Heat transfer performance of an oil jet impinging on a downward-facing stainless steel plate

An experimental study is carried out for the quenching of a stainless steel plate using a single oil jet impinging on the bottom surface of the plate. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of the oil jet flow operating conditions onto the heat transfer effectiveness when the plate is heated to temperatures ranging from around 115 to 630?C, and the oil is heated to temperatures ranging from 60 to 75?C. Tests are conducted on the oil at various temperatures to determine its viscosity. Experiments are conducted for nozzle exit flow rates ranging from 113 to 381 ml/min, oil jet pressures from 3.1 to 12 psi, and nozzle-to-plate surface distances of 0.6 and 1 cm. The variation of the oil heat flux and heat transfer coefficient with the surface temperature for the different quenching parameters is calculated from the acquired temperature data. Tests results show the oil heat transfer effectiveness keeps increasing for increasing plate temperature. Oil jet pressure is shown to have a considerable effect on the oil heat transfer, while the nozzle-to-plate surface distance is shown to have a lesser effect. The results of this study shall lead to a better understanding of the parameters that play an important role in oil quenching for applications that are of interest to the metal process industry.

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Conjugate Heat Transfer on Full-Coverage Film Cooling With Array Impingement Jets

Volume 5A: Heat Transfer ◽

10.1115/gt2015-43810 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eui Yeop Jung ◽

Heeyoon Chung ◽

Seok Min Choi ◽

Ta-kwan Woo ◽

Hyung Hee Cho

Keyword(s):

Heat Transfer ◽

Stainless Steel ◽

Film Cooling ◽

Steel Plate ◽

Hole Diameter ◽

Maximum Deviation ◽

Stainless Steel Plate ◽

Cooling Effectiveness ◽

Impingement Jet ◽

Film Cooling Holes

We report an investigation of the total cooling effectiveness of a film cooled surface with staggered array impingement jet cooling using infra-red thermography. Heat transfer experiments were carried out using three film cooled test plates of different thermal conductivities: stainless steel (with a thermal conductivity, k = 13.4 W/mK), Corian® (k = 1 W/mK), and polycarbonate (k = 0.2 W/mK). The effects of conduction through the test plates and convective heat transfer due to the arrayed impingement jets were analyzed. The inclination angle of the film cooling holes was 35° and that of the impingement jet holes was 90°. The film and impingement jet holes on each plate were arranged in a staggered pattern, and the film cooling holes and impingement jet holes were also positioned in a staggered pattern. The jet Reynolds number based on the hole diameter was Rejet = 3,000 and the equivalent blowing rate was M = 0.3. The ratio of the target surface height to the hole diameter was varied in the range 1 < H/d < 5. The diameter of both the film cooling holes and impingement jet holes was 5 mm. The total cooling effectiveness was investigated with and without the impingement jets. When the impingement jets were added to the internal cooling, the averaged total cooling effectiveness was enhanced about 8.4%. The stainless steel plate was found to exhibit better cooling performance with more uniform temperature distribution. The total cooling effectiveness was increased up to 0.87 in the stainless steel plate, and the maximum deviation of total cooling effectiveness in the stainless steel was reduced to 85% from that in polycarbonate plate along the lateral direction. The total cooling effectiveness was related to the Biot number of the film cooled plate, however, the effect of the H/d ratio was not significant.

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