Comparison of Nucleation Site Density for Pool Boiling and Gas Nucleation

2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusen Qi ◽  
James F. Klausner
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleation Site ◽  
Stainless Steel Surface ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Site Density ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Steel Surfaces ◽  
Nucleation Site Density

It has been well established that the rate of heat transfer associated with boiling systems is strongly dependent on the nucleation site density. Over many years attempts have been made to predict nucleation site density in boiling systems using a variety of techniques. With the exception of specially prepared surfaces, these attempts have met with little success. This paper presents an experimental investigation of nucleation site density measured on roughly polished brass and stainless steel surfaces for gas nucleation and pool boiling over a large parameter space. A statistical model used to predict the nucleation site density in saturated pool boiling is also investigated. The fluids used for this study, distilled water and ethanol, are moderately wetting and highly wetting, respectively. Using distilled water it has been observed that the trends of nucleation site density versus the inverse of the critical radius are similar for pool boiling and gas nucleation. The nucleation site density is higher for gas nucleation than for pool boiling. An unexpected result has been observed with ethanol as the heat transfer fluid, which casts doubt on the general assumption that heterogeneous nucleation in boiling systems is exclusively seeded by vapor trapping cavities. Due to flooding, few sites are active on the brass surface and at most two are active on the stainless steel surface during gas nucleation experiments. However, nucleation sites readily form in large concentration on both the brass and stainless steel surfaces during pool boiling. The pool boiling nucleation site densities for ethanol on rough and mirror polished brass surfaces are also compared. It shows that there is not a significant difference between the measured nucleation site densities on the smooth and rough surfaces. These results suggest that, in addition to vapor trapping cavities, another mechanism must exist to seed vapor bubble growth in boiling systems.

Comparison of Gas Nucleation and Pool Boiling Site Densities

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusen Qi ◽  
James F. Klausner
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleation Site ◽  
Nucleation Theory ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
General Validity ◽  
Site Density ◽  
Steel Surfaces ◽  
Nucleation Site Density

It has been well established that the rate of heat transfer associated with boiling systems is strongly dependent on the nucleation site density. Over many years attempts have been made to predict nucleation site density in boiling systems using a variety of techniques. With the exception of specially prepared surfaces, these attempts have met with little success. This paper presents an experimental investigation of nucleation site density measured on roughly polished brass and stainless steel surfaces for gas nucleation and pool boiling over a large parameter space. The fluids used for this study, distilled water and ethanol, are moderately wetting and highly wetting, respectively. Using distilled water it has been observed that the trends of nucleation site density versus the inverse of the critical radius are similar for pool boiling and gas nucleation. The nucleation site density is higher for gas nucleation than for pool boiling. An unexpected result has been observed with ethanol as the heat transfer fluid, which casts doubt on the general validity of heterogeneous nucleation theory. Due to flooding, few sites are active on the brass surface and at most two are active on the stainless steel surface during gas nucleation experiments. However, nucleation sites readily form in large concentration on both the brass and stainless steel surfaces during pool boiling. The nucleation site densities for the rough and mirror polished brass surfaces are also compared. It shows that there is no large difference for the measured nucleation site density.

Saturated Nucleate Pool Boiling of Ethanol-Water Binary Mixtures on Smooth and Enhanced Laser Processed Metal Surfaces

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matevž Zupančič ◽  
Jure Voglar ◽  
Peter Gregorčič ◽  
Iztok Golobič ◽  
Peter Zakšek
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Binary Mixtures ◽  
Pure Water ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleation Site ◽  
Site Density ◽  
Nucleation Frequency ◽  
Nucleation Site Density

Pool boiling experiments of water and ethanol-water binary mixtures were conducted on smooth and laser textured stainless steel foils. High-speed IR thermography was used to measure transient temperature field during boiling in order to determine nucleation frequencies, nucleation site densities, bubble activation temperatures, wall-temperature distributions and average superheats as well as heat transfer coefficients. Saturated pool boiling experiments were conducted at atmospheric pressure over a heat flux range of 5–250 kW m−2 for pure water and ethanol-water mixtures (1% and 10% m/m). For both mixtures and both types of surfaces we measured significant decrease in average heat transfer coefficient and increase in bubble activation temperatures in comparison to pure water. However, laser textured surface in average provided around 60% higher nucleation frequency and more than 100% higher nucleation site density compared to smooth surface for both of the tested binary mixtures. Consequentially, heat transfer coefficient was enhanced for more than 30%. Our results show that laser textured surfaces can improve boiling performance for water and ethanol-water mixtures, but at the same time the addition of ethanol reduces heat transfer coefficient despite the enhancement of nucleation site density and nucleation frequency. This is also in agreement with available experimental data and existing theoretical models.

