A Study on Gas–Liquid Film Thicknesses and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Vapor–Gas Condensation Outside a Horizontal Tube

2013 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huijun Li ◽  
Wenping Peng
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Liquid Film ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Local Heat Transfer ◽  
Horizontal Tube ◽  
Local Heat ◽  
Condensation Heat Transfer ◽  
Gas Condensation ◽  
Noncondensable Gas

Noncondensable gases deteriorate heat transfer in the condensation process. It is therefore necessary to study vapor–gas condensation heat transfer process and analyze main factors influencing the process. Based on the double-film theory and the Prandtl boundary layer theory, this investigation developed a mathematical model of gas–liquid film thicknesses and local heat transfer coefficient for studying laminar film condensation in the presence of noncondensable gas over a horizontal tube. Induced velocity in the gas film, gas–liquid interfacial shear stress, and pressure gradient were considered in the study. Importantly, gas–liquid film separations were analyzed in depth in this paper. It obtained the distributions of gas–liquid film thicknesses, local heat transfer coefficient, condensate mass flux, and gas–liquid interfacial temperature along the tube surface, and analyzed the influences of bulk velocity, total pressure, bulk mass concentration of noncondensable gas and wall temperature on them, providing a theoretical guidance for understanding and enhancing vapor–gas condensation heat transfer. Gas film thickness and gas–liquid film separations have certain effects on vapor–gas condensation heat transfer. The average dimensionless heat transfer coefficients are in agreement with the data from related literatures.

Influence of Wall Sub-Cooling on Local Heat Transfer for Forced Convection Condensation of Steam/Air in a Horizontal Tube

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiqiang Xu ◽  
Qiunan Sun ◽  
Haifeng Gu ◽  
Xiaofan Hou ◽  
Zhongning Sun
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Mass Fraction ◽  
Local Heat Transfer ◽  
Horizontal Tube ◽  
Local Heat ◽  
Condensation Heat Transfer ◽  
Fraction Mixture ◽  
Condensation Heat Transfer Coefficient

For the purpose of analyzing the influence of wall sub-cooling on condensation heat transfer characteristic in the presence of noncondensable gases inside a horizontal tube, experiments for air-cooling and water-cooling at the secondary side outside the condenser tube have been conducted. By comparing the experimental data of different inlet air mass fraction, mixture gases velocity and coolant volume flow rate, the variation of local heat transfer coefficient with wall sub-cooling was obtained. The results show that for annular and wavy flow, the condensation heat transfer coefficient increases with increasing wall sub-cooling but decreases for stratified flow. For annular and wavy flow, the positive influence of wall sub-cooling on condensation heat transfer coefficient is enhanced by the rise of inlet noncondensable gas mass fraction, mixture gases velocity and pressure.

scholarly journals Experimental analysis of the evaporation of a thin liquid film deposited on a capillary heated tube: estimation of the local heat transfer coefficient

2021 ◽  
Vol 2116 (1) ◽  
pp. 012110
Author(s):  
L Cattani ◽  
F Bozzoli ◽  
V Ayel ◽  
C Romestant ◽  
Y Bertin
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Liquid Film ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat Conduction Problem ◽  
Thin Liquid Film ◽  
Local Heat Transfer ◽  
Local Heat ◽  
Inverse Heat Conduction Problem ◽  
Two Phase

Abstract The aim of this work is to estimate the local heat flux and heat transfer coefficient for the case of evaporation of thin liquid film deposited on capillary heated channel: it plays a fundamental role in the two-phase heat transfer processes inside mini-channels. In the present analysis it is investigated a semi-infinite slug flow (one liquid slug followed by one single vapour bubble) in a heated capillary copper tube. The estimation procedure here adopted is based on the solution of the inverse heat conduction problem within the wall domain adopting, as input data, the temperature field on the external tube wall acquired by means of infrared thermography.

Experiments on Heat Transfer in a Thin Liquid Film Flowing Over a Rotating Disk

2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Ozar ◽  
B. M. Cetegen ◽  
A. Faghri
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Liquid Film ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Liquid Flow ◽  
Thin Liquid Film ◽  
Local Heat Transfer ◽  
Disk Surface ◽  
Local Heat ◽  
Flow Rates

An experimental study of heat transfer into a thin liquid film on a rotating heated disk is described. Deionized water was introduced at the center of a heated, horizontal disk with a constant film thickness and uniform radial velocity. Radial distribution of the disk surface temperatures was measured using a thermocouple/slip ring arrangement. Experiments were performed for a range of liquid flow rates between 3.0 lpm and 15.0 lpm. The angular speed of the disk was varied from 0 rpm to 500 rpm. The local heat transfer coefficient was determined based on the heat flux supplied to the disk and the temperature difference between the measured disk surface temperature and the liquid entrance temperature onto the disk. The local heat transfer coefficient was seen to increase with increasing flow rate as well as increasing angular velocity of the disk. Effect of rotation on heat transfer was largest for the lower liquid flow rates with the effect gradually decreasing with increasing liquid flow rates. Semi-empirical correlations are presented in this study for the local and average Nusselt numbers.

Local Heat Transfer Measurements in Turbulent Flow Around a 180-deg Pipe Bend

1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Baughn ◽  
H. Iacovides ◽  
D. C. Jackson ◽  
B. E. Launder
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Turbulent Flow ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Secondary Flow ◽  
Local Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Local Heat ◽  
Pipe Bend ◽  
Streamline Curvature

The paper reports extensive connective heat transfer data for turbulent flow of air around a U-bend with a ratio of bend radius:pipe diameter of 3.375:1. Experiments cover Reynolds numbers from 2 × 104 to 1.1 × 105. Measurements of local heat transfer coefficient are made at six stations and at five circumferential positions at each station. At Re = 6 × 104 a detailed mapping of the temperature field within the air is made at the same stations. The experiment duplicates the flow configuration for which Azzola and Humphrey [3] have recently reported laser-Doppler measurements of the mean and turbulent velocity field. The measurements show a strong augmentation of heat transfer coefficient on the outside of the bend and relatively low levels on the inside associated with the combined effects of secondary flow and the amplification/suppression of turbulent mixing by streamline curvature. The peak level of Nu occurs halfway around the bend at which position the heat transfer coefficient on the outside is about three times that on the inside. Another feature of interest is that a strongly nonuniform Nu persists six diameters downstream of the bend even though secondary flow and streamline curvature are negligible there. At the entry to the bend there are signs of partial laminarization on the inside of the bend, an effect that is more pronounced at lower Reynolds numbers.

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