An Experimental Study of Surface Tension-Dependent Pool Boiling Characteristics of Carbon Nanotubes-Nanofluids

Author(s):  
S. M. Sohel Murshed ◽  
Denitsa Milanova ◽  
Ranganathan Kumar

This paper reports an experimental investigation of the pool boiling heat transfer characteristics of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)-nanofluids. Two main characteristics were studied to identify their influence on boiling heat transfer: one is the surface tension through the addition of surfactant and the other is the chemical treatment of nanotubes sidewalls (i.e. oxidized and untreated sidewalls). A Transmission Electron Microscope was used to study the morphology of the functionalized nanotubes and their deposition on heater wire. The maximum enhancement of both the critical and burnout heat fluxes of this nanofluid over those of the pure deionized water are found to be 492% and 265%, respectively at a surfactant to carbon nanotubes concentration ratio of 1:5. This indicates that high enhancement of heat flux is possible and would depend on the concentration of the surfactants. Present results also demonstrate that CNT-nanofluids in a pool boiling environment can extend the saturated boiling regime and the burnout of the heated surface. The burnout heat flux is found to be a strong function of the relaxation of nanofluid surface tension with the base fluid. Based on the best fit of experimental data, an empirical correlation between the burnout heat flux of nanofluid and its relaxation of surface tension is introduced.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prashant Pawar ◽  
Abdul Najim ◽  
Anil Acharya ◽  
Ashok Pise

Abstract This paper investigates the augmentation of heat transfer during pool boiling in a novel aqueous binary mixture of surfactants. The surfactants used were Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate (anionic), Centrimonium Bromide (cationic), and Nicotine (non-ionic). The aqueous binary mixtures SDS-CTAB, CTAB- Nicotine, and SDS-Nicotine were prepared on the volume percentage basis. The augmentation was investigated by studying a single bubble growth in an aqueous binary mixture of surfactants. The investigation was conducted at two values of heat fluxes to probe the effect of heat flux on bubble growth. A reduction in surface tension was attained by SDS-CTAB, CTAB-Nicotine, and SDS-Nicotine aqueous binary systems compared to its individual aqueous surfactant solutions at their optimum concentrations. The most significant surface tension result was obtained by the novel SDS-Nicotine aqueous binary system at 25:75 volume percentages. A decrement in the bubble departure diameter and an increment in the release frequency were observed for SDS-Nicotine aqueous binary system both heat fluxes. The boiling heat transfer coefficient of SDS-Nicotine aqueous binary system was found to be increased by 36.32% and 58.67% compared to saturated water at low and high heat flux, respectively.


Author(s):  
Parimesh Joshi ◽  
Anil Kumar Patil ◽  
Manoj Kumar

Abstract The application of twisted tape fins showed a considerable enhancement in pool boiling heat flux. The present study experimentally investigates the effect of solid and perforated twisted tape fins on pool boiling of water by varying the twist ratio (y) and perforation index (PI) from 3 - 4.3 and 5 - 10, respectively. An arrangement of five twisted tape fins with twist ratio of 3 showed 18.6% enhancement as compared to the plain surface whereas an arrangement of five perforated twisted tape fins having perforation index (PI) of 7 and twist ratio of 3 showed a maximum enhancement of 28.7%.


2014 ◽  
Vol 592-594 ◽  
pp. 1601-1606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameer Sheshrao Gajghate ◽  
Anil R. Aacharya ◽  
Anil T. Pise ◽  
Ganesh S. Jadhav

The addition of additives to the water is known to enhance boiling heat transfer. In the present investigation, boiling heat transfer coefficients are measured for Nichrome wire, immersed in saturated water with & without additive. An additive used is 2-Ethyl 1-Hexanol with varying concentrations in the range of 10-10000 ppm. Extensive experimentation of pool boiling is carried out above the critical heat flux. Boiling behavior i.e. bubble dynamics are observed at higher heat flux for nucleate boiling of water over wide ranges of concentration of additive in water. Results are encouraging and show that a small amount of surface active additive makes the nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient considerably higher, and that there is an optimum additive (500-1000ppm) concentration for higher heat fluxes. An optimum level of enhancement is observed up to a certain amount of additive 500-1000ppm in the tested range. Thereafter significant enhancement is not observed. This enhancement may be due to change in thermo-physical properties i.e. mainly due to a reduction in surface tension of water in the presence of additive.


