Effect of Bubble Stabilization on Pool Boiling Heat Transfer

1970 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 635-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. Fuls ◽  
G. E. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Temperature Difference ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Heating Surface ◽  
Liquid Column ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Pool Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Per Se

It is an established phenomenon that bubbles can be stabilized in a vertically vibrating liquid column. The effect of bubble stabilization on the rate of pool boiling heat transfer is experimentally investigated. With the liquid and heating surface vibrating as a unit, the data indicates a decrease of up to 12 percent in the temperature difference necessary for a given heat flux within the range of frequencies from 200 to 300 cps. The experimental results and comparison with results of previous investigators show that the effect is unique and not due simply to the vibrations per se.

Characteristics of Pool Boiling Bubble Dynamics in Bead Packed Porous Structures

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin H. Li ◽  
Ting Li ◽  
Paul Hodgins ◽  
G. P. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Bubble Dynamics ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Heating Surface ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Porous Structures ◽  
Pool Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Simulation Results

Spherical glass and copper beads have been used to create bead packed porous structures for an investigation of two-phase heat transfer bubble dynamics under geometric constraints. The results demonstrated a variety of bubble dynamics characteristics under a range of heating conditions. At low heat flux of 18.9 kW/m2, a single spherical bubble formed at nucleation sites of a heating surface and departed to the interstitial spaces of porous structure. When heat flux increased to 47 kW/m2, a single bubble grew into a Y shape between beads layers and connected with others to generate a horizontal vapor column. As heat flux reached 76.3 kW/m2, vertical vapor columns obtained strong momentum to form several major vapor escaping arteries, and glass beads were pushed upward by the vapor in the escaping arteries. According to Zuber’s hydrodynamics theory, choking will take place when the size of vapor columns reaches a certain value that is comparable to the critical hydrodynamic wavelength of the vapor column in plain surface pool boiling. The experimental and simulation results of this investigation illustrated that, under the geometric constrains of bead packed porous structures, similar characteristics had been induced to trigger the earlier occurrence of vapor column chocking inside porous structures. The bubble generation, growth, and detachment during the nucleate pool boiling heat transfer have been filmed, the heating surface temperatures and heat flux were recorded, and theoretical models have been employed to study bubble dynamic characteristics. Computer simulation results were combined with experimental observations to clarify the details of the vapor bubble growth process and the liquid water replenishing the inside of the porous structures. This investigation has clearly shown, with both experimental and computer simulation evidence, that the millimeter scale bead packed porous structures could greatly influence pool boiling heat transfer by forcing a single bubble to depart at a smaller size as compared to that in a plain surface situation at low heat flux situations, and could trigger the earlier occurrence of critical heat flux (CHF) by trapping the vapor into interstitial space and forming a vapor column net. The results also proved data for further development of theoretical models of pool boiling heat transfer in bead packed porous structures.

Experimental and Mechanism Investigation on Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics of Alumina/Water Nanofluid on a Cylindrical Tube

NANO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1950124
Author(s):  
Hao Zhang ◽  
Zeng-en Li ◽  
Shan Qing ◽  
Zhuangzhuang Jia ◽  
Jiarui Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Particle Deposition ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Heating Surface ◽  
Cylindrical Tube ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Pool Boiling Heat Transfer

Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer experiments have been conducted to nanofluids on a horizontal cylinder tube under atmospheric pressure. The nanofluids are prepared by dispersing Al2O3 nanoparticles into distilled water at concentrations of 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1 and 2[Formula: see text]wt.% with or without sodium, 4-dodecylbenzenesulfonate (SDBS). The experimental results showed that: nanofluids at lower concentrations (0.001[Formula: see text]wt.% to 1[Formula: see text]wt.%) can obviously enhance the pool boiling heat transfer performance, but signs of deterioration can be observed at higher concentration (2[Formula: see text]wt.%). The presence of SDBS can obviously enhance the pool boiling heat transfer performance, and with the presence of SDBS, a maximum enhancement ratio of BHTC of 69.88%, and a maximum decrease ratio of super heat of 41.12% can be found in Group NS5 and NS4, respectively. The tube diameter and wall thickness of heating surface are the influential factors for boiling heat transfer coefficient. Besides, we find that Rohsenow formula failed to predict the characteristics of nanofluids. The mechanism study shows that: the decrease of surface tension, which leads to the decrease of bubble departure diameter, and the presence of agglomerates in nanofluids are the reasons for the enhanced pool boiling heat transfer performance. At higher concentration, particle deposition will lead to the decrease of distribution density of the vaporization core, and as a result of that, the boiling heat transfer performance will deteriorate.

Nucleate Pool Boiling Heat Transfer of R134a and R134a-PVE Lubricant Mixtures on Smooth and Five Enhanced Tubes

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Tao Ji ◽  
Ding-Cai Zhang ◽  
Nan Feng ◽  
Jian-Fei Guo ◽  
Mitsuharu Numata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Saturation Temperature ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pool Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Enhanced Tubes ◽  
Mass Fractions

Pool boiling heat transfer coefficients of R134a with different lubricant mass fractions for one smooth tube and five enhanced tubes were tested at a saturation temperature of 6°C. The lubricant used was polyvinyl ether. The lubrication mass fractions were 0.25%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 2.0%, 3.0%, 5.0%, 7.0%, and 10.0%, respectively. Within the tested heat flux range, from 9000 W/m2 to 90,000 W/m2, the lubricant generally has a different influence on pool boiling heat transfer of these six tubes.

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