An Experimental Study of Transition and Film Boiling Heat Transfer in Liquid-Saturated Porous Bed

1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Fukusako ◽  
T. Komoriya ◽  
N. Seki

Experimental investigations of transition and film boiling in a liquid-saturated porous bed are reported. The porous bed contained in a vertical circular cylinder is made up of packed spherical beads whose diameters range from 1.0 to 16.5 mm, while the depth of the bed overlying the heating surface varies from 10 to 300 mm. Water and fluorocarbon refrigerants R-11 and R-113 are adopted as testing liquids. Special attention is focused on the effect of the diameter of spherical beads on boiling heat transfer in the transition boiling region. It is found that for the small bead diameters the steady boiling heat transfer rises monotonically with temperature from nucleate boiling through the film boiling region, without going through a local maximum.

Author(s):  
Magdalena Piasecka ◽  
Mieczyslaw E. Poniewski

The experimental investigations cover heat transfer of refrigerants R 123 and R 11 flowing through vertical minichannels of 40 mm wide rectangular section and depths of 1 mm, 1.5 mm and 2 mm. The heating foil, supplied with controlled direct current, constitutes one of the surfaces of the minichannel. The liquid crystal thermography technique is applied in order to measure the two-dimensional temperature field of the heating surface. The investigations focus on the transition from single-phase forced convection to nucleate boiling, i.e. in the zone of boiling incipience. The present work aims to examine and analyze how the selected parameters (inlet pressure, inlet liquid subcooling, liquid flow velocity) affect nucleate boiling incipience for various geometry (changeable depth) of the minichannel. Furthermore, the investigations are intended to develop a correlation for the calculations of the Nusselt number under the conditions of boiling incipience in the minichannel. The equations are derived as modifications of the already developed ones [Piasecka, 2002; Piasecka and Poniewski, 2003b,c; Piasecka et al., 2004] and as a function of changeable parameters in the experimental investigations.


2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Wu Fan ◽  
Jia-Qi Li ◽  
You-You Su ◽  
Huan-Li Wang ◽  
Ting Ji ◽  
...  

Pool film boiling was studied by visualized quenching experiments on stainless steel spheres in water at the atmospheric pressure. The surfaces of the spheres were coated to be superhydrophobic (SHB), having a static contact angle greater than 160 deg. Subcooled conditions were concerned parametrically with the subcooling degree being varied from 0 °C (saturated) to 70 °C. It was shown that film boiling is the overwhelming mode of heat transfer during the entire course of quenching as a result of the retention of stable vapor film surrounding the SHB spheres, even at very low wall superheat that normally corresponds to nucleate boiling. Pool boiling heat transfer is enhanced with increasing the subcooling degree, in agreement with the thinning trend of the vapor film thickness. The heat flux enhancement was found to be up to fivefold for the subcooling degree of 70 °C in comparison to the saturated case, at the wall superheat of 200 °C. A modified correlation in the ratio form was proposed to predict pool film boiling heat transfer from spheres as a function of the subcooling degree.


Author(s):  
Chien-Yuh Yang ◽  
Chien-Fu Liu

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.


1978 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 624-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Seki ◽  
S. Fukusako ◽  
K. Torikoshi

The characteristics of film boiling heat transfer from a heated horizontal circular brass plate to a pool of fluorocarbon R-11 are examined for the case in which only the top side of the plate is in contact with the liquid (facing upward) and for the case in which the bottom side of the plate is in contact with the liquid (facing downward). It is found that the film coefficient for the facing downwards orientation of the plate was found to be closely correlated by the following: Nu=0.35(L/CpΔT)Gr0.25·Pr0.25


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Benjamin ◽  
A. R. Balakrishnan

A model for nucleate pool boiling heat transfer of binary mixtures has been proposed based on an additive mechanism. The contributing modes of heat transfer are (i) the heat transferred by microlayer evaporation, (ii) the heat transferred by transient conduction during the reformation of the thermal boundary layer, and (iii) the heat transferred by turbulent natural convection. The model takes into account the microroughness of the heating surface which has been defined quantitatively. The model compares satisfactorily with data obtained in the present study and in the literature. These data were obtained on a variety of heating surfaces such as a vertical platinum wire, a horizontal stainless steel tube and flat horizontal aluminium, and stainless steel surfaces (with various surface finishes) thereby demonstrating the validity of the model.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. Kandlikar

A simple correlation was developed earlier by Kandlikar (1983) for predicting saturated flow boiling heat transfer coefficients inside horizontal and vertical tubes. It was based on a model utilizing the contributions due to nucleate boiling and convective mechanisms. It incorporated a fluid-dependent parameter Ffl in the nucleate boiling term. The predictive ability of the correlation for different refrigerants was confirmed by comparing it with the recent data on R-113 by Jensen and Bensler (1986) and Khanpara et al. (1986). In the present work, the earlier correlation is further refined by expanding the data base to 5246 data points from 24 experimental investigations with ten fluids. The proposed correlation, equations (4) and (5), along with the constants given in Tables 3 and 4, gives a mean deviation of 15.9 percent with water data, and 18.8 percent with all refrigerant data, and it also predicts the correct hTP versus x trend as verified with water and R-113 data. Additional testing with recent R-22 and R-113 data yielded the lowest mean deviations among correlations tested. The proposed correlation can be extended to other fluids by evaluating the fluid-dependent parameter Ffl for that fluid from its flow boiling or pool boiling data.


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