An Experimental Study on the Effects of Nozzle and Surface Geometry in FC-72 Jet Cooling

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
L.-H. Chien ◽  
T.-L. Wu

ABSTRACTIn this study, a spray cooling device for electronic components was investigated. Dielectric fuid (FC-72) was sprayed at 50°C through five nozzles (4.243mm spacing). The nozzles are of diameters 0.17, 0.23 or 0.41mm. Volume flow rate varied from 24.5 to 99.1ml/min. Two grooved surfaces and a smooth surface were tested, and the heated area was 12 × 12mm2. The larger nozzles yielded greater heat transfer coefficients at high heat fluxes (300 ∼ 600kW/m2). However, smaller nozzles result in greater dry-out heat fluxes and greater heat transfer coefficients at heat flux < 300kW/m2. The C4 surface, having parallel grooves of 0.4mm depth, improved the spray cooling performance by up to 80% as compared with the smooth suface. Its thermal resistance is 0.11 ∼ 0.12K/W at 99.1ml/min flow rate, in the range of 85 ∼ 130W heat input. A new correlation of spray cooling, accounting for the contributions of nucleate boiling and spray convection, is proposed. For data of FC-72 in the range of Re = 856 ∼ 6188, Bo = 0.19 ∼ 5.70, We = 25.2 ∼ 3541.3, the predicted h-values agree with experimental data of the smooth surface within ±25%.

1962 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. Swenson ◽  
J. R. Carver ◽  
G. Szoeke

In large, subcritical pressure, once-through power boilers heat is transferred to steam and water mixtures ranging in steam quality from zero per cent at the bottom of the furnace to 100 per cent at the top. In order to provide design information for this type of boiler, heat-transfer coefficients for forced convection film boiling were determined for water at 3000 psia flowing upward in a vertical stainless-steel tube, AISI Type 304, having an inside diameter of 0.408 inches and a heated length of 6 feet. Heat fluxes ranged between 90,000 and 180,000 Btu/hr-sq ft and were obtained by electrical resistance heating of the tube. The operation of the experimental equipment was controlled so that nucleate boiling, transition boiling, and stable film boiling occurred simultaneously in different zones of the tube. The film boiling data were correlated with a modified form of the equation Nu = a a(Re)m(Pr)n using steam properties evaluated at inside surface temperature. Results of a second series of heat-transfer tests with tubes having a helical rib on the inside surface showed that nucleate boiling could be maintained to much higher steam qualities with that type of tube than with a smooth-bore tube.


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 922-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Mu¨ller-Steinhagen ◽  
A. P. Watkinson ◽  
N. Epstein

Heat transfer coefficients for subcooled heptane were measured in two flow geometries for different heat fluxes, flow rates, bulk temperatures, and system pressures. Regimes of convective heat transfer and of nucleate boiling were delineated for a concentric annular test section containing an internally heated rod, and for a resistance-heated coiled wire mounted in crossflow. Second-order effects such as flow direction, hysteresis, and method of pressurization were also investigated.


2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
C.-J. Kuo ◽  
Y. Peles

Flow boiling was experimentally studied using coolant HFE-7000 for two types of parallel microchannels: a plain-wall microchannel and a microchannel with structured reentrant cavities on the side walls. Flow morphologies, boiling inceptions, heat transfer coefficients, and critical heat fluxes were obtained and studied for mass fluxes ranging from G=164 kg/m2 s to G=3025 kg/m2 s and mass qualities (energy definition) ranging from x=−0.25 to x=1. Comparisons of the performance of the enhanced and plain-wall microchannels were carried out. It was found that reentrant cavities were effective in reducing the superheat at the onset of nucleate boiling and increasing the heat transfer coefficient. However, they did not seem to increase the critical heat flux.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartosz Gil ◽  
Beata Fijałkowska

This paper investigates the nucleate boiling process of dimethyl ether and selected hydrocarbons. The main goal of this study is to measure the heat transfer coefficients of RE170, R600a, and R601, and to compare them with R134a. The experiments were carried out for heat fluxes up to 70 kW/m2. Experimental results have shown a typical trend that the heat transfer coefficient of flammable refrigerants increases as the heat flux increases. Among the tested fluids, the highest values of heat transfer coefficient were obtained for RE170. Available correlations describing this coefficient showed a deviation of up to 93%, as compared to the data obtained. The new correlation was developed by regression analysis taking into account dimensionless variables affecting the boiling process.


1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 753-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. C. Chan ◽  
M. Shoukri

Boiling characteristics of multitube bundles have been investigated experimentally. Small bundles of up to nine rows were used. Void fraction profiles in the test vessel, tube surface temperatures, power input to individual tubes, and critical heat fluxes were measured for different bundle arrangements and boiling conditions. The data were used to study the system hydrodynamics, bundle heat transfer coefficients, and bundle critical heat flux. The data showed that for lower heat fluxes, the heat transfer characteristics are affected by the system hydrodynamics resulting in higher heat transfer coefficients, whereas at higher heat fluxes nucleate boiling is the dominant mechanism. The data also showed that within a tube bundle, the vapor rising from lower tubes enhances the CHF characteristics of the upper tubes.


