Experimental Investigation of Evaporation Heat Transfer Inside Horizontal Micro-Fin Tubes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Chen ◽  
Pengfei Mi ◽  
Peter R. N. Childs ◽  
Ekaterina Sokolova ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Geometric Parameters ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Vapor Quality ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Evaporation Heat ◽  
Evaporation Heat Transfer ◽  
Fin Tubes

Tubes with their features optimized to enhance heat transfer are routinely used in industry. A series of experimental investigations of evaporation heat transfer of widely used refrigerants inside a horizontal micro-fin cooper tube have been conducted and are reported here. The micro-fin tubes have different geometric parameters with inner diameter ranging from 4.98mm to 7.14mm. The helix angle of the tested tubes ranges from 18.858° to 35°. The apex angle of the tested tubes ranges from 11° to 40°. In addition, other geometric parameters of the tubes vary, such as the fin height, fin pitch and starts. Evaporation heat transfer experiments were conducted with the tubes and the working fluids include R22, R32 and R410A. The evaporation experiments were taken at a constant temperature of 6 °C for R22 and R410A, but 10 °C for R32. Moreover, the working conditions of the experiments varied with the mass flux ranging from 100 kg/(m2.s) to 400 kg/(m2.s). For the evaporation experiments, the inlet vapor quality is set as 0.1, while the outlet vapor quality is set as 0.9. The experimental data reveals that tubes with different geometric parameters have different heat transfer performance. The heat transfer coefficients, the reduced pressure and the changing trend of the heat transfer coefficients vary among these tubes. The experimental data has been compared with available models in the literature and an analysis of the effect of geometric parameters on the performance of the tubes undertaken. The influence of each geometric parameter on the heat transfer performance of the micro-fin tube has been analyzed and is reported.

Evaporation Heat Transfer Characteristics on the Outside of Horizontal Smooth, Herringbone and Enhanced Surface 1EHT Tubes

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-jun Sun ◽  
Jing-xiang Chen ◽  
David J. Kukulka ◽  
Kan Zhou ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Smooth Tube ◽  
External Diameter ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Mass Fluxes ◽  
Evaporation Heat ◽  
Evaporation Heat Transfer ◽  
Enhanced Surface

An experiment investigation was performed using R410A in order to determine the single-phase and evaporation heat transfer coefficients on the outside of (i) a smooth tube; (ii) herringbone tube; and (iii) the newly developed Vipertex enhanced surface 1EHT tube; all with the same external diameter (12.7 mm). The nominal evaporation temperature is 279 K, with inlet and outlet qualities of 0.1 and 0.8. Mass fluxes ranged from 10 to 40 kg m−2s−1. Results suggest that the 1EHT tube has excellent heat transfer performance but a higher pressure drop when compared to a smooth tube. Evaporation heat transfer coefficient for the 1EHT is lower than the herringbone tube and the pressure drop is almost the same.

Experimental Study of Evaporation Heat Transfer Characteristics and Pressure Drops of R410A and R134a in a Multiport Mini-Channel

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jatuporn Kaew-On ◽  
Somchai Wongwises
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Evaporation Heat ◽  
Evaporation Heat Transfer ◽  
R 134A

The evaporation heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops of R-410A and R-134a flowing through a horizontal-aluminium rectangular multiport mini-channel having a hydraulic diameter of 3.48 mm are experimentally investigated. The test runs are done at refrigerant mass fluxes ranging between 200 and 400 kg/m2s. The heat fluxes are between 5 and 14.25 kW/m2, and refrigerant saturation temperatures are between 10 and 30 °C. The effects of the refrigerant vapour quality, mass flux, saturation temperature and imposed heat flux on the measured heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop are investigated. The experimental data show that in the same conditions, the heat transfer coefficients of R-410A are about 20–50% higher than those of R-134a, whereas the pressure drops of R-410A are around 50–100% lower than those of R-134a. The new correlations for the evaporation heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop of R-410A and R-134a in a multiport mini-channel are proposed for practical applications.

scholarly journals Experimental Study on the Evaporation and Condensation Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Vapor Chamber

