Experimental Investigation of Effect of a Surfactant to Increase Cooling of Hot Steel Plates by a Water Jet

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soumya S. Mohapatra ◽  
Satya V. Ravikumar ◽  
Ankur Verma ◽  
Surjya K. Pal ◽  
Sudipto Chakraborty

The requirement for high tensile strength steel has placed greater emphasis on the cooling methods used in the cooling of a hot steel plate. The purpose of this research is to study the effect of surfactant concentration in water jet cooling, and its applicability in the study of ultrafast cooling (UFC) of a hot steel plate. The initial temperature of the plate, before the cooling starts, is kept at 900 °C which is usually observed as the “finish rolling temperature (FRT)” in the hot strip mill of a steel plant. The current heat transfer analysis shows that surfactant added water jet produces higher heat flux than the pure water jet due to the higher forced convection cooling area. Dissolved surfactant increases the transition boiling heat flux, nucleate boiling heat flux and critical heat flux. At a concentration of 600 ppm, the maximum surface heat flux has been observed and further increase in surfactant concentration decreases the surface heat flux. The surface heat flux and the cooling rate show an increasing trend with the increasing water flow rate at a constant surfactant concentration. The achieved cooling rate in case of surfactant added water is almost twice that of jet with pure water, resulting in ultrafast cooling. By assuming the impinging surface consists of three different constant heat flux regions, the surface heat flux and the surface temperatures have been calculated by using intemp software.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aamir ◽  
Qiang Liao ◽  
Xun Zhu ◽  
Aqeel-ur-Rehman ◽  
Hong Wang ◽  
...  

An experimental study was carried out to investigate the effects of inlet pressure, sample thickness, initial sample temperature, and temperature sensor location on the surface heat flux, surface temperature, and surface ultrafast cooling rate using stainless steel samples of diameter 27 mm and thickness (mm) 8.5, 13, 17.5, and 22, respectively. Inlet pressure was varied from 0.2 MPa to 1.8 MPa, while sample initial temperature varied from 600°C to 900°C. Beck’s sequential function specification method was utilized to estimate surface heat flux and surface temperature. Inlet pressure has a positive effect on surface heat flux (SHF) within a critical value of pressure. Thickness of the sample affects the maximum achieved SHF negatively. Surface heat flux as high as 0.4024 MW/m2was estimated for a thickness of 8.5 mm. Insulation effects of vapor film become apparent in the sample initial temperature range of 900°C causing reduction in surface heat flux and cooling rate of the sample. A sensor location near to quenched surface is found to be a better choice to visualize the effects of spray parameters on surface heat flux and surface temperature. Cooling rate showed a profound increase for an inlet pressure of 0.8 MPa.


2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Satya V. Ravikumar ◽  
Jay M. Jha ◽  
Soumya S. Mohapatra ◽  
Surjya K. Pal ◽  
Sudipto Chakraborty

Heat transfer studies of a hot AISI 304 stainless steel plate by water jet impingement with different concentrations of three different types of surfactants have been investigated. The study involves a square plate of 100 mm × 100 mm surface area and 6 mm thickness with three subsurface thermocouples positioned at various locations inside the plate. The influence of jet height has been studied by varying the distance between the nozzle and plate from 200 mm to 600 mm. The results show that the heat transfer rate is found to increase with the jet height up to 400 mm and thereafter decreases due to capillary instability of liquid jet. Based on the maximum surface heat flux obtained for a particular nozzle height of 400 mm and an initial surface temperature of 900 °C, further experiments have been carried out with different types of surfactants. The types of surfactants used in the experimental study are anionic surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulphate, SDS), cationic surfactant (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, CTAB) and nonionic surfactant (Polyoxyethylene 20 sorbitan monolaurate, Tween 20). During cooling, the transient temperature data measured by thermocouples have been analyzed by inverse heat conduction procedure to calculate surface heat flux and surface temperatures. The increase in surface heat flux has been observed with increasing concentration of surfactants and it has been found to be limited to a particular concentration of surfactant after which further increase in concentration leads to decrease in heat flux. Use of surfactant added water minimizes the surface tension and promotes better spreadability of coolant on the test specimen by reducing the solid–liquid contact angle. The maximum heat transfer rate has been found by using nonionic surfactant additive which can primarily be attributed to its lesser foam formability nature.


