Heat Transfer Performance of an Air-Assisted Impinging Water Jet Under a Fixed Pumping Power Constraint

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Trainer ◽  
Sung Jin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Pattern ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Plug Flow ◽  
Water Jet ◽  
Air Injection ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Pumping Power ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Impingement Point

Air injection into a liquid impinging jet has been shown to be a method of improving non-phase change heat transfer rates by up to twice the normal amount. Previous work has shown that there exists an optimal operating point in terms of the volumetric fraction of air injection when the pumping power is held constant because of an optimal two-phase flow pattern. However, previous work focused on heat transfer from the impingement point only, and neglected performance at other points. The present work studies the local heat transfer performance of an air-assisted water jet, at the impingement point and at positions moving radially outward, under constant pumping power conditions. The area-averaged heat transfer is also considered. Heat transfer at the stagnation point is shown to be optimized between β = 0.1∼0.2, where a bubbly flow pattern exists. Nuavg(r/D ≤ 1) is optimized when the flow pattern was plug-flow and off-center peaks in Nur exist. Nuavg(r/D > 1) is optimized when the water is accelerated by the injected air, but splattering is avoided. Flow patterns have no direct effect outside the impingement region.

An Evaluation of the Application of Nanofluids in Intercooled Cycle Marine Gas Turbine Intercooler

2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ningbo Zhao ◽  
Xueyou Wen ◽  
Shuying Li
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Volume Concentration ◽  
Inlet Temperature ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Pumping Power ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Overall Performance

Coolant is one of the important factors affecting the overall performance of the intercooler for the intercooled (IC) cycle marine gas turbine. Conventional coolants, such as water and ethylene glycol, have lower thermal conductivity which can hinder the development of highly effective compact intercooler. Nanofluids that consist of nanoparticles and base fluids have superior properties like extensively higher thermal conductivity and heat transfer performance compared to those of base fluids. This paper focuses on the application of two different water-based nanofluids containing aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and copper (Cu) nanoparticles in IC cycle marine gas turbine intercooler. The effectiveness-number of transfer unit method is used to evaluate the flow and heat transfer performance of intercooler, and the thermophysical properties of nanofluids are obtained from literature. Then, the effects of some important parameters, such as nanoparticle volume concentration, coolant Reynolds number, coolant inlet temperature, and gas side operating parameters on the flow and heat transfer performance of intercooler, are discussed in detail. The results demonstrate that nanofluids have excellent heat transfer performance and need lower pumping power in comparison with base fluids under different gas turbine operating conditions. Under the same heat transfer, Cu–water nanofluids can reduce more pumping power than Al2O3–water nanofluids. It is also concluded that the overall performance of intercooler can be enhanced when increasing the nanoparticle volume concentration and coolant Reynolds number and decreasing the coolant inlet temperature.

Ultra-Compact Micro-Scale Heat Exchanger for Advanced Thermal Management in Datacenters

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele L. Amalfi ◽  
Todd Salamon ◽  
Filippo Cataldo ◽  
Jackson B. Marcinichen ◽  
John R. Thome
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Form Factor ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Cooling Technology ◽  
Cooling Loop ◽  
Two Phase Cooling

Abstract The present study is focused on the experimental characterization of two-phase heat transfer performance and pressure drops within an ultra-compact heat exchanger (UCHE) suitable for electronics cooling applications. In this specific work, the UCHE prototype is anticipated to be a critical component for realizing a new passive two-phase cooling technology for high-power server racks, as it is more compact and lighter weight than conventional heat exchangers. This technology makes use of a novel combination of thermosyphon loops, at the server-level and rack-level, to passively cool an entire rack. In the proposed two-phase cooling technology, a smaller form factor UCHE is used to transfer heat from the server-level thermosyphon cooling loop to the rack-level thermosyphon cooling loop, while a larger form factor UCHE is used to reject the total heat from the server rack into the facility-level cooling loop. The UCHE is composed of a double-side-copper finned plate enclosed in a stainless steel enclosure. The geometry of the fins and channels on both sides are optimized to enhance the heat transfer performance and flow stability, while minimizing the pressure drops. These features make the UCHE the ideal component for thermosyphon cooling systems, where low pressure drops are required to achieve high passive flow circulation rates and thus achieve high critical heat flux values. The UCHE’s thermal-hydraulic performance is first evaluated in a pump-driven system at the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer (LTCM-EPFL), where experiments include many configurations and operating conditions. Then, the UCHE is installed and tested as the condenser of a thermosyphon loop that rejects heat to a pumped refrigerant system at Nokia Bell Labs, in which both sides operate with refrigerants in phase change (condensation-to-boiling). Experimental results demonstrate high thermal performance with a maximum heat dissipation density of 5455 (kW/m3/K), which is significantly larger than conventional air-cooled heat exchangers and liquid-cooled small pressing depth brazed plate heat exchangers. Finally, a thermal performance analysis is presented that provides guidelines in terms of heat density dissipations at the server- and rack-level when using passive two-phase cooling.