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Yanfei Liu ◽  
Xiaotian Han ◽  
Chaoqun Shen ◽  
Feng Yao ◽  
Mengchen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Condensation Heat Transfer ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Vapor Chamber ◽  
Filling Rate ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Evaporation And Condensation

A vapor chamber can meet the cooling requirements of high heat flux electronic equipment. In this paper, based on a proposed vapor chamber with a side window, a vapor chamber experimental system was designed to visually study its evaporation and condensation heat transfer performance. Using infrared thermal imaging technology, the temperature distribution and the vapor–liquid two-phase interface evolution inside the cavity were experimentally observed. Furthermore, the evaporation and condensation heat transfer coefficients were obtained according to the measured temperature of the liquid near the evaporator surface and the vapor near the condenser surface. The effects of heat load and filling rate on the thermal resistance and the evaporation and condensation heat transfer coefficients are analyzed and discussed. The results indicate that the liquid filling rate that maximized the evaporation heat transfer coefficient was different from the liquid filling rate that maximized the condensation heat transfer coefficient. The vapor chamber showed good heat transfer performance with a liquid filling rate of 33%. According to the infrared thermal images, it was observed that the evaporation/boiling heat transfer could be strengthened by the interference of easily broken bubbles and boiling liquid. When the heat input increased, the uniformity of temperature distribution was improved due to the intensified heat transfer on the evaporator surface.

Heat Transfer Performance of Micro-Porous Copper Foams with Homogeneous and Hybrid Structures Manufactured by Lost Carbonate Sintering

2015 ◽  
Vol 1779 ◽  
pp. 39-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Mary Baloyo ◽  
Yuyuan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Hybrid Structures ◽  
High Porosity ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Porous Copper

ABSTRACTThe heat transfer coefficients of homogeneous and hybrid micro-porous copper foams, produced by the Lost Carbonate Sintering (LCS) process, were measured under one-dimensional forced convection conditions using water coolant. In general, increasing the water flow rate led to an increase in the heat transfer coefficients. For homogeneous samples, the optimum heat transfer performance was observed for samples with 60% porosity. Different trends in the heat transfer coefficients were found in samples with hybrid structures. Firstly, for horizontal bilayer structures, placing the high porosity layer by the heater gave a higher heat transfer coefficient than the other way round. Secondly, for integrated vertical bilayer structures, having the high porosity layer by the water inlet gave a better heat transfer performance. Lastly, for segmented vertical bilayer samples, having the low porosity layer by the water inlet offered the greatest heat transfer coefficient overall, which is five times higher than its homogeneous counterpart.

Heat Transfer Performance During Condensation Inside Spiralled Micro-Fin Tubes

2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre M. Bukasa ◽  
Leon Liebenberg ◽  
Josua P. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Geometric Parameters ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Outer Diameter ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Fin Tube ◽  
R 134A ◽  
Fin Tubes ◽  
Spiral Angle

The effect of the spiral angle on the heat transfer performance in micro-fin tube condensers has not yet been clearly established because other geometric parameters affecting the heat transfer performance were simultaneously varied in previous studies. This paper reports on the influence of the spiral angle on the heat transfer during condensation inside spiralled micro-fin tubes having all other geometric parameters constant. Tests were conducted for condensation of R-22, R-134a, and R-407C inside a smooth (9.52 mm outer diameter) and three micro-fin tubes with approximately the same diameter, having spiral angles of 10 deg, 18 deg, and 37 deg, respectively. Experimental results indicated a heat transfer augmentation with spiral angle increase. A new semi-empirical predictive correlation was developed for practical design of spiralled micro-fin tubes. The proposed new correlation predicted the majority of experimental results of the present study within a deviation zone of ±20%.

