Experimental Study on Fundamental Phenomena of Boiling by Using Heat Transfer Surface With Well-Defined Cavities Created by MEMS: The Effect of Spacing Between Cavities

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takato Sato ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Micro Electro Mechanical System ◽  
Heat Transfer Surface ◽  
Cylindrical Shape ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Mems Technology ◽  
Strong Convection ◽  
Artificial Cavity

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments were performed for water by using the well-controlled and -defined heat transfer surfaces. Artificial cavity(ies) was (were) created on the mirror-finished silicon plate of 0.525 mm thickness by utilizing the Micro-Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) technology. Each cavity had cylindrical shape. The diameter and the depth of the cavity were 10μm and 40μm, respectively. Experiments were performed in a range of a heat flux ∼6.0 × 104 W/m2 for distilled water. When the cavity interval was close, the horizontal and declining coalescence of bubble on the cavities were dominant. This vigorous bubble coalescence created strong convection. The heat carried by this convection took a main part in the heat transfer when cavities were close. As the cavity interval became wide, the horizontal and declining coalescence did not take place anymore. The coalescence was limited only to the vertical lift or no coalescence. In this situation, bubbles grew large on the cavities and absorbed latent heat sufficiently. Bubbles themselves took the main role of carrying heat away from the heat transfer surface when cavities were further apart.

Experimental Study on Nucleation Site Interaction During Pool Nucleate Boiling by Using Three Artificial Cavities

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takato Sato ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Latent Heat ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Nucleation Site ◽  
Heat Transfer Surface ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Mems Technology

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments were performed for water using heat transfer surfaces having unified cavities. Cylindrical holes of 10 μm in diameter and 40 μm in depth were formed on a mirror-finished silicon wafer of 0.2 mm in thickness using Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. This silicon plate was used as the heat transfer surface. The test heat transfer surface was heated by a semiconductor laser beam. Experiments were conducted in the range of up to 1.35 × 105 W/m2. When the cavity spacing was narrow such as S = 1 or 2 mm, the convection created by the departure of coalesced bubbles played a main role in heat transfer when the heat flux was low. As the heat flux was increased, the coalesced bubbles absorbed enough heat to become large while the frequent bubble departure was maintained. As a result of it, the latent heat term in heat transfer became large to approximately 40%. When the cavity spacing was wide such as S = 4 mm, a bubble absorbed heat enough to become large before departure and the coalescence of bubbles were not prominent. Thus, the latent heat term took approximately 50% in heat transfer. With an increase in the heat flux, the vertical coalescence became to happen quite frequently. This coalescence made convection vigorous to increase the heat transfer. As a result of it, the convection term increased to 60% and the latent term decreased to 40%.

Study on Pool-Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics by Using Artificial Cavities

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryo Hateruma ◽  
Takato Sato ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Natural Circulation ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Transfer Surface ◽  
Finished Surface ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Mems Technology ◽  
Artificial Cavity

Pool boiling heat transfer experiments were performed by using the well-controlled/defined heat transfer surface for water. Uni-size and -shape artificial cavities were created on the mirror-finished silicon plate by utilizing the MEMS technology. Experimental results agreed well with what were predicted by the traditional boiling theory. The mirror-finished surface showed only the tendency of natural circulation heat transfer. The artificial-cavity heat transfer surface followed the pool-nucleate boiling trend. The onset of the pool-nucleate boiling was well predicted by the traditional pool-nucleate boiling theory. These results indicated that the artificial cavities behave just like natural cavities. The results indicated the artificial cavities are quite useful and promising to examine the true features of complicated boiling that have been overshadowed by complicatedness. From recorded high speed video pictures, the coalescence of bubbles that were growing on the cavities were classified into four categories; the normal lift (no coalescence), the vertical coalescence, the declining coalescence and the horizontal coalescence. As the cavity interval was increased, the horizontal coalescence decreases to zero, the vertical coalescence also decreases, and on the contrary to these, vertical coalescence and normal lift increase. The cavity interval 3 mm (S/Lc ≈ 1.2) seemed to be the border whether the horizontal coalescence occurs or not.

