Study on the Influence Factors of Heat Transfer Coefficient of Supercritical Water Under Different Circulation Modes

Author(s):  
Peng Xu ◽  
Tao Zhou ◽  
Jialei Zhang ◽  
Juan Chen ◽  
Zhongguan Fu

Abstract There are many factors that can affect the heat transfer coefficient (HTC) of supercritical water in forced and natural circulation. The correlation between the factors with the HTC under different circulation modes has an important influence on the reactor core design. By extracting the experimental data of supercritical water in forced circulation and natural circulation, the grey correlation model was used to analyze the relational degree between these factors with HTC. The results show that: Under the condition of forced circulation, there is a positive correlation between the inlet temperature, mass flow velocity, the thickness of the grid body with the HTC of supercritical water, and the order is: mass flow velocity > inlet temperature > the thickness of the grid body; there is a negative correlation between the pressure, heat flux with the heat transfer coefficient of supercritical water, and the order is: pressure > heat flux. Under the condition of natural circulation, there is a positively correlation between heating power, inlet temperature and circulation flow rate with HTC, and the order of magnitude is: circulation flow rate > heating power > inlet temperature; diameter and pressure are negatively correlated with heat transfer coefficient, and the order of magnitude is: pressure > diameter. In the two circulation modes, mass flow rate is an important factor affecting the heat transfer capacity of supercritical water, while the effect of heat flux on the heat transfer coefficient is contrary.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Xu ◽  
Tao Zhou ◽  
Ning Chen ◽  
Juan Chen ◽  
Zhongguan Fu

Abstract Heat transfer coefficient has an important influence on the flow and heat transfer of supercritical water in the core channels. The effects of different factors and their interactions on the heat transfer coefficient of the supercritical water were studied by full factorial experimental design method, such as pressure, mass flow rate, heat flux, and inlet temperature. The results show that: Within the range of the tested working conditions, effect D (inlet temperature), effect B (mass flow rate) and effect A (pressure) had a significant impact on the heat transfer coefficient, where the percentage contribution of effect D was 48.21%; effect B was 21.58%; effect A was 15.1%. The percentage contribution of other factors and their interactions on the heat transfer coefficient of the supercritical water can be ignored. At the same time, a prediction formula of heat transfer coefficient on supercritical water was fitted, and it was found that the prediction error of this formula conformed to the assumption of normality, and the prediction error was 10.5%.


Author(s):  
J. S. Hu ◽  
Christopher Y. H. Chao

Experiments were carried out to study the condensation flow pattern in silicon micro condenser using water as medium. Five flow patterns were identified under our experimental conditions. Slug-bubbly flow and droplet/liquid slug flow were found to be the two dominant flows in the micro condenser. These two flow patterns subsequently determined the heat transfer and pressure drop properties of the fluid. It was observed that only slug-bubbly flow existed in low steam mass flow and high heat flux conditions. When the steam mass flow rate increased or the heat flux dropped, mixed flow pattern occurred. An empirical correlation was obtained to predict when the transition of the flow pattern from slug-bubbly flow to mixed flow could appear. In the slug-bubbly flow regime, heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop in the micro condensers were studied. It was found that micro condensers with smaller channels could exhibit higher heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop. At constant heat flux, increasing the steam mass flow rate resulted in a higher heat transfer coefficient and also the pressure drop.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Xuan Jin ◽  
Chibing Shen ◽  
Xianyu Wu

The use of kerosene-based regenerative cooling for scramjet has been found widespread attention due to its inherent nature of high energy utilization efficiency and good thermal protection performance. In order to provide a reference for the later design and experiments, three-dimensional turbulence simulations and sensitivity analysis were performed to determine the effects of three operating mode parameters, heat flux, mass flow rate, and outlet pressure, on the regenerative cooling characteristics of kerosene scramjets. A single rectangular-shaped channel for regenerative cooling was assumed. The RNG k-ε turbulence model and kerosene cracking mechanism with single-step global reaction were applied for the supercritical-pressure heat transfer of kerosene flows in the channel. Conclusions can be drawn that as the kerosene temperature rises along the channel, the decrease of fluid density and viscosity contributes to increasing the fluid velocity and heat transfer. When the kerosene temperature is close to the pseudocritical temperature, the pyrolysis reaction results into the rapid increase of fluid velocity. However, the heat transfer deterioration occurs as the specific heat and thermal conductivity experience their turning points. The higher heat flux leads to lower heat transfer coefficient, and the latter stops rising when the wall temperature reaches the pseudocritical temperature. The same rising trend of the heat transfer coefficient is observed under different outlet pressures, but the heat transfer deterioration occurs earlier at smaller outlet pressure for the reason that the corresponding pseudocritical temperature decreases. The heat transfer coefficient increases significantly along with the rise of the mass flow rate, which is mainly attributable to the increase of Reynolds number. Quantitative results indicate that as the main influence factors, the heat flux and mass flow rate are respectively negatively and positively relative to the intensification of heat transfer, but outlet pressure always has little effects on cooling performance.


