scholarly journals Studies of Critical Heat Fluxes in Small Diameter Channels

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Vladimir Ivanovich Belozerov
Keyword(s):  
Small Diameter ◽  
Heat Fluxes

Boiling Heat Transfer on Small Diameter Tube Bundle

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebenezer Adom ◽  
Peter Kew ◽  
Keith Cornwell
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Tube Bundle ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Tube Bank ◽  
Central Column ◽  
The Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Outside Diameter

An experimental study has been carried out using a tube bank representing a section of a tube bundle. The bank comprised 3 columns each of 10 stainless steel electrically heated tubes of 3mm outside diameter with pitch to diameter ratio of 1.5 in an in-line arrangement. Flow rate through the test section was controlled. Each tube in the central column was instrumented to permit determination of the tube temperature and heat flux, hence permitting calculation of the heat transfer coefficient. These tests were carried out using distilled water at nominal atmospheric pressure over a range of heat fluxes between 6 - 21 kW/m2. Results of the heat transfer tests are presented and compared with correlations used for conventionally sized bundles. Correlations developed for large tube bundle overestimate the experimental results.

Boiling Heat Transfer to Dilute Emulsions From a Vertical Heated Strip

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew L. Roesle ◽  
David L. Lunde ◽  
Francis A. Kulacki
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Free Convection ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Lower Surface ◽  
Vertical Surface ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Convection Boundary Layer ◽  
Direct Current Resistance

Heat transfer measurements for nucleate pool boiling of a dilute emulsion on a short vertical surface are reported. The vertical surface is a thin steel ribbon of 1.35 mm height × 101 mm length. Direct current resistance heating produces boiling either on the surface or in the free convection boundary layer of dilute emulsions of pentane in water and FC-72 in water. Single phase and boiling heat transfer is measured for emulsions with a volume fraction of the dispersed component of 0.1% and 0.5% in a pool at approximately 25 °C. The dispersed component is created by a simple atomization process and no surfactants are employed to maintain the droplets of the dispersed phase in suspension. In free convection, the presence of the dispersed component somewhat impedes heat transfer, but when boiling commences enhancement of heat transfer is observed. Boiling is observed in the emulsions at lower surface temperatures than for water alone, and significantly more superheat is required to initiate boiling of the dispersed component than would be needed for a pool of the dispersed component alone. Consequently, a temperature over shoot is observed prior to initiation of boiling, and such an over shoot has been observed in several prior studies. Boiling heat fluxes are compared to recently published measurements of boiling in similar emulsions on a small diameter horizontal wire. Boiling generally occurs at a slightly higher degree of superheat of the dispersed component on the heated strip as compared to thin wires.

Comparison of the Three–Zone Evaporation Model with Boiling Heat Transfer in a Compact Tube Bundle

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Ebenezer Adom ◽  
Peter Kew ◽  
Keith Cornwell
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Tube Bundle ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Evaporation Model ◽  
Mass Fluxes ◽  
Micro Channels ◽  
Three State Model ◽  
Outside Diameter

The recent interest in boiling heat transfer in small diameter tubes has led to the study of boiling heat transfer outside a compact tube bundle of diameter 3mm. The bank comprised 3 columns each of 10 stainless steel electrically heated tubes of 3mm outside diameter, with pitch to diameter ratio of 1.5 in an in-line arrangement. These tests were carried out using distilled water and R113 at nominal atmospheric pressure over a range of heat fluxes between 4-21 kW/m2 for mass fluxes from G=5.6 - 32.8 kg/m2s. The recent three-zone evaporation model developed by Thome, Dupont and Jacobi for boiling inside micro channels was used to compare with experimental results as photographic study showed that bubbles confined within the bundle were responsible for the heat transfer enhancement observed. It was observed that the three state model was promising in its application to the bundle arrangement as the confinement number Co for bundle has been shown to be in the order of 0.63

Micro-Jet Arrays for Cooling of Electronic Equipment

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Overholt ◽  
Andrew McCandless ◽  
Kevin W. Kelly ◽  
Charles J. Becnel ◽  
Shariar Motakef
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Electronic Equipment ◽  
Return Flow ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
Jet Cooling ◽  
Single Jet