Pool Boiling Characteristics of Heat Transfer Surface With Micro Structures Created by Using MEMS Technology

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake ◽  
Takato Sato
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Micro Electro Mechanical System ◽  
Heat Transfer Surface ◽  
Wall Superheat ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Mems Technology ◽  
Cylindrical Cavities

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments were performed for water by using well-controlled and -defined heat transfer surfaces. The silicon wafers of 0.200 mm thickness were used as the heat transfer surfaces. Artificial-cylindrical cavities, micro-straight-line grooves or micro-crossing-straight-line grooves (square pillars) were created on the silicon plate by utilizing the Micro-Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) technology. In the case of the straight-line grooves and the crossing-straight-line grooves, the grooves were wetted after the heat transfer surface experienced subcooling. Once the grooves were wetted, only small diameter cavities which were formed during the MEMS processing at the bottom of the grooves functioned at the inception of boiling. Thus, a large overshooting of the wall superheat at the inception of boiling was observed. In this point, the micro grooves and micro pillars are not advantageous to cooling a body that periodically generates heat such as MPUs and electro devices. In the fully developed nucleate boiling region, the general trend was similar to that of the usual heat transfer surface. In the case of the artificial-cylindrical cavities, nuclei were well preserved in cavities even after the heat transfer surface experienced subcooling. Thus, no overshooting of the wall superheat at the inception of boiling was observed. As the number of the artificial-cylindrical cavities was increased, the wall superheat shifted to a low wall superheat side. The boiling heat transfer coefficient of the heat transfer surface that had the artificial-cylindrical cavities of the 1 mm pitch was better than that of a usual copper heat transfer surface. The artificial-cylindrical cavities are advantageous to get reliable and better cooling efficiency.

Experimental Study on Behavior of Bubbles and Temperature Fluctuation of Heat Transfer Surface by Using Heat Transfer Surface With Artificial Cavities Created by MEMS Technology

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takato Sato ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Side Surface ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Transfer Surface ◽  
Back Side ◽  
Mems Technology ◽  
Standard Deviations ◽  
Thermal Influence

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments were performed for water using heat transfer surfaces having a unified cavity. A single cylindrical hole of 10 μm in diameter and 40 μm in depth was formed on a mirror-finished silicon wafer of 0.2 mm in thickness using the Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology. This silicon plate was used as the heat transfer surface. The back side of the heat transfer surface was heated by a semi-conductor laser beam. The back-side surface temperature was measured by a radiation thermograph with a temperature resolution of 0.08 K and a time resolution of 3 ms/line. Experiments were conducted in the range up to 1.35 × 105 W/m2. The standard deviations of the local fluctuating heat transfer surface temperature were calculated. So the cross-correlation coefficients between the cavity center and a certain point were calculated by using the standard deviations and the time-series surface temperature data. Then, the intensity of the thermal influence exerted by the boiling bubbles on the local position was derived. The thermal influence extents determined from the intensity were 2.1 – 3.3 times larger than the mean diameter of all departure bubbles in the present experimental range.

Experimental Study on Fundamental Phenomena of Boiling Using Heat Transfer Surfaces With Well-Defined Cavities Created by MEMS (Effect of Spacing Between Cavities)

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takato Sato ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Hiroyasu Ohtake
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Microelectromechanical Systems ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Radiation Thermometer ◽  
Heat Transfer Surface ◽  
Bubble Coalescence ◽  
Back Side ◽  
Nucleation Sites ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Cylindrical Holes

