Mist/Steam Cooling by a Row of Impinging Jets

Author(s):  
X. Li ◽  
J. L. Gaddis ◽  
T. Wang

Closed loop steam has been chosen for cooling airfoils in heavy frame Advanced Turbine Systems (ATS) to improve efficiency. Enhanced cooling by the use of mist is considered to have potential to augment cooling by internal steam alone. Water droplets generally less than 10μm are added to 1.3 bar steam and injected through a row of four discrete round jets onto a heated surface. The Reynolds number is varied from 7500 to 22500 and the heat flux varied from 3.3 to 13.4 kW/m2. The mist increases the heat transfer coefficient along the stagnation line and downstream wanes in about 5 jet diameters. The heat transfer coefficient improves by 50 to 700 percent at the stagnation line for mist concentrations 0.75 to 3.5 percent by weight, depending on conditions. Off-axis maximum cooling occurs in most of the mist/steam flow but not in the steam-only flow. CFD simulation indicates that this off-axis cooling peak is caused by droplets’ interaction with the target walls.

Author(s):  
Emily J. Boyd ◽  
John W. McClintic ◽  
Kyle F. Chavez ◽  
David G. Bogard

Knowing the heat transfer coefficient augmentation is imperative to predicting film cooling performance on turbine components. In the past, heat transfer coefficient augmentation was generally measured at unit density ratio to keep measurements simple and uncertainty low. Some researchers have measured heat transfer coefficient augmentation while taking density ratio effects into account, but none have made direct temperature measurements of the wall and adiabatic wall to calculate hf/h0 at higher density ratios. This work presents results from measuring the heat transfer coefficient augmentation downstream of shaped holes with a 7° forward and lateral expansion at DR = 1.0, 1.2, and 1.5 on a flat plate using a constant heat flux surface. The results showed that the heat transfer coefficient augmentation was low while the jets were attached to the surface and increased when the jets started to separate. At DR = 1.0, hf/h0 was higher for a given blowing ratio than at DR = 1.2 and DR = 1.5. However, when velocity ratios are matched, better correspondence was found at the different density ratios. Surface contours of hf/h0 showed that the heat transfer was initially increased along the centerline of the jet, but was reduced along the centerline at distances farther downstream. The decrease along the centerline may be due to counter-rotating vortices sweeping warm air next to the heat flux plate toward the center of the jet, where they sweep upward and thicken the thermal boundary layer. This warming of the core of the coolant jet over the heated surface was confirmed with thermal field measurements.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 705
Author(s):  
Sylwia Hożejowska ◽  
Magdalena Piasecka

In this paper, the issue of flow boiling heat transfer in an annular minigap was discussed. The main aim of the paper was determining the boiling heat transfer coefficient at the HFE-649 fluid–heater contact during flow along an annular minigap. The essential element of the experimental stand was a test section vertically oriented with the minigap 2 mm wide. Thermocouples were used to measure the temperature of the heater and fluid at the inlet and the outlet to the minigap. The mathematical model assumed that the fluid flow was laminar and the steady–state heat transfer process was axisymmetric. The temperatures of the heated surface and of the flowing fluid were assumed to fulfill energy equations with adequate boundary conditions. The problem was solved by the Trefftz method. The local heat transfer coefficients at the fluid–test surface interface were calculated due to the third kind boundary condition at the saturated boiling. Graphs were used to illustrate: the measurement of the heater surface temperature, 2D temperature distributions in the pipe and fluid, and the heat transfer coefficient as a function of the distance from the minigap inlet. The measurement uncertainties and accuracy of the heat transfer coefficient determination were estimated.


Author(s):  
F. Ben Ahmed ◽  
B. Weigand ◽  
K. Meier

Flow mechanisms, heat transfer and discharge coefficient characteristics for a representative part of a turbine casing cooling system, consisting of an array of 20 impinging jets, were numerically investigated. The study focused on the influence of the jet Mach number while maintaining the Reynolds number constant at Re = 7,500. Therefore, the orifice bore diameter or the fluid density had to be varied. The objectives of the current CFD simulations have not been adressed before in literature, not only because heat transfer characteristics and pressure drop are given for impingement jet Mach numbers up to 0.72 at a constant relatively low Reynolds number, but also because fundamental understanding of physical phenomena of the flow in the cylindrical plenum and in the small sharp-edged orifices at the bottom side of the tube is provided. Increasing the Mach number by simultaneously reducing the orifice diameters led to slightly decreasing Nusselt numbers, with average deviations of the order of 14%. However, the heat transfer coefficient increased considerably with increasing Mach number. On the contrary, the variation of the Mach number by varying the density showed only a slight influence on the heat transfer coefficient. The predicted discharge coefficients increased significantly by augmenting the Mach number.


2016 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily J. Boyd ◽  
John W. McClintic ◽  
Kyle F. Chavez ◽  
David G. Bogard

Knowing the heat transfer coefficient augmentation is imperative to predicting film cooling performance on turbine components. In the past, heat transfer coefficient augmentation was generally measured at unit density ratio to keep measurements simple and uncertainty low. Some researchers have measured heat transfer coefficient augmentation while taking density ratio effects into account, but none have made direct temperature measurements of the wall and adiabatic wall to calculate hf/h0 at higher density ratios. This work presents results from measuring the heat transfer coefficient augmentation downstream of shaped holes with a 7 deg forward and lateral expansion at DR = 1.0, 1.2, and 1.5 on a flat plate using a constant heat flux surface. The results showed that the heat transfer coefficient augmentation was low while the jets were attached to the surface and increased when the jets started to separate. At DR = 1.0, hf/h0 was higher for a given blowing ratio than at DR = 1.2 and DR = 1.5. However, when velocity ratios are matched, better correspondence was found at the different density ratios. Surface contours of hf/h0 showed that the heat transfer was initially increased along the centerline of the jet, but was reduced along the centerline at distances farther downstream. The decrease along the centerline may be due to counter-rotating vortices sweeping warm air next to the heat flux plate toward the center of the jet, where they sweep upward and thicken the thermal boundary layer. This warming of the core of the coolant jet over the heated surface was confirmed with thermal field measurements.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Yoga Arob Wicaksono ◽  
Sudarno . ◽  
Nanang Suffiadi Akhmad