A high heat flux cooling system using an array of micro-jets is presented. The Micro-Jet Cooling Array (MJCA) is based on an array of small diameter micro-jets, with jet diameters as low as 300 microns. The return flow in MJCA is arranged so that the effect of neighboring jets is essentially eliminated and the high heat fluxes achievable in a single jet are reproduced over large areas. MJCA has been machined using the LIGA process and has been extensively tested. Extremely high heat fluxes have been achieved with MJCA, making is suitable for a variety of high heat flux applications.

scholarly journals Studies of critical heat fluxes in small diameter channels

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-348
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Belozerov
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Coolant Flow ◽  
Wall Region ◽  
The Core ◽  
Flow Parameters

The paper presents the results of experimental studies of critical heat flows in vertical small diameter channels, when the coolant moves from bottom to top, which were carried out in the Obninsk branch of MEPhI in the 1970s of the last century but have not become widespread due to the lack of demand for their practical use. Nowadays, the interest in such works is manifested, first of all, in the development of compact plants and devices, particularly in nuclear power engineering. As a coolant, water, Freon-12 and 96% ethyl alcohol were used. High velocities of underheated liquid at high heat fluxes on the channel wall lead to the so-called “fast crisis” of heat transfer. In this case, the magnitude of the heat flux depends mainly on the parameters of the coolant flow in the wall zone rather than the flow core. The “slow crisis” is mainly observed at high vapor concentrations, relatively low mass flow rates and in an annular-dispersed flow. The value of the critical heat flow in this case depends mainly on the flow parameters in the core, which are probably close to the average coolant flow parameters. The conditions in the near-wall region are also largely determined by the flow in the core. High heat transfer coefficients in a flow moving at high speed usually result in a much smaller and slower rise in the wall temperature. Sometimes a DNB heat flux can occur bypassing the boiling process. In the core of a VVER-type reactor operating in its nominal mode, surface boiling is present in a number of fuel rods. Probably, surface boiling will also be present in transportable and small-size nuclear power plants. Therefore, an important task is to conduct relevant research in this area.

Experimental Study of Horizontal Flow Boiling Heat Transfer of R134a at a Saturation Temperature of 18.6 °C

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Dorao ◽  
Oscar Blanco Fernandez ◽  
Maria Fernandino
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Boiling ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Saturation Temperature ◽  
Local Heat Transfer ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Flow Boiling Heat Transfer

In spite of the extensive work in flow boiling in small-diameter tubes, the general characteristics and dominant mechanisms remain elusive. In this study, flow boiling heat transfer of R134a inside a 5 mm I.D., smooth horizontal stainless steel pipe is experimentally studied. Local heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) were measured for heat fluxes from 3.9 to 47 kW/m2 and mass fluxes from 200 to 400 kg/m2 s at a saturation temperature of 18.6 °C. The studied cases have shown different behaviors at low and high heat fluxes. At low heat fluxes, the convective contribution looks to control the HTC, while at high heat fluxes the nucleation of vapor looks to be the dominant mechanism. Reducing the heat flux, the HTC approaches asymptotically a limit equivalent to the single-phase HTC defined in terms of the sum of the superficial liquid and vapor Reynolds numbers. A new correlation for dominant convective flow boiling is proposed and evaluated against experimental data from the literature.

Boiling Heat Transfer in a Horizontal Small-Diameter Tube

1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (4) ◽  
pp. 963-972 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. Wambsganss ◽  
D. M. France ◽  
J. A. Jendrzejczyk ◽  
T. N. Tran
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Flow Pattern ◽  
Slug Flow ◽  
Boiling Heat Transfer ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Mean Deviation ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Transfer Coefficients ◽  
Two Phase

