Experimental Study on Nucleation Site Interaction During Pool Nucleate Boiling by Using Three Artificial Cavities

Author(s):  
Takato Sato ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments were performed for water using heat transfer surfaces having unified cavities. Cylindrical holes of 10 μm in diameter and 40 μm in depth were formed on a mirror-finished silicon wafer of 0.2 mm in thickness using Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. This silicon plate was used as the heat transfer surface. The test heat transfer surface was heated by a semiconductor laser beam. Experiments were conducted in the range of up to 1.35 × 105 W/m2. When the cavity spacing was narrow such as S = 1 or 2 mm, the convection created by the departure of coalesced bubbles played a main role in heat transfer when the heat flux was low. As the heat flux was increased, the coalesced bubbles absorbed enough heat to become large while the frequent bubble departure was maintained. As a result of it, the latent heat term in heat transfer became large to approximately 40%. When the cavity spacing was wide such as S = 4 mm, a bubble absorbed heat enough to become large before departure and the coalescence of bubbles were not prominent. Thus, the latent heat term took approximately 50% in heat transfer. With an increase in the heat flux, the vertical coalescence became to happen quite frequently. This coalescence made convection vigorous to increase the heat transfer. As a result of it, the convection term increased to 60% and the latent term decreased to 40%.

Author(s):  
Takato Sato ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments were performed for water by using the well-controlled and -defined heat transfer surfaces. Artificial cavity(ies) was (were) created on the mirror-finished silicon plate of 0.525 mm thickness by utilizing the Micro-Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) technology. Each cavity had cylindrical shape. The diameter and the depth of the cavity were 10μm and 40μm, respectively. Experiments were performed in a range of a heat flux ∼6.0 × 104 W/m2 for distilled water. When the cavity interval was close, the horizontal and declining coalescence of bubble on the cavities were dominant. This vigorous bubble coalescence created strong convection. The heat carried by this convection took a main part in the heat transfer when cavities were close. As the cavity interval became wide, the horizontal and declining coalescence did not take place anymore. The coalescence was limited only to the vertical lift or no coalescence. In this situation, bubbles grew large on the cavities and absorbed latent heat sufficiently. Bubbles themselves took the main role of carrying heat away from the heat transfer surface when cavities were further apart.


Author(s):  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Kenta Hayashi

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments were performed for water at 0.101 MPa to examine the elementary process of the nucleate boiling. Heat transfer surface was made from a copper printed circuit board. Direct current was supplied to heat it up. The Bakelite plate of the backside of a copper layer was taken off at the center portion of the heat transfer surface. The instantaneous variation of the backside temperature of the heat transfer surface was measured with an infrared radiation camera. Bubble behavior was recorded with a high speed video camera. In the isolated bubble region, surface temperature was uniform during waiting time. When boiling bubble generation started, a large dip in the surface temperature was formed under the bubble. After the bubble left from the heat transfer surface, the surface temperature returned to former uniform temperature distribution. Surface temperature was not affected by the bubble generation beyond 1.6 mm from the center of the bubble. In the isolated bubble region, a convection term was approximately 80 % in total heat transfer rate. The importance of the three-phase interface line in the heat transfer should be checked carefully. In the intermediate and high heat flux region, the variation of surface temperature and heat flux were small. Rather those were close to their average values even at critical heat flux condition. It seemed that the large part of the heat transfer surface was covered with water even at the critical heat flux condition. The heat flux at the area that appeared to be the three-phase contact line was not so high and close to the average heat flux.


Author(s):  
Shinichiro Uesawa ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Mitsuhiko Shibata ◽  
Hiroyuki Yoshida

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments of the 3.5 - 10wt% NaCl solution, the real seawater and the 3.5 - 10wt% artificial seawater solution as well as distilled water for the basis of comparison were performed to examine the effect of salts on boiling heat transfer. Seawater was injected into the reactor cores in the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company. This study intended to provide base data to consider reactor core cooling by seawater. Boiling curves of the 3.5 - 10wt% NaCl solution, the real seawater and the 3.5 - 10wt% artificial seawater solutions as well as distilled water were well predicted with the Rohsenow pool nucleate boiling heat transfer correlation although the curves were a little shifted to the higher wall superheat region. The formation of secondary coalescent large bubble was suppressed in the experiments of the NaCl solutions, real seawater and the artificial seawater solutions, and small primary bubbles detached directly from the heat transfer surface. Sea salt deposition was observed only in the experiments of the 7.0wt% and 10wt% artificial seawater solutions. The deposited salt was calcium sulfate. Slow heat transfer surface temperature excursion occurred in the experiments of the 7.0wt% and 10wt% artificial seawater solutions after the heat flux was raised to 600 kW/m2 and 120 kW/m2, respectively. The critical heat flux of the 7.0wt% and 10wt% artificial seawater solutions were 600 kW/m2 and 120 kW/m2, respectively if the occurrence of the slow heat transfer surface temperature excursion was defined as the critical heat flux condition. The heat transfer surface temperature excursion might be caused by the growth of the deposited salt layer.


