scholarly journals Effects of Surface Conditions on Nucleate Pool Boiling of Sodium

1966 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Marto ◽  
W. M. Rohsenow
Keyword(s):  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Boiling Curve ◽  
Porous Coatings ◽  
Surface Conditions ◽  
Effect Of Pressure ◽  
Pool Depth ◽  
Commercial Grade ◽  
Surface Finishes

Commercial grade sodium was boiled from a horizontal disk at pressures of 65 mm, 200 mm, and 400 mm Hg absolute, with sodium temperatures ranging from 1200 F to 1500 deg F. Heat fluxes as high as 236,000 Btu/hr sq ft were attained. Boiler surface finishes ranged from highly polished mirror finishes to coarse, porous coatings. By following a prescribed cleaning and filling procedure, nucleate-boiling results were generally reproducible for a given-type surface. The effect of roughness as well as any aging and hysteresis effects were experimentally determined. Incipient nucleate boiling results are discussed as well as the effect of pressure and pool depth on the nucleate-boiling curve.

Parametric Study of Pool Boiling on Horizontal Highly Conductive Microporous Coated Surfaces

2007 ◽  
Vol 129 (11) ◽  
pp. 1465-1475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Li ◽  
G. P. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Coating Thickness ◽  
Copper Wire ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Porous Coatings ◽  
Surface Conditions ◽  
Porous Surfaces ◽  
Coated Surfaces

To better understand the mechanisms that govern the behavior of pool boiling on horizontal highly conductive microporous coated surfaces, a series of experimental investigations were designed to systematically examine the effects of the geometric dimensions (i.e., coating thickness, volumetric porosity, and pore size, as well as the surface conditions of the porous coatings) on the pool-boiling performance and characteristics. The study was conducted using saturated distilled water at atmospheric pressure (101kPa) and porous surfaces fabricated from sintered isotropic copper wire screens. For nucleate boiling on the microporous coated surfaces, two vapor ventilation modes were observed to exist: (i) upward and (ii) mainly from sideways leakage to the unsealed sides and partially from the center of porous surfaces. The ratio of the heater size to the coating thickness, the friction factor of the two-phase flow to single-phase flow inside the porous coatings, as well as the input heat flux all govern the vapor ventilation mode that occurs. In this investigation, the ratio of heater size to coating thickness varies from 3.5 to 38 in order to identify the effect of heater size on the boiling characteristics. The experimental results indicate that the boiling performance and characteristics are also strongly dependent on the volumetric porosity and mesh size, as well as the surface conditions when the heater size is given. Descriptions and discussion of the typical boiling characteristics; the progressive boiling process, from pool nucleate boiling to film boiling; and the boiling performance curves on conductive microporous coated surfaces are all systematically presented.

Nucleate Boiling Instability of Alkali Metals

1966 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Marto ◽  
W. M. Rohsenow
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Alkali Metals ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Bubble Nucleation ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Surface Material ◽  
Commercial Grade ◽  
Surface Finishes ◽  
Stability Model

A simplified theoretical model for bubble nucleation stability has been proposed, and an approximate stability criterion has been developed. This criterion contains both fluid and surface properties, and it predicts that nucleation for sodium should be unstable. Commercial-grade sodium was boiled from a horizontal disk at pressures near 60 mm Hg absolute, with sodium temperatures near 1200 F. Heat fluxes as high as 236,000 Btu/hr ft2 were attained. Boiler surface finishes ranged from highly polished mirror finishes to coarse, porous coatings. The effects of surface material, chemical treatment, heat flux, and cavity geometry on nucleation stability were measured, and the experimental results agreed with the predictions of the proposed stability model.

Heat Transfer to Pool-Boiling Mercury From Horizontal Cylindrical Heaters at Heat Fluxes up to Burnout

1971 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Brent Turner ◽  
C. Phillip Colver
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Boiling Curve ◽  
304 Stainless Steel ◽  
Pool Depth ◽  
Flux Level

Reproducible and consistent data were obtained for heat transfer to pool-boiling mercury from horizontal, 304 stainless steel, cylindrical heaters at heat fluxes up to 1,100,000 Btu/hr· ft2. One actual burnout determination was made during the course of the study. In other runs, a heat-flux level was reached where the slope of the boiling curve decreased significantly so that subsequent increases in heat flux were accompanied by large increases in ΔT. This heat-flux level was termed the “departure heat flux.” Observed maximum departure heat fluxes ranged from 400,000 Btu/hr·ft2 for a 2-in. pool depth above the heater to 950,000 Btu/hr·ft2 for an 8.5-in. depth. The burnout correlations of Noyes [17, 22] and Addoms [1] satisfactorily predicted the maximum departure heat fluxes for each pool depth studied.

