Experimental Research of Boiling Heat Transfer Phenomena on Metal Surface in State of Low Gravitational Acceleration Field Between 0g and 1g

Author(s):  
Eiji Nemoto ◽  
Tomohiro Saitoh

The paper deals with the characteristics of boiling heat transfer phenomena on the metal surfaces where gravitational acceleration between 0g and 1g acts. To conduct the experiment in the field where the gravitational acceleration between 1g and 0g acted accurately, we produced the Atwood machine that was able to obtain the fixed gravitational acceleration field known by physics well. The metallic materials used by the experiment were brass, stainless steel, aluminum, copper and these materials were processed to 10mm in the diameter, and we put these samples in liquid nitrogen and experimented on the boiling phenomenon. As a result, it has been understood that there is the feature shown next in boiling heat transfer phenomena on the metal surface in gravitational acceleration field between 0g and 1g. (1) When brass, copper, stainless steel, and aluminum of the sample were put in the liquid nitrogen, the temperature differentiation coefficient on the sample surface showed the tendency to decrease in proportion to gravitational acceleration changed from 1g into 0g. (2) In boiling heat flux curve in these metals (brass, stainless steel, aluminum and copper), it was clarified for gravitational acceleration 1g to indicate maximum heat flux value qmax.

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang Gun Lee ◽  
Jin Sub Kim ◽  
Dong Hwan Shin ◽  
Jungho Lee

The effect of staggered-array water impinging jets on boiling heat transfer was investigated by a simultaneous measurement between boiling visualization and heat transfer characteristics. The boiling phenomena of staggered-array impinging jets on hot steel plate were visualized by 4K UHD video camera. The surface temperature and heat flux on hot steel plate was determined by solving 2-D inverse heat conduction problem, which was measured by the flat-plate heat flux gauge. The experiment was made at jet Reynolds number of Re = 5,000 and the jet-to-jet distance of staggered-array jets of S/Dn = 10. Complex flow interaction of staggered-array impinging jets exhibited hexagonal flow pattern like as honey-comb. The calculated surface heat transfer profiles show a good agreement with the corresponding boiling visualization. The peak of heat flux accords with the location which nucleate boiling is occurred at. In early stage, the positions of maximum heat flux locate at the stagnation point of each jet as the relatively low surface temperature is shown at their positions. At the elapsed time of 10 s, the flat shape of heat flux profile is formed in the hexagonal area where the interacting flow uniformly cools down the wetted surface. After that, the wetted area continuously enlarges with time and the maximum heat flux is observed at its peripheral. These results point out that the flow interaction of staggered-array jets effectively cools down the closer area around jets and also show an expansion of nucleate boiling and suppression of film boiling during water jet cooling on hot steel plate. [This work was supported by the KETEP grant funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy, Korea (Grant No. 20142010102910).]


2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joo Han Kim ◽  
Ajay Gurung ◽  
Miguel Amaya ◽  
Sang Muk Kwark ◽  
Seung M. You

The present research is an experimental study for the enhancement of boiling heat transfer using microporous coatings. Two types of coatings are investigated: one that is bonded using epoxy and the other by soldering. Effects on pool boiling performance were investigated, of different metal particle sizes of the epoxy-based coating, on R-123 refrigerants, and on water. All boiling tests were performed with 1 cm × 1 cm test heaters in the horizontal, upward-facing orientation in saturated conditions at atmospheric pressure and under increasing heat flux. The surface enhanced by the epoxy-based microporous coatings significantly augmented both nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficients and critical heat flux (CHF) of R-123 relative to those of a plain surface. However, for water, with the same microporous coating, boiling performance did not improve as much, and thermal resistance of the epoxy component limited the maximum heat flux that could be applied. Therefore, for water, to seek improved performance, the solder-based microporous coating was applied. This thermally conductive microporous coating, TCMC, greatly enhanced the boiling performance of water relative to the plain surface, increasing the heat transfer coefficient up to ∼5.6 times, and doubling the CHF.