2020 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Yuri P. Zarichnyak ◽  
Vyacheslav P. Khodunkov

The analysis of a new class of measuring instrument for heat quantities based on the use of multi-valued measures of heat conductivity of solids. For example, measuring thermal conductivity of solids shown the fallacy of the proposed approach and the illegality of the use of the principle of ambiguity to intensive thermal quantities. As a proof of the error of the approach, the relations for the thermal conductivities of the component elements of a heat pump that implements a multi-valued measure of thermal conductivity are given, and the limiting cases are considered. In two ways, it is established that the thermal conductivity of the specified measure does not depend on the value of the supplied heat flow. It is shown that the declared accuracy of the thermal conductivity measurement method does not correspond to the actual achievable accuracy values and the standard for the unit of surface heat flux density GET 172-2016. The estimation of the currently achievable accuracy of measuring the thermal conductivity of solids is given. The directions of further research and possible solutions to the problem are given.


Author(s):  
Ashutosh Kumar Yadav ◽  
Parantak Sharma ◽  
Avadhesh Kumar Sharma ◽  
Mayank Modak ◽  
Vishal Nirgude ◽  
...  

Impinging jet cooling technique has been widely used extensively in various industrial processes, namely, cooling and drying of films and papers, processing of metals and glasses, cooling of gas turbine blades and most recently cooling of various components of electronic devices. Due to high heat removal rate the jet impingement cooling of the hot surfaces is being used in nuclear industries. During the loss of coolant accidents (LOCA) in nuclear power plant, an emergency core cooling system (ECCS) cool the cluster of clad tubes using consisting of fuel rods. Controlled cooling, as an important procedure of thermal-mechanical control processing technology, is helpful to improve the microstructure and mechanical properties of steel. In industries for heat transfer efficiency and homogeneous cooling performance which usually requires a jet impingement with improved heat transfer capacity and controllability. It provides better cooling in comparison to air. Rapid quenching by water jet, sometimes, may lead to formation of cracks and poor ductility to the quenched surface. Spray and mist jet impingement offers an alternative method to uncontrolled rapid cooling, particularly in steel and electronics industries. Mist jet impingement cooling of downward facing hot surface has not been extensively studied in the literature. The present experimental study analyzes the heat transfer characteristics a 0.15mm thick hot horizontal stainless steel (SS-304) foil using Internal mixing full cone (spray angle 20 deg) mist nozzle from the bottom side. Experiments have been performed for the varied range of water pressure (0.7–4.0 bar) and air pressure (0.4–5.8 bar). The effect of water and air inlet pressures, on the surface heat flux has been examined in this study. The maximum surface heat flux is achieved at stagnation point and is not affected by the change in nozzle to plate distance, Air and Water flow rates.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (14) ◽  
pp. 1612
Author(s):  
Iskandar Waini ◽  
Anuar Ishak ◽  
Ioan Pop

This study investigates the nanofluid flow towards a shrinking cylinder consisting of Al2O3 nanoparticles. Here, the flow is subjected to prescribed surface heat flux. The similarity variables are employed to gain the similarity equations. These equations are solved via the bvp4c solver. From the findings, a unique solution is found for the shrinking strength λ≥−1. Meanwhile, the dual solutions are observed when λc<λ<−1. Furthermore, the friction factor Rex1/2Cf and the heat transfer rate Rex−1/2Nux increase with the rise of Al2O3 nanoparticles φ and the curvature parameter γ. Quantitatively, the rates of heat transfer Rex−1/2Nux increase up to 3.87% when φ increases from 0 to 0.04, and 6.69% when γ increases from 0.05 to 0.2. Besides, the profiles of the temperature θ(η) and the velocity f’(η) on the first solution incline for larger γ, but their second solutions decline. Moreover, it is noticed that the streamlines are separated into two regions. Finally, it is found that the first solution is stable over time.


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