Pool Boiling of n-Pentane, CFC-113, and Water Under Reduced Gravity: Parabolic Flight Experiments With a Transparent Heater

1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 408-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Oka ◽  
Y. Abe ◽  
Y. H. Mori ◽  
A. Nagashima
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Parabolic Flight ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Glass Plate ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Rear Side ◽  
Heater Surface ◽  
Reduced Gravity ◽  
Liquid Behavior

A series of pool boiling experiments have been conducted under reduced gravity condition (the order of 10−2 times the terrestrial gravity) available in an aircraft taking parabolic flight. A transparent resistant heater, a transparent indium oxide film plated on a glass plate, was employed so that the vapor/liquid behavior interacting with the heater surface could be observed from the rear side of the heater simultaneously with the side view of vapor bubbles above the heater surface. The experiments were performed for three different fluids—n-pentane, CFC-113, and water—under subcooled conditions. The critical heat fluxes for both n-pentane and CFC-113 under the reduced gravity were lowered to about 40 percent of the corresponding terrestrial values. Although the heat transfer characteristics in a low heat flux nucleate boiling regime for both n-pentane and CFC-113 showed no more than a slight change with the reduction in gravity, a significant heat transfer deterioration was noted with water in the reduced gravity boiling. The observation from the rear side of the heater suggested that this particular difference in the gravity dependency of heat transfer was ascribed to a considerable difference, between the organic fluids and water, in the behavior of attachment to the heater surface of the bubbles grown up, while the behavior of attachment must depend on the surface tension of each fluid and the wettability of the heater surface with the fluid.

Experimental and Numerical Study of the Effects of Asymmetric Micro Ratchets on Pool Boiling Performance

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance Brumfield ◽  
Sunggook Park
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Heated Surface ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
Central Processing

Nucleate boiling is an attractive method for achieving high heat flux at low superheat temperatures. It is frequently used for industrial applications such as heat exchangers and is being considered to cool advanced central processing units (CPU) which produce heat fluxes on the order of 1 MW/m2 and are becoming increasingly less efficient to cool via forced conduction of air. The issues with implementing nucleate boiling as a cooling mechanism lies in the difficulty of quantifying the complex and numerous mechanisms which control the process. A comprehensive nucleate boiling model has yet to be formulated and will be required in order to safely and reliably cool high performance electronics. Spatially periodic systems with localized asymmetric surface structures (ratchets) can induce directed transport of matter (liquid/particles) in the absence of net force. It was hypothesized that ratchets may enhance pool boiling heat transfer by aiding in the removal of vapor which forms on the heated surface. Therefore, experiments on pool boiling using asymmetric micro ratchets of various geometries, with FC-72 as the working fluid, were investigated. Additionally, various numerical pool boiling simulations were performed using FLUENT to better understand the underlying physical principles behind pool boiling.

An Experimental Study of Miniature-Scale Pool Boiling

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (6) ◽  
pp. 1074-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tailian Chen ◽  
Jacob N. Chung
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Boiling Curve ◽  
Feedback Control System ◽  
Electronic Feedback ◽  
Fundamental Understanding ◽  
Peak Heat Flux ◽  
Different Temperatures

By generating single bubbles on a micro-heater at different wall superheats, an experimental study of miniature-scale pool boiling heat transfer has been performed to provide a fundamental understanding of the heater size effect. In this study, the constant-temperature microheater is set at different temperatures by an electronic feedback control system. The heat transfer history during the lifetime of a single bubble which includes nucleation, growth, detachment and departure has been measured. The boiling curve obtained from the microheater is composed of two regimes which are separated by a peak heat flux. It is suggested that in the lower superheat regime, the boiling is dominated by liquid rewetting and micro-layer evaporation, while in the higher superheat regime, conduction through the vapor film and micro-convection plays the key heat transfer role as the heater is covered by vapor all the time. In general, boiling on microheaters is characterized by larger bubble departure sizes, smaller bubble growth rates due to the dryout of microlayer as the bubble grows, and higher bubble incipience superheat. As the heater size decreases, the boiling curve shifts towards higher heat fluxes with corresponding higher superheats.