Author(s):  
K-J Park ◽  
D Jung ◽  
S E Shim

In this work, nucleate pool boiling heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) of five refrigerants of differing vapour pressures are measured on a horizontal, smooth copper surface of 9.53×9.53 mm. The tested refrigerants are R123, R152a, R134a, R22, and R32 and HTCs are taken from 10 kW/m2 to the critical heat flux (CHF) of each refrigerant. Wall and fluid temperatures are measured directly by thermocouples located underneath the test surface and in the liquid pool, respectively. Test results show that nucleate pool boiling HTCs of halogenated refrigerants increase as the heat flux and vapour pressure increase. This typical trend is maintained even at high heat fluxes above 200 kW/m2. Zuber's prediction equation for CHF is quite accurate showing a maximum deviation of 21 per cent for all refrigerants tested. For all refrigerants, Stephan and Abdelsalam's well-known correlation underpredicted nucleate boiling HTC data up to the CHF with an average deviation of 21.3 per cent, while Cooper's correlation overpredicted the data with an average deviation of 14.2 per cent. On the other hand, Gorenflo's and Jung et al.'s correlations showed 5.8 and 6.4 per cent deviations, respectively, in the entire nucleate boiling range up to the CHF.


Author(s):  
Adam G. Pautsch ◽  
Timothy A. Shedd

As electronic circuit design and packaging technology progresses, the density and power levels of electronic components is increasing at a nearly exponential rate. The higher heat loads dissipated by these devices are nearing the limits of traditional cooling techniques. One method capable of removing heat fluxes as high as 100 W/cm2 is spray cooling. This process involves the impingement of liquid droplets onto a heated surface, forming a thin two-phase film. In order to create reliable models of the heat transfer during spray cooling, the behavior of the film must be understood. This paper presents an investigation into the behavior of the thin film found in spray cooling. A study was performed to relate experimental measurements of the heat transfer coefficients to experimental measurements of film thickness as they vary spatially over a die surface. Both a single nozzle and a multi-nozzle array were investigated. Measured heat transfer coefficients ranged from 0.2 to 1.2 W/m2K and film thicknesses ranged from 90 to 300 μm.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
H. L. S. L. Leão ◽  
D. B. Marchetto ◽  
G. Ribatski

A comparative study of the performance of of refrigerants R134a, R407C, R245fa and R600a during flow boiling was performed for a 123x494 µm2 heat sink composed of 50 parallel rectangular microchannels. Heat transfer experimental results for heat fluxes up to 310 kW/m2, mass velocities from 300 to 800 kg/(m2 s), liquid subcoolings of 5 and 10 °C and saturation temperature close to 30 ºC were obtained. Global heat transfer coefficients (footprint) up to 10 kW/(m2 °C) were found. The liquid superheating necessary for the onset of nucleate boiling (ONB) was also characterized, and the fluids R245fa and R407C presented the highest and lowest, respectively, superheating to trigger the boiling process. Moreover, for a fixed averaged vapor quality, the average effective heat transfer coefficient increases with increasing mass velocity and liquid subcooling. The refrigerants R600a and R407C presented the highest and the lowest heat transfer coefficients, respectively. Five heat transfer predictive methods from literature provided accurate predictions of the data for R134a, R245fa and R600a, capturing most of the data trends. No one method provided accurate predictions of the heat transfer coefficient data of R407C.


Author(s):  
Francisco J. do Nascimento ◽  
Hugo L. S. L. Leão ◽  
Gherhardt Ribatski

In the present study, the thermal performance of a micro heat spreader based on flow boiling mechanism was evaluated. The heat spreader under study has a foot print area of 15 × 15 mm2 and is composed by 50 channels with width of 100 μm and depth of 500 μm. Experiments were performed for R134a, heat fluxes up to 310 kW/m2 (based on the foot print area), mass velocities from 400 to 1500 kg/m2s, saturation temperatures of approximately 25°C and liquid subcoolings of 5 and 15°C. Heat-sink averaged heat transfer coefficients based on the effective heat transfer area up to 9 kW/m2K were obtained. From the analyses of the experimental results, for a fixed heat-spreader averaged wall superheating, it was found that the dissipated heat flux increases with decreasing the mass velocity and liquid subcooling. Moreover, the trend with varying mass velocity of the difference between the heat spreader averaged superheating for the onset of nucleate boiling (ONB) and the respective value under boiling conditions is not clear, however it seems that its value increases with increasing the liquid subcooling. The wall superheating excess necessary for the onset of nucleate boiling becomes negligible for mass velocities higher than 1000 kg/m2s.


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