2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-292
Author(s):  
Adel A. Fahmy ◽  
Ali A. Abdel Aziz

The present work aims to study the effect of nano-particles volume fraction of nano-fluid on the heat transfer during pool boiling with different values of heat flux. The concentration ratios by volume in demineralized water are taken as 0.02 %, 0.20 %, 0.40 %, 0.60, and 0.80 % for Al2O3 nano-particles and 0.02 %, 0.06 %, and 0.20 % for CuO nano-particles. Heat transfer coefficients for pool boiling were established experimentally for different values of volume fraction and heat flux. The heating element is made from an aluminum alloy (AL 6061) with a circular smooth surface of 100 mm diameter and 10 mm thickness. The nano-particles porous layer that builds up during boiling is observed by a scanning electron microscope of the heated surface before and after the boiling. The results demonstrate that the heat transfer rate depends on the concentration ratios and heat flux. Using nano-particles decreases the pool boiling heat transfer in comparison with demineralized water. Due to the deposition of nano-particles on the heated surface, lower heat transfer is obtained for a lower bubble departure compared with demineralized water for the small wall superheat.


Author(s):  
K-J Park ◽  
D Jung ◽  
S E Shim

In this work, nucleate pool boiling heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) of five refrigerants of differing vapour pressures are measured on a horizontal, smooth copper surface of 9.53×9.53 mm. The tested refrigerants are R123, R152a, R134a, R22, and R32 and HTCs are taken from 10 kW/m2 to the critical heat flux (CHF) of each refrigerant. Wall and fluid temperatures are measured directly by thermocouples located underneath the test surface and in the liquid pool, respectively. Test results show that nucleate pool boiling HTCs of halogenated refrigerants increase as the heat flux and vapour pressure increase. This typical trend is maintained even at high heat fluxes above 200 kW/m2. Zuber's prediction equation for CHF is quite accurate showing a maximum deviation of 21 per cent for all refrigerants tested. For all refrigerants, Stephan and Abdelsalam's well-known correlation underpredicted nucleate boiling HTC data up to the CHF with an average deviation of 21.3 per cent, while Cooper's correlation overpredicted the data with an average deviation of 14.2 per cent. On the other hand, Gorenflo's and Jung et al.'s correlations showed 5.8 and 6.4 per cent deviations, respectively, in the entire nucleate boiling range up to the CHF.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ahmed ◽  
V. P. Carey

To explore the role of Marangoni effects in the pool boiling heat transfer of binary mixtures, experiments have been conducted with water/2-propanol mixtures at three different concentrations under normal gravity with different orientations of the heater surface. The system pressure was subatmospheric (∼5.5 kPa) and the bulk liquid temperature was near the saturation temperature of the fluids tested. The molar concentrations of2-propanol tested were 0.015, 0.025, and 0.1. These concentrations of 2-propanol are selected because their strong variation of surface tension with concentration gives rise to high surface tension gradients near the heater surface during nucleate boiling. Boiling curves were obtained both for an upward-facing and a downward-facing heater surface. For each concentration of 2-propanol, the critical heat flux has been reached in both orientations of the heater surface. Models of pool boiling heat transfer and the critical heat flux condition for binary mixtures are tested to correlate the data. Comparison of boiling curves and CHF obtained at different orientations of the heater surface indicates that there is strong gravity independent mechanism of boiling heat transfer in these mixtures.