scholarly journals Enhancement of the pool boiling heat transfer coefficient using the gas injection into the water

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.M. Sarafraz ◽  
S.M. Peyghambarzadeh ◽  
S.A. Alavi Fazel
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleation Site ◽  
Pool Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Site Density ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Nucleation Site Density

Abstract In this paper, a new method for enhancing the pool boiling heat transfer coefficient of pure liquid, based on the gas injection through the liquids has been introduced. Hence, the effect of gas dissolved in a stagnant liquid on pool boiling heat transfer coefficient, nucleation site density, and bubble departure diameter has experimentally been investigated for different mole fractions of SO2 and various heat fluxes up to 114 kW/ m2. The presence of SO2 in captured vapor inside the bubbles, particularly around the heat transfer surface increases the pool boiling heat transfer coefficient. The available predicted correlations are unable to obtain the reasonable values for pool boiling heat transfer coefficient in this particular case. Therefore, to predict the pool boiling heat transfer coefficient accurately, a new modified correlation based on Stephan-Körner relation has been proposed. Also, during the experiments, it is found that nucleation site density is a strictly exponential function of heat flux. Accordingly, a new correlation has been obtained to predict the nucleation site density. The major application of the nucleation site density is in the estimating of mean bubble diameters as well as local agitation due to the rate of bubble frequency.

Pool Boiling on Polished and Chemically Etched Stainless-Steel Surfaces

1968 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. Vachon ◽  
G. E. Tanger ◽  
D. L. Davis ◽  
G. H. Nix
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Surface Roughness ◽  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
304 Stainless Steel ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Preparation Technique ◽  
Nucleation Sites ◽  
Steel Surfaces

This paper presents pool boiling data at atmospheric pressure for mechanically polished and chemically etched 304 stainless-steel surfaces in contact with distilled water. The surfaces were prepared by these techniques to produce variation in nucleation sites. Surface roughness was varied from 2–61 rms. The results show the changes in heat transfer with varying rms surface roughness and preparation technique. The Rohsenow pool boiling correlation was used to discuss the data.

A NEW ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR HEAT TRANSFER IN POOL BOILING

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1229-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
BOQI XIAO
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Statistical Treatment ◽  
Nucleation Site ◽  
Contact Angles ◽  
Site Density ◽  
Wall Superheat ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Nucleation Site Density ◽  
Good Agreement

In this paper, dependence of active nucleation site density on boiling surfaces are developed. For pool boiling heat transfer, a mathematical model is derived based on statistical treatment using the probability density function of the cavity mouth radius and existing correlation for active nucleation site density, the volume of single bubble at departure, the bubble departure diameter and the bubble departure frequency. The proposed model is expressed as a function of wall superheat, the contact angle, maximum and minimum active cavities, and physical properties of fluid. It is shown that the wall heat flux can be determined by the consideration of the variation of the cavity mouth radius. A good agreement between the proposed model predictions and experimental data is found for different contact angles. It also turns out that the present model explains well the mechanism on how wettability affects the pool boiling.

Creation of Nano-Scaled Surface Structure for the Enhancement of Boiling Heat Transfer

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sho Ngai ◽  
A. I. Leontiev ◽  
John R. Lloyd ◽  
S. P. Malyshenko
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Nucleation Site ◽  
Glancing Angle Deposition ◽  
Surface Structures ◽  
Transfer Enhancement ◽  
Site Density ◽  
Glancing Angle ◽  
Angle Deposition ◽  
Nucleation Site Density

The present research is an experimental investigation of nucleate pool boiling heat transfer enhancement on a surface with micro/nano-scaled surface structures. Glancing Angle Deposition (GLAD) was employed to fabricate porous surfaces in this study. The thin film microstructure consists of closely packed columns oriented in the plane of incidence formed due to a self-shadowing mechanism. Boiling heat transfer from the nano-structured surface was compared to that of a smooth reference surface and the commercial High Flux surface. The results of this study have shown that nano-structured films created by the GLAD process increase the nucleation site density as compared to the smooth surface. This research has opened up new areas in the field of heat transfer, which motivate new surface coating concepts to enhance the understanding of boiling heat transfer on nano-structured films.

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