Experimental Investigation of Flow Boiling Inside Three Three-Dimensional Surface Enhanced Heat Transfer Tubes

Author(s):  
Weiyu Tang ◽  
Zhengjiang Zhang ◽  
Jincai Du ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Jincheng Han ◽  
...  

An Experimental investigation was conducted to compare the evaporation characteristics of R410A inside three newly developed horizontal enhanced heat transfer (EHT) tubes with the same OD12.70mm and ID11.50mm, and the result of them are compared with that of a plain tube. The inner enhanced surface of 1EHT tube consists of dimples/protrusions and petal arrays, while that of 2EHT-1 tube and 2EHT-2 tube is composed by longitudinal grooves and dimples of different depths. The mass velocities are in the range of 70kg/m2s-200kg/m2 s with a nominal saturation temperature fixed at 279K and the vapor quality in the test section varies from 0.2∼0.9. As the mass flux increases, both the heat transfer coefficient and pressure penalty increase accordingly. The heat transfer coefficient of EHT tubes can achieve 1.14–1.53 times higher than that of the smooth tube while the pressure gradients is 1.43–1.83 times larger than that of smooth tubes. Besides, the enhancement ratios of all the enhanced surface tubes are larger than their respective surface area ratio, and the enhancement ratio comparisons of heat transfer coefficient are made to obtain the enhancing mechanism. The results show that the EHT tubes appear higher performance at low mass fluxes. In all, the EHT1 tube has the best heat transfer performance at low mass velocity, which can be attributed to its special enhanced inner surface, resulting in the increase of nucleation sites, flow separation and turbulent fluctuations. The other two 2EHT tubes can enhance the evaporation greatly with small respective surface ratios as well as relatively little pressure drop penalty, and them shows outstanding performance especially at high mass velocity.

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Murata ◽  
Satomi Nishida ◽  
Hiroshi Saito ◽  
Kaoru Iwamoto ◽  
Yoji Okita ◽  
...  

Cooling at the trailing edge of a gas turbine airfoil is one of the most difficult problems because of its thin shape, high thermal load from both surfaces, hard-to-cool geometry of narrow passages, and at the same time demand for structural strength. In this study, the heat transfer coefficient and film cooling effectiveness on the pressure-side cutback surface was measured by a transient infrared thermography method. Four different cutback geometries were examined: two smooth cutback surfaces with constant-width and converging lands (base and diffuser cases) and two roughened cutback surfaces with transverse ribs and spherical dimples. The Reynolds number of the main flow defined by the mean velocity and two times the channel height was 20,000, and the blowing ratio was varied among 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0. The experimental results clearly showed spatial variation of the heat transfer coefficient and the film cooling effectiveness on the cutback and land top surfaces. The cutback surface results clearly showed periodically enhanced heat transfer due to the periodical surface geometry of ribs and dimples. Generally, the increase of the blowing ratio increased both the heat transfer coefficient and the film cooling effectiveness. Within the present experimental range, the dimple surface was a favorable cutback-surface geometry because it gave the enhanced heat transfer without deterioration of the high film cooling effectiveness.


Author(s):  
M. E. Taslim ◽  
A. Rahman ◽  
S. D. Spring

Liquid crystals are used in this experimental investigation to measure the heat transfer coefficient in a spanwise rotating channel with two opposite rib-roughened walls. The ribs (also called turbulence promoters or turbulators) are configured in a staggered arrangement with an angle of attack to the mainstream flow, α, of 90° for all cases. Results are presented for three values of turbulator blockage ratio, e/Dh (0.1333, 0.25, 0.333) and for a range of Reynolds numbers from 15,000 to 50,000 while the test section is rotated at different speeds to give Rotational Reynolds numbers between 450 and 1800. The Rossby number range is 10 to 100 (Rotation number of 0.1 to 0.01). The effect of turbulator blockage ratios on heat transfer enhancement is also investigated. Comparisons are made between the results of geometrically identical stationary and rotating passages of otherwise similar operating conditions. The results indicate that a significant enhancement in heat transfer is achieved in both the stationary and rotating cases, when the surfaces are roughened with turbulators. For the rotating case, a maximum increase over that of the stationary case of about 45% in the heat transfer coefficient is seen for a blockage ratio of 0.133 on the trailing surface in the direction of rotation and the minimum is a decrease of about 6% for a blockage ratio of 0.333 on the leading surface, for the range of rotation numbers tested. The technique of using liquid crystals to determine heat transfer coefficients in this investigation proved to be an effective and accurate method especially for nonstationary test sections.


