scholarly journals Numerical investigation on the heat transfer coefficient jump in tilted single-phase natural circulation loop and coupled natural circulation loop

Author(s):  
Akhil Dass ◽  
Sateesh Gedupudi
2009 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Spring ◽  
Diane Lauffer ◽  
Bernhard Weigand ◽  
Matthias Hase

A combined experimental and numerical investigation of the heat transfer characteristics inside an impingement cooled combustor liner heat shield has been conducted. Due to the complexity and irregularity of heat shield configurations, standard correlations for regular impingement fields are insufficient and detailed investigations of local heat transfer enhancement are required. The experiments were carried out in a perspex model of the heat shield using a transient liquid crystal method. Scaling of the model allowed to achieve jet Reynolds numbers of up to Rej=34,000 without compressibility effects. The local air temperature was measured at several positions within the model to account for an exact evaluation of the heat transfer coefficient. Analysis focused on the local heat transfer distribution along the heat shield target plate, side rims, and central bolt recess. The results were compared with values predicted by a standard correlation for a regular impingement array. The comparison exhibited large differences. While local values were up to three times larger than the reference value, the average heat transfer coefficient was approximately 25% lower. This emphasized that standard correlations are not suitable for the design of complex impingement cooling pattern. For thermal optimization the detailed knowledge of the local variation of the heat transfer coefficient is essential. From the present configuration, some concepts for possible optimization were derived. Complementary numerical simulations were carried out using the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code ANSYS CFX. The motivation was to evaluate whether CFD can be used as an engineering design tool in the optimization of the heat shield configuration. For this, a validation of the numerical results was required, which for the present configuration was achieved by determining the degree of accuracy to which the measured heat transfer rates could be computed. The predictions showed good agreement with the experimental results, both for the local Nusselt number distributions as well as for averaged values. Some overprediction occurred in the stagnation regions, however, the impact on overall heat transfer coefficients was low and average deviations between numerics and experiments were in the order of only 5–20%. The numerical investigation showed that contemporary CFD codes can be used as suitable means in the thermal design process.


Author(s):  
Tiago A. Moreira ◽  
Francisco J. do Nascimento ◽  
Gherhardt Ribatski

The scope of the present paper is the evaluation of the heat transfer coefficient during flow boiling of DI-water/silica nanofluid inside a 1.1 mm ID tube. The experiments were performed for nanoparticles and DI-water with both having thermal conductivities of the same order of magnitude (kDI-water = 0.6 W/mK, ksilica = 1.4 W/mK). So, it was possible investigating the effect of the nanoparticles on the heat transfer coefficient under condition of negligible thermal conductivity enhancement. Experiments were carried out for mass velocities of 200, 400 and 600 kg/m2s, heat fluxes from 60 kW/m2 to 350 kW/m2 and nanoparticles volumetric concentration of 0.001%, 0.01% and 0.1%. Moreover, flow boiling heat transfer data under similar experimental conditions were obtained for DI-water without nanoparticles before and after performing each nanofluid test. The experiments were performed at the same test section according to the following sequence: i) DI-water, ii) 0.001% vol. nanofluid, iii) DI-water, iv) 0.01% vol. nanofluid, v) DI-water, vi) 0.1% vol. nanofluid, and vii) DI-water. Such procedure was adopted in order to evaluate the influence of the deposition of nanoparticles at each concentration on the heat transfer coefficient. For single-phase flow the HTC decreases as the experiments were performed. The thermal resistance due to deposition of nanoparticles is relevant to the heat transfer coefficient for single-phase flow of nanofluids inside microchannels. The flow boiling HTC decreases with increasing the nanoparticle volumetric concentration from a concentration of 0.001%. Based on the flow boiling HTC behaviors for tests with pure DI-water before and after the nanofluid tests, the fact that the HTC decreases with increasing the nanoparticle volumetric concentration is not explained only by the deposition on the surface of a nanoparticle layer. Tests for pure DI-water before the tests of nanofluids (BBN condition) and after all the nanofluids tests (ABN 0.1% condition) presents similar heat transfer coefficients, despite the deposition of a nanoparticle layer on the surface.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Takada ◽  
Yasunori Yamamoto ◽  
Kosuke Ono

Abstract An isolation condenser (IC) is a passive core cooling system in boiling water reactors. The cooling performance of IC is deteriorated when hydrogen generated in the core flows into the IC pipes. In this study, we conducted high pressure experiments using natural circulation loop with non-condensable gas injection, where helium was used to simulate hydrogen effect on the IC. The reaching distance of steam in the heat transfer tube was estimated by observing the region where nucleate boiling occurred on the outer surface of the heat transfer tube, and the heat transfer coefficient was estimated. The heat transfer coefficient hardly changed when helium was injected to the loop that indicates injected helium was not accumulated in the heat transfer tube. The system pressure at quasi-steady state increased with increasing amount of the injected helium. Since the differential pressure at the down comer section increased by helium injection, the injected helium may be accumulated in the section, leading to increment of the system pressure.