Two-Phase Heat Transfer Performance of Dielectric Fluid HFE-7100 Within Multiport Microchannel

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lung-Yi Lin ◽  
Yeau-Ren Jeng ◽  
Chi-Chuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Single Phase ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Dielectric Fluid ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Two Phase Heat Transfer

This study presents convective single-phase and boiling two-phase heat transfer performance of HFE-7100 coolant within multi-port microchannel heat sinks. The corresponding hydraulic diameters are 450 and 237 μm, respectively. For single-phase results, the presence of inlet/outlet locations inevitably gives rise to considerable increase of total pressure drop of a multi-port microchannel heat sink whereas has virtually no detectable influence on overall heat transfer performance provided that the effect of entrance has been accounted for. The convective boiling heat transfer coefficient for the HFE-7100 coolant shows a tremendous drop when vapor quality is above 0.6. For Dh = 450 μm, it is found that the mass flux effect on the convective heat transfer coefficient is rather small.

scholarly journals Heat transfer performance of R1234yf for convective boiling in horizontal micro-fin and smooth tubes

2020 ◽  
Vol 207 ◽  
pp. 01009
Author(s):  
Thanh Nhan Phan ◽  
Van Hung Tran ◽  
Nikola Kaloyanov ◽  
Momchil Vassilev
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Pattern ◽  
Mass Flux ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Smooth Tube ◽  
Outer Diameter ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Convective Boiling ◽  
Penalty Factor ◽  
Smooth Tubes

This study analyses the performance of heat transfer process which occurs in the convective boiling of Hydro fluoro Olefin (HFO) refrigerant, R1234yf, in horizontal tube. Heat transfer and pressure drop of R1234yf are analyzed and computed at the same working conditions on the same size of outer diameter of tube do = 9.52 mm with difference of inner surface, one is a smooth surface and microfin for other. The flow pattern maps were built at 5°C saturation temperature with 8.62 kW/m2 of heat flux, it is presented that flow pattern of helix flow occurs at very low mass flux and low quality, while at that condition on smooth tube the flow is still stratified wavy flow. The comparison of heat transfer performance between microfin and smooth tube would be evaluated on enhancement factor E, penalty factor P and efficiency index I. With the mass flux on the range G = 111 -- 333 kg/m2s for 5°C boiling temperature, the results show that, average value of E is 2.18; 1.45 of P and 1.54 of I. One more impressing thing is that, at the quality “x” larger than 0.8, the dryout phenomenon takes place on smooth tubes while microfin tubes do not have this phenomenon.

An Experimental Study of Two Phase Flow in Impinging Micro Channels

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang-Han Chien ◽  
Han-Yang Liu ◽  
Wun-Rong Liao
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Micro Channels

A heat sink integrating micro-channels with multiple jets was designed to achieve better heat transfer performance for chip cooling. Dielectric fluid FC-72 was the working fluid. The heat sink contained 11 micro-channels, and each channel was 0.8 mm high, 0.6 mm wide, and 12 mm in length. There were 3 or 5 pores on each micro-channel. The pore diameters were either 0.24 or 0.4 mm, and the pore spacing ranged from 1.5 to 3 mm. In the tests, the saturation temperature of cooling device was set at 30 and 50°C, and the volume flow rate ranged from 9.1 to 73.6 ml/min per channel (total flow rate = 100∼810 ml/min). The experimental result showed that heat transfer performance increased with increasing flow rate for single phase heat transfer. For heat flux between 20 and 100 kW/m2, the wall superheat decreases with increasing flow rate at a fixed heat flux. However, the influence of the flow rate diminished when the channels are in two phase heat transfer regime. Except for the lowest flow rate (9.1 ml/min), the heat transfer performance increased with increasing jet diameter/spacing ratios. The best surface had three nozzles of 0.4 mm diameter in 3.0 mm jet spacing. It had the lowest thermal resistance of 0.0611 K / W in the range of 200 ∼ 240 W heat input.

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