nanoparticles, which are known for their good heat transfer characteristics in bulk regime, reported drastic enhancement in thermal conductivity. The present paper investigates into the pool boiling characteristics of metallic nanofluids, in particular of Cu-H2O nanofluids, on flat copper heater surface. The results indicate that at comparatively low heat fluxes, there is deterioration in boiling heat transfer with very low particle volume fraction of 0.01%, and it increases with volume fraction and shows enhancement with 0.1%. However, the behavior is the other way around at high heat fluxes. The enhancement at low heat fluxes is due to the fact that the effect of formation of thin sorption layer of nanoparticles on heater surface, which causes deterioration by trapping the nucleation sites, is overshadowed by the increase in microlayer evaporation, which is due to enhancement in thermal conductivity. Same trend has been observed with variation in the surface roughness of the heater as well.


1969 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Shai ◽  
W. M. Rohsenow

Experimental data for sodium boiling on horizontal surfaces containing artificial cavities at heat fluxes of 20,000 to 300,000 Btu/ft2 hr and pressures between 40 to 106 mm Hg were obtained. Observations are made for stable boiling, unstable boiling and “bumping.” Some recorded temperature variations in the solid close to the nucleating cavity are presented. It is suggested that for liquid metals the time for bubble growth and departure is a very small fraction of the total bubble cycle, hence the delay time during which a thermal layer grows is the most significant part of the process. On this basis the transient conduction heat transfer is solved for a periodic process, and the period time is found to be a function of the degree of superheat, the heat flux and the liquid thermal properties. A simplified model for stability of nucleate pool boiling of liquid metals is postulated from which the minimum heat flux for stable boiling can be found as a function of liquid-solid properties, liquid pressure, the degree of superheat, and the cavity radius and depth. At relatively low heat fluxes, convection currents have significant effects on the period time of bubble formation. An empirical correlation is proposed, which takes into account the convection effects, to match the experimental results.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanlyun Cho ◽  
Juan Godinez ◽  
Jun Sae Han ◽  
Dani Fadda ◽  
Seung Mun You ◽  
...  

In this study, two kinds of copper micro-patterned surfaces with different heights were fabricated by using a powder injection molding (PIM) process. The micro-pattern’s size was 100 μm, and the gap size was 50 μm. The short micro-pattern’s height was 100 μm, and the height of the tall one was 380 μm. A copper powder and wax-polymer-based binder system was used to fabricate the micro-patterned surfaces. The critical heat flux (CHF) and heat transfer coefficient (HTC) during pool-boiling tests were measured with the micro-patterned surfaces and a reference plain copper surface. The CHF of short and tall micro-patterned surfaces were 1434 and 1444 kW/m2, respectively, and the plain copper surface’s CHF was 1191 kW/m2. The HTC of the plain copper surface and the PIM surface with short and tall micro-patterned surfaces were similar in value up to a heat flux 1000 kW/m2. Beyond that value, the plain surface quickly reached its CHF, while the HTC of the short micro-patterned surface achieved higher values than that of the tall micro-patterned surface. At CHF, the maximum values of HTC for the short micro-pattern, tall micro-pattern, and the plain copper surface were 68, 58, and 57 kW/m2 K.


Author(s):  
Dong-Chuan Mo ◽  
Shuo Yang ◽  
Jia-Li Luo ◽  
Ya-Qiao Wang ◽  
Shu-Shen Lyu
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1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 408-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Oka ◽  
Y. Abe ◽  
Y. H. Mori ◽  
A. Nagashima

A series of pool boiling experiments have been conducted under reduced gravity condition (the order of 10−2 times the terrestrial gravity) available in an aircraft taking parabolic flight. A transparent resistant heater, a transparent indium oxide film plated on a glass plate, was employed so that the vapor/liquid behavior interacting with the heater surface could be observed from the rear side of the heater simultaneously with the side view of vapor bubbles above the heater surface. The experiments were performed for three different fluids—n-pentane, CFC-113, and water—under subcooled conditions. The critical heat fluxes for both n-pentane and CFC-113 under the reduced gravity were lowered to about 40 percent of the corresponding terrestrial values. Although the heat transfer characteristics in a low heat flux nucleate boiling regime for both n-pentane and CFC-113 showed no more than a slight change with the reduction in gravity, a significant heat transfer deterioration was noted with water in the reduced gravity boiling. The observation from the rear side of the heater suggested that this particular difference in the gravity dependency of heat transfer was ascribed to a considerable difference, between the organic fluids and water, in the behavior of attachment to the heater surface of the bubbles grown up, while the behavior of attachment must depend on the surface tension of each fluid and the wettability of the heater surface with the fluid.


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