Author(s):  
Ryo Hateruma ◽  
Takato Sato ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake

Pool boiling heat transfer experiments were performed by using the well-controlled/defined heat transfer surface for water. Uni-size and -shape artificial cavities were created on the mirror-finished silicon plate by utilizing the MEMS technology. Experimental results agreed well with what were predicted by the traditional boiling theory. The mirror-finished surface showed only the tendency of natural circulation heat transfer. The artificial-cavity heat transfer surface followed the pool-nucleate boiling trend. The onset of the pool-nucleate boiling was well predicted by the traditional pool-nucleate boiling theory. These results indicated that the artificial cavities behave just like natural cavities. The results indicated the artificial cavities are quite useful and promising to examine the true features of complicated boiling that have been overshadowed by complicatedness. From recorded high speed video pictures, the coalescence of bubbles that were growing on the cavities were classified into four categories; the normal lift (no coalescence), the vertical coalescence, the declining coalescence and the horizontal coalescence. As the cavity interval was increased, the horizontal coalescence decreases to zero, the vertical coalescence also decreases, and on the contrary to these, vertical coalescence and normal lift increase. The cavity interval 3 mm (S/Lc ≈ 1.2) seemed to be the border whether the horizontal coalescence occurs or not.


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.


1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. Ammerman ◽  
S. M. You ◽  
Y. S. Hong

A unique method to determine the vapor volumetric flow rate above a heated wire utilizing a single photograph and laser-Doppler anemometry is developed and discussed. The volumetric flow rate is combined with additional analyses to determine the overall contributions to the total heat flux from four nucleate boiling heat transfer mechanisms (latent heat, natural convection, Marangoni flow, and microconvection). This method is applied to a 75-μm wire immersed in a saturated, highly wetting liquid (FC-72). Latent heat is identified as the dominant mechanism in the fully developed nucleate boiling regime.


Author(s):  
Takato Sato ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments were performed for water using heat transfer surfaces having a unified cavity. A single cylindrical hole of 10 μm in diameter and 40 μm in depth was formed on a mirror-finished silicon wafer of 0.2 mm in thickness using the Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. This silicon plate was used as the heat transfer surface. The back side of the heat transfer surface was heated by a semi-conductor laser beam. The back-side surface temperature was measured by a radiation thermograph with a temperature resolution of 0.08 K and a time resolution of 3 ms/line. Experiments were conducted in the range up to 1.35 × 105 W/m2. The standard deviations of the local fluctuating heat transfer surface temperature were calculated. So the cross-correlation coefficients between the cavity center and a certain point were calculated by using the standard deviations and the time-series surface temperature data. Then, the intensity of the thermal influence exerted by the boiling bubbles on the local position was derived. The thermal influence extents determined from the intensity were 2.1 – 3.3 times larger than the mean diameter of all departure bubbles in the present experimental range.


Author(s):  
Hongsheng Yuan ◽  
Sichao Tan ◽  
Kun Cheng ◽  
Xiaoli Wu ◽  
Chao Guo ◽  
...  

The flow rate can fluctuate in offshore nuclear power systems which are exposed to wind and waves, as well as in loops where flow instabilities occur, resulting in different thermal-hydraulic characteristics compared with that under steady flow. Among the thermal-hydraulic characteristics, onset of nucleate boiling (ONB) model determines whether the fluid is boiling, and boiling heat transfer is crucial to equipment performance and safety, both being key issues in subcooled flow boiling. Therefore, an experimental study was conducted to investigate how an imposed periodic flow oscillation affects the boiling inception and heat transfer of subcooled flow boiling of water in a vertical tube. The experiments were conducted under atmospheric pressure with the average flow rate ranging from 96kg/m2s to 287kg/m2s and heat flux ranging from 10kW/m2 to 197kW/m2. The relative pulsatile amplitude range is 0.1–0.3 and pulsatile period range is 10s-30s. Photographic images and thermal parameters such as temperatures and flow rate were recorded. The lack of nucleation site on the heated surface of the test section results in high wall superheat at ONB. The effects of pulsatile amplitude and period on superheat at boiling onset and average heat transfer were analyzed. The results show that the superheat at boiling inception is decreased when the average heat flux is lower than the heat flux at boiling inception of the corresponding steady flow, and the superheat at boiling onset is increased when the average heat flux is higher than the heat flux at boiling onset of the corresponding steady flow. The above effect of flow rate pulsation on superheat increases with increasing amplitude and decreasing period, and the mechanism can be explained by boiling nucleation theory. The lack of large active nucleation site also affects the boiling heat transfer. By comparing the contribution of nucleate boiling to heat transfer with the widely used Cooper’s pool boiling correlation, the subcooled flow boiling was found suppressed by convection. The average heat transfer of both the intermittent flow boiling and the single phase flow is influenced by flow oscillation.


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.


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.


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