Author(s):  
Yu Yan Jiang ◽  
Hiroshi Osada ◽  
Masahide Inagaki ◽  
Nariaki Horinouchi

The past decades have witnessed the diverse applications of boiling heat transfer enhancement in the removal of high density heat flux released by electronic components or power devices. People have developed many enhanced surfaces to obtain the highest heat transfer coefficient in nucleate boiling or to raise the CHF. In the boiling arena bubbling and nucleation site density play core parts, and hence it is crucial to correlate them quantitatively with surface structure and heat transfer conditions. For example one can determine by that correlation the best arrangement of boiling cavities for a given heat flux. However, the bubbling is highly influenced by inter-bubble actions. It has been found that the interactions can considerably change the bubble’s size, frequency and spatial distribution. The interactions are needed to be taken accounts of for a good correlation. Researchers tried to formulate the interactions as a single function of the inter-site spacing but have obtained contradictory conclusions, as suggests that they depend also on other parameters. In the present study we conducted a saturated boiling heat transfer experiment to investigate the interactions with respects to both the inter-site spacing and the wall thermal conductivity. The test section was fabricated by both copper and stainless steel, whose surface has two cylindrical artificial cavities of 50μm in diameter. It was heated with a uniform heat flux. The results show that both the bubble diameter Db and frequency f are functions of the inter-cavity distance s, but they vary in different manners in the copper and the stainless steel surfaces. In the copper surface, we observed evident enhancement of the boiling heat transfer at 1> S >0.4 and a slight inhibitive effect at 1.6> S >1, where S = s/Db. On the contrary the two nucleate sites in the stainless steel surface interfere with each other giving rise to evident suppression of boiling heat transfer at 1.6> S >0.65 and only slight enhancement at 0.65> S >0.3. Note that the copper’s thermal conductivity is 22 times larger than the stainless steel. Numerical simulation has revealed that the temperature variation beneath the copper cavities is much less than the stainless steel, which partly explains the differences in our experimental results. It is suggested that modeling the bubble interactions should take accounts of not only the distance-to-diameter ratio but also the fluid and wall properties.


1977 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sakurai ◽  
M. Shiotsu

Transient boiling heat transfer for exponential heat input to a platinum wire supported horizontally in a pool of water was investigated. Transient boiling heat transfer coefficient, transient DNB heat flux, and transient maximum heat flux were obtained for exponential periods ranging from 5 ms to 10 s and for system pressures ranging from 0.1 to 2.1 MPa. Transient boiling heat transfer coefficient after the commencement of boiling becomes lower than the steady boiling heat transfer coefficient at the same heat flux. This was explained to be as a result of the time lag of the activation of originally flooded cavities for the increasing rate of the heat input. Initial heat flux was varied from zero to near the steady maximum heat flux. Effect of initial boiling condition on transient DNB and maximum heat fluxes was negligible. Mechanism of transient boiling heat transfer beyond steady DNB heat flux was suggested.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 736-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. X. Tung ◽  
V. K. Dhir

Boiling heat transfer from a sphere embedded in a porous medium composed of nonheated glass particles was studied under steady-state and transient quenching conditions. In the experiments, the diameter of the nonheated glass particles forming the porous layers was varied parametrically. Freon-113 was used as the test liquid. Experimental results showed that the maximum heat flux increased monotonically with increasing glass particle diameter and approached an asymptotic value corresponding to the maximum heat flux obtained in a pool free of glass particles. It was also observed that the minimum heat flux was nearly insensitive to the particle size and the film boiling heat transfer coefficient increased slightly with decreasing particle size. In the nucleate boiling region, the heat transfer coefficient showed a much weaker dependence on wall superheat in the presence of particles. Transient data indicated that the surface temperature was not uniform during quenching. Therefore, different maximum heat fluxes were obtained depending on the location of the thermocouple whose temperature history was employed in recovering the transient boiling curve. However, for some applications, cooling rates predicted by imposing the steady-state boiling curve may not be in large error.


2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (5) ◽  
pp. 901-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Hall ◽  
Frank P. Incropera ◽  
Raymond Viskanta

This paper reports results from an experimental study of boiling heat transfer during quenching of a cylindrical copper disk by a subcooled, circular, free-surface water jet. The disk was heated to approximately 650°C, and as quenching occurred, transient temperature measurements were taken at discrete locations near the surface and applied as boundary conditions in a conduction model to deduce transient heat flux distributions at the surface. Results are presented in the form of heat flux distributions and boiling curves for radial locations varying from the stagnation point to ten nozzle diameters for jet velocities between 2.0 and 4.0 m/s 11,300⩽Red⩽22,600. Data for nucleate boiling in the stagnation region and spatial distributions of maximum heat flux are presented and are in good agreement with correlations developed from steady-state experiments. Spatial distributions of minimum film boiling temperatures and heat fluxes are also reported and reveal a fundamental dependence on jet deflection and streamwise location. A companion paper (Hall et al., 2001) describes single-phase and boiling heat transfer measurements from a two-phase (water-air), free-surface, circular jet produced by injecting air bubbles into the jet upstream of the nozzle exit.


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