2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 3312-3315
Author(s):  
Bin Sun ◽  
Bin Bin Cui ◽  
Chao Liang

A three-dimensional physical mode of metal foam tube was built by CFD software. The Brinkman-Forchheimer extended Darcy equation and user-defined function (UFD) of the mass transfer and energy transfer between vapor phase and liquid phase compiled by C language were used in the simulation of boiling heat transfer in metal foam tube. The results show that, at a given mass flow rate, the pressure drop nonlinearly increases as the vapor quality rises; At the low mass flow rate, with the increasing of vapor quality, the flow pattern is transferred to wavy flow from stratified flow and then transfer to stratified wavy flow, while the heat transfer coefficient decreases with the increasing of vapor quality. At the high mass flow rate, with the increasing of vapor quality, the flow pattern is transferred to annular flow from slug flow, while the heat transfer coefficient increases with the increasing of vapor quality. The simulation results agree well with the experimental data.


1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. N. Ganic ◽  
M. N. Roppo

In this study, an experimental investigation was conducted with subcooled water film flowing over an electrically heated horizontal cylinder. The combinations of film flow rate and heat flux at which film breakdown occurs (i.e., dry patches appear on the surface) were determined. At the conditions prior to dry patch formation, the heat transfer coefficient was determined as well. The results showed that the heat flux needed to cause a dry patch increases with film flow rate. Also, prior to dry patch formation, the heat transfer coefficient increases with film flow rate. The effects of the tube spacing and the liquid film inlet temperature on the breakdown heat flux and heat transfer coefficient were also studied.


1970 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Shiralkar ◽  
P. Griffith

An investigation has been made of the factors governing the heat transfer coefficient to supercritical pressure fluids, particularly at high heat fluxes. The deterioration in heat transfer to supercritical carbon dioxide has been experimentally studied with reference to the operating conditions of mass velocity and heat flux, tube diameter, orientation, tape induced swirl, inlet temperature, and pressure. A detailed comparison has been made with the apparently contradictory results of other investigators, and operating regions, in which the heat transfer coefficient behaves differently, have been defined. The terms used to describe these regions are the Reynolds number, a heat-flux parameter, and a free-convection parameter.


Author(s):  
Zhongyun Ju ◽  
Tao Zhou ◽  
Jingjing Li ◽  
Zejun Xiao

Software CFX is used to build a typical natural circulation loop to study flow and heat transfer characteristics of water vapor, the vapor-liquid two-phase and supercritical water under natural circulation. During the process of natural circulation, the variation of parameters, heat transfer coefficient and mass flow is compared. It is found that when formed a natural circulation, the steam has a lower mass flow and heat transfer coefficient, while the two parameters of two-phase and supercritical water are higher. Indicates that the heat transfer capability of steam is weak, the steam cannot transfer heat out opportunely when serious accidents take place. The two-phase water is of high heat transfer coefficient. Supercritical water is of strong exchange capacity, supercritical water under natural circulation is a promising flow pattern.


Author(s):  
Peilin Cui ◽  
Zhenyu Liu

Abstract This study experimentally investigated the flow boiling of HFE-7100 in wavy copper microchannel heat sink (20 mm × 10 mm), which was fabricated with the ultrafast laser micromachining approach, consisting of 20 wavy microchannels with wavelength of 2000 μm and wave amplitude of 100 μm with triangular cross section (200 μm × 573 μm). The experiment was conducted with the mass fluxes of 330.07–550.11 kg/(m2·s) and heat flux of 14.5–411.3 kW/m2 at an inlet temperature of 15°C. Four flow patterns including bubbly flow, slug flow, churn flow and annular flow were captured with the visualization technique. Several confined bubbles with irregular shape were observed. In the low heat flux region, the dominant flow regime of heat transfer in the microchannels is the nucleate boiling and the heat transfer coefficient increases with increasing heat flux. With the nucleate boiling suppressed gradually, the evaporation of thin liquid film begins to dominate and the heat transfer coefficient decreases with the increase of heat flux. The heat flux has a significant effect on heat transfer coefficient compared with the mass flux and vapor quality.


2012 ◽  
Vol 249-250 ◽  
pp. 452-459
Author(s):  
Xiao Ming Tan ◽  
Ye Fang Li ◽  
Jing Zhou Zhang

Two-phase CFD calculations using commercial code Fluent were employed to calculate the air and droplet flows with and without mist in an impinging jet. The effects of phase changing of the water droplets, the mist injection rate, the heat flux of target and the geometrical parameters of the slot were studied to reveal the cooling effectiveness. The results show that the key enhancement mechanism of mist/air impinging jet is the effect of evaporation of the droplets. The wall temperature significantly decreased because of mist injection and the injection of 5% mist has a strengthen of cooling effectiveness with 89% enhancement. This enhancement would be reduced by higher heat flux of target wall. Concentration plays a major role in the cooling performance. Increasing the mist ratio makes the cooling strengthen significantly. A mist of 5% can provide a cooling enhancement of 32% at stagnation than the mist of 1%. The effect of the mist ratio on cooling declines gradually from the impingement area to the downstream area. A fit width and height ratio had a major impact on the cooling performance of mist/air impinging jet. For constant mist/air mass flow and inlet width b, when H/b increases, the heat transfer coefficient increases first and then decreases; for constant mist/air mass flow and impinging distance H, the heat transfer coefficient increases as H/b increases.


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