Author(s):  
Peng Xu ◽  
Tao Zhou ◽  
Jialei Zhang ◽  
Juan Chen ◽  
Zhongguan Fu

Abstract There are many factors that can affect the heat transfer coefficient (HTC) of supercritical water in forced and natural circulation. The correlation between the factors with the HTC under different circulation modes has an important influence on the reactor core design. By extracting the experimental data of supercritical water in forced circulation and natural circulation, the grey correlation model was used to analyze the relational degree between these factors with HTC. The results show that: Under the condition of forced circulation, there is a positive correlation between the inlet temperature, mass flow velocity, the thickness of the grid body with the HTC of supercritical water, and the order is: mass flow velocity > inlet temperature > the thickness of the grid body; there is a negative correlation between the pressure, heat flux with the heat transfer coefficient of supercritical water, and the order is: pressure > heat flux. Under the condition of natural circulation, there is a positively correlation between heating power, inlet temperature and circulation flow rate with HTC, and the order of magnitude is: circulation flow rate > heating power > inlet temperature; diameter and pressure are negatively correlated with heat transfer coefficient, and the order of magnitude is: pressure > diameter. In the two circulation modes, mass flow rate is an important factor affecting the heat transfer capacity of supercritical water, while the effect of heat flux on the heat transfer coefficient is contrary.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Yoga Arob Wicaksono ◽  
Sudarno . ◽  
Nanang Suffiadi Akhmad

The performance of heat transfer on a car radiator can be improved by using nanofluids as working fluids. In this study analyzes the of heat transfer performance of Al2O3/water nanofluids that pass through cylindrical pipes in 3D using the CFD simulation method for single phase approach. This research studied the effect of nanofluid concentration  0.1, 0.5, 1 and 1.5% on the heat transfer coefficient. The Reynolds number is varied between 9000 to 23000 and the ambient temperature is constant. The results showed that 1.5% Al2O3/water nanofluid increasing heat transfer coefficient up to 5.7% compared to base fluid.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2088 (1) ◽  
pp. 012020
Author(s):  
O N Kabankov ◽  
V V Yagov ◽  
N O Zubov

Abstract The experimental and analytical study of single-phase flow and heat transfer in natural circulation loop has been carried out. Experiments were performed on water and ethanol that are the liquids with significantly different thermophysical properties. Experimental apparatus was a rectangular shaped loop with vertical flow up leg. The flow up and flow down legs of the loop are joined to the separator-condenser at the top of the loop. The upper limit of heat flux densities in the experiments was set with the consideration for flow regime to remain in single phase state along the whole heated length. Wall temperature time records being registered at different distances from the inlet to the heated zone indicate the occurrence of temperature fluctuations near the exit from heated zone even at relatively low heat flux densities. This fact displaces a complex changing of velocity profiles along the tube with vortex formation and occurrence of flow instability. Experimental data on longitudinal wall temperature distributions of heated section have been used to test a modified method of hydraulic calculation of the loop. It was pointed out that in spite of long year (since early 1950s) experimental, analytical and numerical investigations of natural circulation loops no suitable predicting recommendations for heat transfer and friction have been proposed till today for engineering hydraulic calculations of single-phase natural circulation loops.


TAPPI Journal ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 441-450
Author(s):  
HENRIK WALLMO, ◽  
ULF ANDERSSON ◽  
MATHIAS GOURDON ◽  
MARTIN WIMBY

Many of the pulp mill biorefinery concepts recently presented include removal of lignin from black liquor. In this work, the aim was to study how the change in liquor chemistry affected the evaporation of kraft black liquor when lignin was removed using the LignoBoost process. Lignin was removed from a softwood kraft black liquor and four different black liquors were studied: one reference black liquor (with no lignin extracted); two ligninlean black liquors with a lignin removal rate of 5.5% and 21%, respectively; and one liquor with maximum lignin removal of 60%. Evaporation tests were carried out at the research evaporator in Chalmers University of Technology. Studied parameters were liquor viscosity, boiling point rise, heat transfer coefficient, scaling propensity, changes in liquor chemical composition, and tube incrustation. It was found that the solubility limit for incrustation changed towards lower dry solids for the lignin-lean black liquors due to an increased salt content. The scaling obtained on the tubes was easily cleaned with thin liquor at 105°C. It was also shown that the liquor viscosity decreased exponentially with increased lignin outtake and hence, the heat transfer coefficient increased with increased lignin outtake. Long term tests, operated about 6 percentage dry solids units above the solubility limit for incrustation for all liquors, showed that the heat transfer coefficient increased from 650 W/m2K for the reference liquor to 1500 W/m2K for the liquor with highest lignin separation degree, 60%.


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