Pool Boiling in Saturated and Subcooled FC-72 Dielectric Fluid From a Porous Graphite Surface

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed S. El-Genk ◽  
Jack L. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Porous Coating ◽  
Dielectric Fluid ◽  
Subcooled Boiling ◽  
Porous Graphite ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
Boiling Incipience

Experiments are conducted that investigated pool boiling of FC-72 liquid at saturation and 10, 20, and 30 K subcooling on porous graphite and smooth copper surfaces measuring 10 × 10 mm. The nucleate boiling heat flux, Critical Heat Flux (CHF), and surface superheats at boiling incipience are compared. Theses heat fluxes are also compared with those of other investigators for smooth copper and silicon, etched SiO2, surfaces and micro-porous coating. No temperature excursion at boiling incipience on the porous graphite that occurred at a surface superheats of < 1.0 K. Conversely, the temperature excursions of 24.0 K and 12.4–17.8 K are measured at incipient boiling in saturation and subcooled boiling on copper. Nucleate boiling heat fluxes on porous graphite are significantly higher and corresponding surface superheats are much smaller than on copper. CHF on porous graphite (27.3, 39.6, 49.0, and 57.1 W/cm2 in saturation and 10 K, 20 K, and 30 K subcooled boiling, respectively) are 61.5%–207% higher than those on copper (16.9, 19.5, 23.6, and 28.0 W/cm2, respectively). The surface superheats at CHF on the porous graphite of 11.5 K in saturation and 17–20 K in subcooled boiling are significantly lower that those on copper (25 K and 26–28 K, respectively). In addition, the rate of increase of CHF on porous graphite with increased subcooling is ~ 125% higher than that on copper.

Optimization of Enhanced Surfaces for High Flux Chip Cooling by Pool Boiling

1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Mudawar ◽  
T. M. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Metallic Surface ◽  
High Flux ◽  
Base Area ◽  
Chip Cooling ◽  
Low Profile

A high flux electronic chip was numerically and experimentally simulated to investigate pool boiling capabilities of enhanced metallic surface attachments built upon a 12.7 × 12.7 mm2 base area. It is shown how experimental nucleate boiling data for a flat chip and for chips with low-profile microstructures can be used as input boundary conditions in the numerical prediction of boiling performances of high flux, smooth and microstructured extended cylindrical surfaces. A technique for extending the applicability of the numerical results to cylindrical fin arrays is demonstrated with the aid of experimental data obtained for these surfaces. Surface enhancement resulted in chip planform heat fluxes of 105.4 and 159.3 W/cm2, for saturated and 35°C subcooled FC-72, respectively.

Visualization of Pool Boiling From Plain and Enhanced Structures

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camil-Daniel Ghiu ◽  
Yogendra K. Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Ccd Camera ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Geometric Complexity ◽  
Boiling Process

A visualization study of pool boiling at atmospheric pressure from plain and enhanced structures was conducted with PF 5060 as working fluid. The single layer enhanced structures were fabricated in copper and were 1 mm thick. The parameters investigated in the present study are heat flux, width of microchannels and overall structure width. A monochrome CCD camera with attached magnifying lens served as the main tool for observation of the boiling process from the structures. The nucleate boiling regime for a plain surface is usually divided into two sub-regimes: the isolated bubbles regime and the coalesced bubbles regime. For enhanced structures, the increase in geometric complexity leads to different flow regimes that may establish under different heat fluxes. This study evaluates these regimes using movies and still photographs. A comparison with the plain case is made and the differences highlighted.

Investigation of the Dynamics of Nucleate Boiling in Subcooled Falling Liquid Films

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-155
Author(s):  
Vladimir Serdyukov ◽  
Anton Surtaev ◽  
Oleg Volodin
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
Pool Boiling ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Liquid Films ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Nucleation Frequency ◽  
Water Films ◽  
Falling Liquid Films

This paper deals with the features of nucleation dynamics at boiling in falling water films at different subcooling, Reynolds number and heat fluxes. With the use of high-speed infrared and digital video the local parameters of nucleate boiling in falling liquid films such as: bubbles’ diameter before condensation, frequency of nucleation and temperature of onset of bubble appearance were received. Analysis of the experimental data showed that bubbles’ diameter before condensation has strong dependence on initial temperature and increases with the rise of heat flux. The main influence on nucleation frequency has the variation of heat flux density. At the same time the experimental data on nucleation frequency in falling water films are close to the frequency of nucleation at pool boiling. To identify the main features the comparison of received data on the local characteristics at boiling in subcooled falling liquid film with existing models for pool boiling was made

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