scholarly journals Micro-Nano Scale Surface Coating for Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer: A Critical Review

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoukat Khan ◽  
Muataz Atieh ◽  
Muammer Koç
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Surface Coating ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Waste Heat ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Surface Geometry ◽  
Nano Scale ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer

Nucleate boiling is a phase change heat transfer process with a wide range of applications i.e., steam power plants, thermal desalination, heat pipes, domestic heating and cooling, refrigeration and air-conditioning, electronic cooling, cooling of turbo-machinery, waste heat recovery and much more. Due to its quite broad range of applications, any improvement in this area leads to significant economic, environmental and energy efficiency outcomes. This paper presents a comprehensive review and critical analysis on the recent developments in the area of micro-nano scale coating technologies, materials, and their applications for modification of surface geometry and chemistry, which play an important role in the enhancement of nucleate boiling heat transfer. In many industrial applications boiling is a surface phenomenon, which depends upon its variables such as surface area, thermal conductivity, wettability, porosity, and roughness. Compared to subtractive methods, the surface coating is more versatile in material selection, simple, quick, robust in implementation and is quite functional to apply to already installed systems. The present status of these techniques for boiling heat transfer enhancement, along with their future challenges, enhancement potentials, limitations, and their possible industrial implementation are also discussed in this paper.

Effects of Surface Coating on Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer From a Downward Facing Surface

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Dizon ◽  
J. Yang ◽  
F. B. Cheung ◽  
J. L. Rempe ◽  
K. Y. Suh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Surface Coating ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Severe Accident ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Porous Microstructure ◽  
Accident Conditions

As part of a joint U.S.-Korean International Nuclear Engineering Research Initiative investigating methods to enhance external reactor vessel cooling (ERVC) under severe accident conditions, it was proposed that surface coating be used to facilitate the process of downward-facing boiling. Toward this end, metallic micro-porous layer coatings were selected and different compositions of the coating material were evaluated to obtain a mixture with desirable qualities. Durability and adhesion tests were also done to study the performance of each of the resulting coatings. Quenching of the candidate coatings were then conducted under downward facing boiling conditions using hemispherical test vessels to obtain the local boiling curves. Compared to the case of plain vessel surface under identical experimental conditions, considerable enhancement was observed in nucleate boiling heat transfer and the critical heat flux (CHF) for the case with surface coatings. Optical and SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) photos showed that the candidate coating possessed the desired porous microstructure with interconnecting channels and pores, leading to appreciable increases in the boiling heat transfer and the local CHF limits.

An Overview: Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer in Fractal Media by Fractal Geometry and Technique

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boming Yu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Porous Media ◽  
Heat And Mass Transfer ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Fractal Geometry ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Fractal Media ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer

In the past three decades, fractal geometry and technique have received considerable attention due to its wide applications in sciences and technologies such as in physics, mathematics, geophysics, oil recovery, material science and engineering, flow and heat and mass transfer in porous media etc. The fractal geometry and technique may become particularly powerful when they are applied to deal with random and disordered media such as porous media, nanofluids, nucleate boiling heat transfer. In this paper, a summary of recent advances is presented in the areas of heat and mass transfer in fractal media by fractal geometry technique. The present overview includes a brief summary of the fractal geometry technique applied in the areas of heat and mass transfer; thermal conductivities of porous media and nanofluids; nucleate boiling heat transfer. A few comments are made with respect to the theoretical studies that should be made in the future.

Visualization of Boiling Heat Transfer on Micro Porous Coated Surface in Confined Space

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Yuh Yang ◽  
Chien-Fu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Heating Surface ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Confined Space ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Coated Surface

Numerous researches have been developed for pool boiling on microporous coated surface in the past decade. The nucleate boiling heat transfer was found to be increased by up to 4.5 times than that on uncoated surface. Recently, the two-phase micro heat exchangers have been considered for high flux electronic devices cooling. The enhancement techniques for improving the nucleate boiling heat transfer performance in the micro heat exchangers have gotten more importance. Previous studies of microporous coatings, however, have been restricted to boiling in unconfined space. No studies have been made on the feasibility of using microporous coatings for enhancing boiling in confined spaces. This study provides an experimental observation of the vapor generation and leaving processes on microporous coatings surface in a 1-mm confined space. It would be helpful for understanding the mechanism of boiling heat transfer and improving the design of two-phase micro heat exchangers. Aluminum particles of average diameter 20 μm were mixed with a binder and a carrier to develop a 150 μm thickness boiling enhancement paint on a 3.0 cm by 3.0 cm copper heating surface. The heating surface was covered by a thin glass plate with a 1 mm spacer to form a 1 mm vertical narrow space for the test section. The boiling phenomenon was recorded by a high speed camera. In addition to the three boiling regimes observed by Bonjour and Lallemand [1], i.e., isolated deformed bubbles, coalesced bubbles and partial dryout at low, moderate and high heat fluxes respectively in unconfined space, a suction and blowing process was observed at the highest heat flux condition. Owing to the space confinement, liquid was sucked and vapor was expelled periodically during the bubble generation process. This mechanism significantly enhanced the boiling heat transfer performance in confined space.

Pool Boiling Heat Transfer with Nanotube Arrays Surface on Titanium

2012 ◽  
Vol 550-553 ◽  
pp. 2913-2916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Liang Tao ◽  
Xin Liang Wang ◽  
Pei Hua Shi ◽  
Xiao Ping Shi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Test Fluid ◽  
Porous Coating ◽  
Pool Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficient

In this paper, a new porous coating was formed directly on the surface of titanium metal via anodic oxidation. And by the SEM, the morphology of the coating, which is composed of well-ordered perpendicular nanotubes, was characterized. Moreover, taking deionized water as the test fluid, a visualization study of the coating on its pool boiling heat transfer performance was made. The results demonstrated that compared with the smooth surface, the nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient can increase 3 times while the nucleate boiling super heat was reduced 30%.

Boiling Heat Transfer and Critical Heat Flux Enhancement of Upward- and Downward-Facing Heater in Nanofluids

2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhamad Zuhairi Sulaiman ◽  
Masahiro Takamura ◽  
Kazuki Nakahashi ◽  
Tomio Okawa
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Critical Heat Flux ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Flux Enhancement ◽  
Optimum Configuration ◽  
Wall Superheat ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer

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.

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