The Effects of Wettability and Surface Morphology on Heat Transfer for Zinc Oxide Nanostructured Aluminum Surfaces

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire M. Kunkle ◽  
Jordan P. Mizerak ◽  
Van P. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Film Thickness ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Contact Angles ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Wetted Area ◽  
Aluminum Surfaces

The development of hydrophilic surface coatings for enhanced wetting characteristics has led to improvement in heat transfer metrics like impinging droplet vaporization time and the heat transfer coefficient. Hydrothermal synthesis, a method of developing hydrophilic surfaces, has been previously shown to produce high performing heat transfer surfaces on copper substrates [1]. Our study applied this production method to aluminum substrates, which have the advantage of being cheaper, lighter, and a more widely used for heat sinks than copper. Previous experiments have shown that water droplets on ZnO nanostructure coated surfaces, at low superheats, evaporate via thin film evaporation rather than nucleate boiling. This leads to heat transfer coefficients as much as three times higher than nucleate boiling models for the same superheat. Our nanocoated aluminum surfaces exhibit superhydrophilicity with an average droplet liquid film thickness of 20–30 microns, which can produce heat transfer coefficients of over 25 kW/m2K. This study discusses characterization of ZnO nanostructured aluminum surfaces to better understand the related mechanisms which lead to such high heat transfer performance. All ZnO nanostructured aluminum surfaces produced for this study exhibited superhydrophilicity, with sessile droplet contact angles of less than 5 degrees. The challenge of achieving accuracy for such low contact angles led to the development of a new wetting metric related to the droplet’s wetted area on a surface rather than the contact angle. This new metric is predicated on the the fact that heat transfer performance is directly related to this wetted area, thickens, and shape of the expanding droplet footprint. Shape irregularity of droplets on these superhydrophilic surfaces is discussed in this study, where there appears to be advantages to irregular spreading compared with surfaces that produce symmetric radial spreading. One form of irregular spreading consists of liquid droplets spreading out both on top of the surface and within the microstructure of the surface coating. The liquid within the microstructure forms films less than 5 microns thick, making local heat transfer coefficients of greater than 100 kW/m2K possible. SEM microscope imaging provided additional insight to the underlying mechanisms which cause these surfaces to produce such exceptional spreading as well as irregular spreading, resulting in very good heat transfer performance. Experimental work was coupled with computational analysis to model the contact line of the droplet footprint. Image processing of experimental photos helps to analyze spreading characteristics, which can be directly related to heat transfer due to film thickness at various points during spreading. Approaches used to characterize these superhydrophilic surfaces advance understanding of the connections between nanoscale structural elements and macroscale performance characteristics in heat transfer. This understanding can reveal key insights for developing even better high performance surfaces for a broad range of applications.

Tuning Superhydrophilic Nanostructured Surfaces to Maximize Water Droplet Evaporation Heat Transfer Performance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire K. Wemp ◽  
Van P. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Droplet Evaporation ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Water Droplets ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Droplet Spreading ◽  
Evaporation Heat ◽  
Evaporation Heat Transfer

Spraying water droplets on air fin surfaces is often used to augment performance of air-cooled Rankine power plant condensers and wet cooling tower heat exchangers for building air-conditioning systems. To get the best performance in such processes, the water droplets delivered to the surface should spread rapidly into an extensive, thin film and evaporate with no liquid leaving the surface due to recoil or splashing. This paper presents predictions of theoretical/computational modeling and results of experimental studies of droplet spreading on thin-layer, nanostructured, superhydrophilic surfaces that exhibit very high wicking rates (wickability) in the porous layer. Analysis of the experimental data in the model framework illuminates the key aspects of the physics of the droplet spreading process and evaporation heat transfer. This analysis also predicts the dependence of droplet spreading characteristics on the nanoporous surface morphology and other system parameters. The combined results of this investigation indicate specific key strategies for design and fabrication of surface coatings that will maximize the heat transfer performance for droplet evaporation on heat exchanger surfaces. The implications regarding wickability effects on pool boiling processes are also discussed.

Experimental Investigation of Single-Phase Microjet Array Impingement Cooling

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Browne ◽  
Gregory J. Michna ◽  
Michael K. Jensen ◽  
Yoav Peles
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Single Phase ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Deionized Water ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Impingement Cooling ◽  
Average Heat ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficients

The heat transfer performance of two microjet arrays using degassed deionized water was investigated. The in-line jet arrays had a spacing of 250 μm, a standoff of 200 μm, and diameters of 54 and 112 μm. Average heat transfer coefficients were obtained for 150 < Red < 3300 and ranged from 80,000 to 414,000 W/m2-K. A heat flux of 1,110 W/cm2 was attained with 23 °C water and a surface temperature of 50 °C.

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