Results of a study on boiling heat transfer of refrigerant R-113 in a small-diameter (2.92 mm) tube are reported. Local heat transfer coefficients are measured for a range of heat flux (8.8–90.75 kW/m2), mass flux (50–300 kg/m2s), and equilibrium mass quality (0–0.9). The measured coefficients are used to evaluate 10 different heat transfer correlations, some of which have been developed specifically for refrigerants. High heat fluxes and low mass fluxes are inherent in small channels, and this combination results in high boiling numbers. In addition, based on a flow pattern map developed from adiabatic experiments with air-water mixtures, it has been shown that small-diameter channels produce a slug flow pattern over a large range of parameters when compared with larger-diameter channels. The effects of high boiling number and slug flow pattern lead to domination by a nucleation mechanism. As a result, the two-phase correlations that predicted this dominance also predicted the data the best when they properly modeled the physical parameters. The correlation of Lazarek and Black (1982) predicted the data very well. It is also shown that a simple form, suggested by Stephan and Abdelsalam (1980) for nucleate pool boiling, correlates the data equally well; both correlations are within a mean deviation of less than 13 percent. Results are applicable to boiling in compact heat exchangers.

A Replica Technique for the Inside Surfaces of Small Diameter Pipes and Tubes

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 352-353
Author(s):  
T. G. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Polyvinyl Chloride ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Replica Technique ◽  
Tube Size ◽  
Inside Diameter ◽  
Complete Inspection ◽  
Operating Limits

A nondestructive replica technique permitting complete inspection of bore surfaces having an inside diameter from 0.050 inch to 0.500 inch is described. Replicas are thermally formed on the outside surface of plastic tubing inflated in the bore of the sample being studied. This technique provides a new medium for inspection of bores that are too small or otherwise beyond the operating limits of conventional inspection methods.Bore replicas may be prepared by sliding a length of plastic tubing completely through the bore to be studied as shown in Figure 1. Polyvinyl chloride tubing suitable for this replica process is commercially available in sizes from 0.037- to 0.500-inch diameter. A tube size slightly smaller than the bore to be replicated should be used to facilitate insertion of the plastic replica blank into the bore.

Structural Organization and Distribution of Fiber Types in Extraocular Muscles of Cats

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Asish C. Nag ◽  
Lee D. Peachey
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Type ◽  
Light And Electron Microscopy ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Extraocular Muscles ◽  
Fiber Types ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Superior Rectus ◽  
Adult Cats ◽  
Different Diameters ◽  
Orbital Region

Cat extraocular muscles consist of two regions: orbital, and global. The orbital region contains predominantly small diameter fibers, while the global region contains a variety of fibers of different diameters. The differences in ultrastructural features among these muscle fibers indicate that the extraocular muscles of cats contain at least five structurally distinguishable types of fibers.Superior rectus muscles were studied by light and electron microscopy, mapping the distribution of each fiber type with its distinctive features. A mixture of 4% paraformaldehyde and 4% glutaraldehyde was perfused through the carotid arteries of anesthetized adult cats and applied locally to exposed superior rectus muscles during the perfusion.

Prospects for convergent beam electron diffraction with a 200kV cold field-emission transmission electron microscope

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 466-467
Author(s):  
J W Steeds ◽  
R Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Field Emission ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Small Diameter ◽  
Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction ◽  
Zone Axis ◽  
Medium Voltage ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Good Crystallinity ◽  
Special Modification ◽  
Convergent Beam

We review the analytical powers which will become more widely available as medium voltage (200-300kV) TEMs with facilities for CBED on a nanometre scale come onto the market. Of course, high performance cold field emission STEMs have now been in operation for about twenty years, but it is only in relatively few laboratories that special modification has permitted the performance of CBED experiments. Most notable amongst these pioneering projects is the work in Arizona by Cowley and Spence and, more recently, that in Cambridge by Rodenburg and McMullan.There are a large number of potential advantages of a high intensity, small diameter, focussed probe. We discuss first the advantages for probes larger than the projected unit cell of the crystal under investigation. In this situation we are able to perform CBED on local regions of good crystallinity. Zone axis patterns often contain information which is very sensitive to thickness changes as small as 5nm. In conventional CBED, with a lOnm source, it is very likely that the information will be degraded by thickness averaging within the illuminated area.

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