CRITICAL REVIEW ON HEAT FLUX AND PRESSURE DROP OF SUBCOOLED FLOW BOILING IN SMALL-DIAMETER TUBES WITH TWISTED-TAPE INSERTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-6) ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
W. Tong ◽  
Arthur E. Bergles ◽  
Michael K. Jensen
Author(s):  
Farzad Houshmand ◽  
Hyoungsoon Lee ◽  
Mehdi Asheghi ◽  
Kenneth E. Goodson

As the proper cooling of the electronic devices leads to significant increase in the performance, two-phase heat transfer to dielectric liquids can be of an interest especially for thermal management solutions for high power density devices with extremely high heat fluxes. In this paper, the pressure drop and critical heat flux (CHF) for subcooled flow boiling of methanol at high heat fluxes exceeding 1 kW/cm2 is investigated. Methanol was propelled into microtubes (ID = 265 and 150 μm) at flow rates up to 40 ml/min (mass fluxes approaching 10000 kg/m2-s), boiled in a portion of the microtube by passing DC current through the walls, and the two-phase pressure drop and CHF were measured for a range of operating parameters. The two-phase pressure drop for subcooled flow boiling was found to be significantly lower than the saturated flow boiling case, which can lead to lower pumping powers and more stability in the cooling systems. CHF was found to be increasing almost linearly with Re and inverse of inner diameter (1/ID), while for a given inner diameter, it decreases with increasing heated length.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2119 (1) ◽  
pp. 012053
Author(s):  
A. S. Shamirzaev

Abstract An experimental study of the pressure drop under subcooled flow boiling of the refrigerant R141b in a system with two slotted microchannels was carried out. A copper block with two microchannels 2 mm wide, 0.4 mm deep, and 16 mm long was used as an experimental section for testing. The mass flow rate varied in the range from 1 to 4 g/s, the initial subcooling from 20°C to 50°C. Experimental data show a significant decrease in the pressure drop when the critical heat flux is reached. The experimental data are compared with the model known from the literature. Experimental data show that the occurrence of nucleate boiling incipience at subcooled boiling corresponds to a larger heat flux than that given by the recommended correlation.


1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Tong ◽  
Arthur E. Bergles ◽  
Michael K. Jensen

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