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments were performed for water using heat transfer surfaces having unified cavities. Cylindrical holes of 10μm in diameter and 40μm in depth were formed on a mirror-finished silicon wafer of 0.525mm in thickness using Microelectromechanical systems technology. The test heat transfer surface was heated by a semiconductor laser beam. Experiments were conducted in the range of up to 4.54×104W∕m2. The temperature of the back side of the heat transfer surface was measured by a radiation thermometer. When the spacing between cavities was S∕Lc<0.8, the horizontal and declining coalescence of bubbles on the neighboring cavities were dominant. Strong thermal and bubble coalescence interactions between nucleation sites were observed in this situation. This vigorous bubble coalescence created strong convection. The heat carried by this convection accounted for a large part of the heat transfer. As the cavity interval became wide, S∕Lc≥1.2, the horizontal and the declining coalescence of the bubbles ceased. The coalescence was limited to the vertical or no coalescence. The thermal and bubble coalescence interactions between the nucleation sites became quite low, to the extent of being negligible. The bubbles themselves were key in carrying heat away from the heat transfer surface.

Study on Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer by Measuring Spatially Instantaneous Local Surface Temperature and Observing Instantaneous Bubble/Liquid Fluid Behavior

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Kenta Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Critical Heat Flux ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Transfer Surface ◽  
Bubble Generation ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments were performed for water at 0.101 MPa to examine the elementary process of the nucleate boiling. Heat transfer surface was made from a copper printed circuit board. Direct current was supplied to heat it up. The Bakelite plate of the backside of a copper layer was taken off at the center portion of the heat transfer surface. The instantaneous variation of the backside temperature of the heat transfer surface was measured with an infrared radiation camera. Bubble behavior was recorded with a high speed video camera. In the isolated bubble region, surface temperature was uniform during waiting time. When boiling bubble generation started, a large dip in the surface temperature was formed under the bubble. After the bubble left from the heat transfer surface, the surface temperature returned to former uniform temperature distribution. Surface temperature was not affected by the bubble generation beyond 1.6 mm from the center of the bubble. In the isolated bubble region, a convection term was approximately 80 % in total heat transfer rate. The importance of the three-phase interface line in the heat transfer should be checked carefully. In the intermediate and high heat flux region, the variation of surface temperature and heat flux were small. Rather those were close to their average values even at critical heat flux condition. It seemed that the large part of the heat transfer surface was covered with water even at the critical heat flux condition. The heat flux at the area that appeared to be the three-phase contact line was not so high and close to the average heat flux.

Pool Nucleate Boiling on Heat Transfer Surface With Deposited Sea Salts

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinichiro Uesawa ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi ◽  
Mitsuhiko Shibata ◽  
Hiroyuki Yoshida
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Nucleate Boiling ◽  
Heat Transfer Surface ◽  
Artificial Seawater ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Nacl Solution ◽  
Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer

Pool nucleate boiling heat transfer experiments of the 3.5 - 10wt% NaCl solution, the real seawater and the 3.5 - 10wt% artificial seawater solution as well as distilled water for the basis of comparison were performed to examine the effect of salts on boiling heat transfer. Seawater was injected into the reactor cores in the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company. This study intended to provide base data to consider reactor core cooling by seawater. Boiling curves of the 3.5 - 10wt% NaCl solution, the real seawater and the 3.5 - 10wt% artificial seawater solutions as well as distilled water were well predicted with the Rohsenow pool nucleate boiling heat transfer correlation although the curves were a little shifted to the higher wall superheat region. The formation of secondary coalescent large bubble was suppressed in the experiments of the NaCl solutions, real seawater and the artificial seawater solutions, and small primary bubbles detached directly from the heat transfer surface. Sea salt deposition was observed only in the experiments of the 7.0wt% and 10wt% artificial seawater solutions. The deposited salt was calcium sulfate. Slow heat transfer surface temperature excursion occurred in the experiments of the 7.0wt% and 10wt% artificial seawater solutions after the heat flux was raised to 600 kW/m2 and 120 kW/m2, respectively. The critical heat flux of the 7.0wt% and 10wt% artificial seawater solutions were 600 kW/m2 and 120 kW/m2, respectively if the occurrence of the slow heat transfer surface temperature excursion was defined as the critical heat flux condition. The heat transfer surface temperature excursion might be caused by the growth of the deposited salt layer.

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