Author(s):  
T. Elnady ◽  
I. Hassan ◽  
L. Kadem ◽  
T. Lucas

An experimental investigation has been performed to study the effect of hole shape and position on the cooling performance of a gas turbine stator. Two rows of laid-back fan-shaped holes are placed on the pressure side of a scaled vane in a two-dimensional cascade and compared with two identical rows of standard cylindrical exit. Both hole shapes have the same base diameter and were investigated at three different blowing ratios (1, 1.35, and 1.7) with the same coolant flow rate used in each case. The experiments are conducted for the first row of holes only, then for the second row only, and finally for both two rows together at a 0.9 density ratio. The mainstream inlet Reynolds number based on the true chord is 1.4E5 and the exit Mach number is 0.23. The local distributions of the heat transfer coefficient and film cooling effectiveness are obtained using a transient TLC technique. The second row of holes, with by a higher local radius of curvature, shows a 40% decrease in the cooling effectiveness as well as a 10% increase in the heat transfer coefficient near downstream of the hole compared with that obtained by the first hole. The double injection provides a slight increase in the cooling effectiveness and a lower heat transfer coefficient due to the favorable interaction between both injections.


Author(s):  
H. D. Ammari ◽  
N. Hay ◽  
D. Lampard

Results are presented of an experimental investigation into the influence of mainstream acceleration on the heat transfer coefficient downstream of injection through a row of 35° holes in a flat plate. A mass transfer analogue technique was used, with two uniform acceleration parameters, K (=ν(du∞/dx)/u∞2), of 1.9 × 10−6 and 5.0 × 10−6 in addition to the zero acceleration base-line case. Two injectants, air and carbon dioxide, were employed to give coolant to mainstream density ratios of 1.0 and 1.52 respectively. The blowing rate varied from 0.5 to 2.0. The heat transfer coefficient beneath the film reduced progressively as the acceleration increased, with maximum reductions from the zero acceleration datum case of about 27%. In the presence of acceleration, the heat transfer coefficient at a given blowing rate was dependent on the density ratio, an increase in the density ratio leading to a decrease in the heat transfer coefficient. An empirical correlation of the data over most of the range of densities and blowing rates of the experiments has been developed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Jige ◽  
Shogo Kikuchi ◽  
Hikaru Eda ◽  
Norihiro Inoue ◽  
Shigeru Koyama

This study investigated the evaporation heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of R32 in a horizontal multiport tube consisting of rectangular minichannels with straight microfins. The heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop were measured for a mass velocity range of 50–400[Formula: see text]kgm[Formula: see text]s[Formula: see text] and heat flux range of 5–20[Formula: see text]kWm[Formula: see text] at a saturation temperature of 15[Formula: see text]C. The frictional pressure drop during an adiabatic two-phase flow was also measured for a mass velocity range of 50–400[Formula: see text]kgm[Formula: see text]s[Formula: see text] and quality range of 0.1–0.9 at the same saturation temperature. The heat transfer coefficient increased with an increasing quality owing to the increase in forced convection. The dryout inception quality increased with the increase in mass velocity. The effects of heat flux on the heat transfer coefficient were small, except in a high-quality region. The heat transfer coefficient in a multiport tube with microfins was higher than that in a multiport tube without microfins in a high-quality region at a mass velocity of 200[Formula: see text]kgm[Formula: see text]s[Formula: see text] and in a low-quality region at a mass velocity of 400[Formula: see text]kgm[Formula: see text]s[Formula: see text]. The effects of mass velocity and microfins on the frictional pressure drop were clarified. It is suspected that the effects of a microfin on the frictional pressured drop can be considered using the hydraulic diameter. The frictional pressure drop was shown to be in good agreement with previous correlations.


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