2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdolali Khalili Sadaghiani ◽  
Ahmad Reza Motezakker ◽  
Alsan Volkan Özpınar ◽  
Gözde Özaydın İnce ◽  
Ali Koşar

New requirements for heat exchangers offered pool boiling heat transfer on structured and coated surfaces as one of the promising methods for effective heat removal. In this study, pool boiling experiments were conducted on polyhydroxyethylmethacrylate (pHEMA)-coated surfaces to investigate the effect of surface orientation on bubble dynamics and nucleate boiling heat transfer. pHEMA coatings with thicknesses of 50, 100, and 200 nm were deposited using the initiated chemical deposition (iCVD) method. De-ionized water was used as the working fluid. Experiments were performed on horizontal and inclined surfaces (inclination angles of 10 deg, 30 deg, 50 deg, and 70 deg) under the constant heat flux (ranging from 10 to 80 kW/m2) boundary condition. Obtained results were compared to their plain surface counterparts, and heat transfer enhancements were observed. Accordingly, it was observed that the bubble departure phenomenon was affected by heat flux and wall superheat on bare silicon surfaces, while the supply path of vapor altered the bubble departure process on pHEMA-coated surfaces. Furthermore, the surface orientation played a major role on bubble dynamics and could be considered as a mechanism for fast vapor removal from surfaces. Bubble coalescence and liquid replenishment on coated surfaces had a promising effect on heat transfer coefficient enhancement on coated surfaces. For horizontal surfaces, a maximum enhancement of 25% relative to the bare surface was achieved, while the maximum enhancement was 105% for the inclined coated surface under the optimum condition. iCVD was proven to be a practical method for coating surfaces for boiling heat transfer applications due to the obtained promising results.


2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwight Cooke ◽  
Satish G. Kandlikar

Pool boiling is of interest in high heat flux applications because of its potential for removing large amount of heat resulting from the latent heat of evaporation and little pressure drop penalty for circulating coolant through the system. However, the heat transfer performance of pool boiling systems is not adequate to match the cooling ability provided by enhanced microchannels operating under single-phase conditions. The objective of this work is to evaluate the pool boiling performance of structured surface features etched on a silicon chip. The performance is normalized with respect to a plain chip. This investigation also focuses on the bubble dynamics on plain and structured microchannel surfaces under various heat fluxes in an effort to understand the underlying heat transfer mechanism. It was determined that surface modifications to silicon chips can improve the heat transfer coefficient by a factor up to 3.4 times the performance of a plain chip. Surfaces with microchannels have shown to be efficient for boiling heat transfer by allowing liquid to flow through the open channels and wet the heat transfer surface while vapor is generated. This work is expected to lead to improved enhancement features for extending the pool boiling option to meet the high heat flux removal demands in electronic cooling applications.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilberto Moreno ◽  
Sreekant Narumanchi ◽  
Charles King

This study characterizes the pool boiling performance of HFO-1234yf (hydrofluoroolefin 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene). HFO-1234yf is a new, environmentally friendly refrigerant likely to replace HFC-134a in automotive air-conditioning systems. Pool boiling experiments were conducted at system pressures ranging from 0.7 to 1.7 MPa using horizontally oriented 1-cm2 heated surfaces. Test results for pure (oil-free) HFO-1234yf and HFC-134a were compared. The results showed that the boiling heat transfer coefficients of HFO-1234yf and HFC-134a were nearly identical at lower heat fluxes. HFO-1234yf yielded lower heat transfer coefficients at higher heat fluxes and lower critical heat flux (CHF) values as compared with HFC-134a. To enhance boiling heat transfer, a copper microporous coating was applied to the test surfaces. The coating enhanced both the boiling heat transfer coefficients and CHF for both refrigerants at all tested pressures. Increasing pressure decreased the level of heat transfer coefficient enhancements and increased the level of CHF enhancements. The experimental data were then used to develop a correlation for predicting the CHF for a smooth/plain heated surface.


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