The performance of heat transfer on a car radiator can be improved by using nanofluids as working fluids. In this study analyzes the of heat transfer performance of Al2O3/water nanofluids that pass through cylindrical pipes in 3D using the CFD simulation method for single phase approach. This research studied the effect of nanofluid concentration  0.1, 0.5, 1 and 1.5% on the heat transfer coefficient. The Reynolds number is varied between 9000 to 23000 and the ambient temperature is constant. The results showed that 1.5% Al2O3/water nanofluid increasing heat transfer coefficient up to 5.7% compared to base fluid.


Author(s):  
Tong-Bou Chang ◽  
Tsung-Han Lin ◽  
Jhong-Wei Huang

This study investigated the spray cooling heat transfer performance of Al2O3-water nanofluid given four different subcooling degrees (0 °C, 10 °C, 20 °C, and 30 °C). The results showed that the subcooled nanofluids were ranked in order of a reducing spray cooling heat transfer performance as follows: 20 °C, 10 °C, 0 °C, and 30 °C. On average, the heat transfer coefficient obtained using the nanofluid with 20 °C subcooling was around 8.3%, 8.6%, and 15.6% higher than that obtained with 10 °C, 0 °C, and 30 °C subcooling, respectively. However, the heat transfer performance decreased with an increasing spray operating time. The scanning electron microscopy observations showed that the reduction in the heat transfer coefficient was the result of a gradual increase in the thickness of the nano-adsorption layer on the heated surface as the spray operating time increased.


Author(s):  
S. Ou ◽  
J. C. Han

The effect of film slot injection on leading edge heat transfer coefficient and film cooling effectiveness under high mainstream turbulence conditions was experimentally studied for flow across a blunt body with a semi-cylinder leading edge and a flat afterbody. High mainstream turbulence levels were generated by a bar grid (Tu = 5.07%) and a passive grid (Tu = 9.67%). The incident mainstream Reynolds number based on the cylinder diameter was about 100,000. The spanwise and streamwise distributions of the heat transfer coefficient and film effectiveness in the leading edge and on the flat sidewall were obtained for three blowing ratios (B = 0.4, 0.8 and 1.2) with two rows of film slots located at ±15° and ±40° from stagnation line. The cross-sectional slot length-to-width ratio was two. The slots in each row were spaced three cross-sectional slot lengths apart and were angled 30° and 90° to the surface in the spanwise and streamwise direction, respectively. The results show that the heat transfer coefficient increases with increasing blowing ratio, but the film effectiveness reaches the maximum at an intermediate blowing ratio of B = 0.8 for both low (Tu = 0.75%) and high (Tu = 9.67%) mainstream turbulence conditions. The leading edge heat transfer coefficient increases and the film effectiveness decreases with mainstream turbulence level for the low blowing ratio; however, the mainstream turbulence effect reduces for the high blowing ratio. The leading edge heat load is significantly reduced with two rows of film slot injection. The blowing ratio of B = 0.4 provides the lowest heat load in the leading edge region for the low mainstream turbulence but B = 0.8 gives the lowest heat load for the high mainstream turbulence conditions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 02066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Piasecka ◽  
Tomasz Musiał ◽  
Artur Piasecki

The paper focused on flow boiling heat transfer in an annular minigap. This gap of 1 mm width was created between the metal pipe with an enhanced surface contacting fluid and the external glass pipe positioned along the same axis. The heated element for the HFE-649 flowing in the minigap was a cartridge heater. Thermocouples were used to measure the temperature of the metal pipe in the contact surface with a fluid. The local values of the heat transfer coefficient for stationary state conditions were calculated using an one-dimensional method in which the multilayer cylindrical wall was assumed to be planar. The results were presented as a function of the heat transfer coefficient along the minigap length and as boiling curves, prepared for selected values of mass flow rate and five types of the enhanced heated surface and a smooth one. Observations indicated that the highest local values of heat transfer coefficient were obtained with using the enhanced surface produced by electromachining process (spark erosion) at the saturated boiling region. The boiling curves generated for two distances from the minigap inlet have similar plots without a drop in the temperature of the heated surface characteristic for nucleation hysteresis.


1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Arjocu ◽  
J. A. Liburdy

The characteristics of the impinging heat transfer of a three-by-three square array of submerged, elliptic impinging jets was studied. Low Reynolds number conditions, 300 to 1500, are considered for two different elliptic jet aspect ratios, with the impingement distance ranging from 1 to 6 jet hydraulic diameters. A transient thermochromic liquid crystal method was used to map the local heat transfer coefficient distribution. The results are reported for the unit cell under the center jet and detail the mean heat transfer as well as the characteristics of the spatial variation of the heat transfer coefficient. The average heat transfer is found to depend inversely on the elliptic jet aspect ratio at these low Reynolds numbers. Distributions of the heat transfer coefficient, h, are also used to obtain proper orthogonal decompositions of h which are used to identify major spatially distributed features. [S0022-1481(00)02102-2]


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