The Characteristics of Boiling Heat Transfer of R-600a-oil Mixture in a Circular Tube with Porous Inserts

2014 ◽  
Vol 610 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Mao Yu Wen ◽  
Kang Jang Jang

This investigation was carried out to study the characteristics of boiling heat transfer for hydrocarbon refrigerant R600a (isobutane)/oil mixtures flowing in a circular pipe within dispersed-copper porous inserts. The oil was the EMKARATE RL 32H with a viscosity 150 SUS. The test was conducted at a saturation temperature of 10 , vapor qualities from 0.076 to 0.87, inlet oil concentration from 0 to 3 mass% oil, mass flux of 120 1100 and heat flux of 12-65 . The effects of the concentration of the refrigerant/oil mixtures, and the sizes of inserts on the heat transfer of R-600a for present study were presented.

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Ba Chien ◽  
Kwang-Il Choi ◽  
Jong-Taek Oh

This study performed a comparison between experimental and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation results of boiling heat transfer coefficient of R410A in a small tube. The experimental data were obtained in the horizontal circular tubes of 3.0[Formula: see text]mm inner diameter, the length of 3000[Formula: see text]mm including: mass flux and heat flux in a range from 300[Formula: see text]kg/m2s to 600[Formula: see text]kg/m2s and from 5[Formula: see text]kW/m2 to 10[Formula: see text]kW/m2, respectively, and the saturation temperature constantly kept at 20[Formula: see text]C. In the simulation procedure, the Eulerian multiphase with wall boiling were obtained. The effects of mass flux and heat flux on the heat transfer coefficient of R410A were analyzed. The comparative data between CFD and experiment was also illustrated.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Parlatan ◽  
U. S. Rohatgi

A simple method has been developed to model boiling heat transfer from a heat exchanger to pools using the experimental data available in the literature without modeling the flow dynamics of the pool. In this approach the heat flux outside vertical tubes is expressed as a function of outside wall temperature of the tubes and saturation temperature of the pool at or near atmospheric pressure.


Author(s):  
Audrius Jasiulevicius ◽  
Rafael Macian-Juan

This paper presents the results of the assessment and analysis of TRACE v4.160 heat transfer predictions in the post-CHF (critical heat flux) region and discusses the possibilities to improve the TRACE v4.160 code predictions in the film boiling heat transfer when applying different film boiling correlations. For this purpose, the TRACE v4.160-calculated film boiling heat flux and the resulting maximum inner wall temperatures during film boiling in single tubes were compared with experimental data obtained at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. The experimental database included measurements for pressures ranging from 30 to 200 bar and coolant mass fluxes from 500 to 3000 kg/m2s. It was found that TRACE v4.160 does not produce correct predictions of the film boiling heat flux, and consequently of the maximum inner wall temperature in the test section, under the wide range of conditions documented in the KTH experiments. In particular, it was found that the standard TRACE v4.160 underpredicts the film boiling heat transfer coefficient at low pressure-low mass flux and high pressure-high mass flux conditions. For most of the rest of the investigated range of parameters, TRACE v4.160 overpredicts the film boiling heat transfer coefficient, which can lead to non-conservative predictions in applications to nuclear power plant analyses. Since no satisfactory agreement with the experimental database was obtained with the standard TRACE v4.160 film boiling heat transfer correlations, we have added seven film boiling correlations to TRACE v4.160 in order to investigate the possibility to improve the code predictions for the conditions similar to the KTH tests. The film boiling correlations were selected among the most commonly used film boiling correlations found in the open literature, namely Groeneveld 5.7, Bishop (2 correlations), Tong, Konkov, Miropolskii and Groeneveld-Delorme correlations. The only correlation among the investigated, which resulted in a significant improvement of TRACE predictions, was the Groeneveld 5.7. It was found, that replacing the current film boiling correlation (Dougall-Rohsenow) for the wall-togas heat transfer with Groeneveld 5.7 improves the code predictions for the film boiling heat transfer at high qualities in single tubes in the entire range of pressure and coolant mass flux considered.


Author(s):  
Hiroyasu Ohtake ◽  
Tomoyasu Tanaki ◽  
Yasuo Koizumi

Boiling heat transfer and critical heat flux—CHF—in mist cooling were investigated experimentally and analytically. Especially, the heat transfer in the mist cooling was examined focusing on the effects of droplet size and droplet velocity on the heat transfer characteristics. Steady state experiments of heat transfer were conducted using a pure copper cylinder and mist flow of water-air at room temperature. Liquid flow rate was 0.3, 0.9, 1.8, 4 and 8 l/hr, respectively; each air flow rate on normal condition was 0, 40, 75 and 120 lN/min. Furthermore, liquid mass flux on the heater surface for each experimental condition was measured by using a cylinder with a scale and the same diameter as the heater. Distribution of air velocity, average velocity of droplets and average diameter of droplets were measured by using a fine Pitot tube, laser doppler anemometry and immersion method, respectively. Three correlations of the mist cooling rate for non-boiling, evaporation of droplets and evaporation of the liquid film were developed by using the measured liquid mass flux, characteristic droplet velocity and wall superheat. A CHF model was presented by focusing on maximum evaporation rate of the liquid mass flux on a heater. A droplet evaporation model was proposed by using the transient heat conduction in a sphere. Finally, three dimensionless correlations for the mist cooling were presented.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
YanFeng Fan ◽  
Ibrahim Hassan

Flow boiling heat transfer in a horizontal microtube with inlet restriction (orifice) under uniform heating condition is experimentally investigated using FC-72 as working fluid. A stainless steel microtube with an inner diameter of 889 μm is selected as main microtube. Two microtubes with smaller diameters are assembled at the inlet of main microtube to achieve the restriction ratios of 50% and 20%. The experimental measurement is carried out at mass fluxes ranging from 160 to 870 kg/m2·s, heat fluxes varying from 6 to 170 kW/m2, inlet temperatures of 23 and 35 °C, and saturation pressures of 10 and 45 kPa. The effects of the orifices on two-phase pressure drop, critical heat flux (CHF), and flow boiling heat transfer coefficient are studied. The results show that the pressure drop caused by the orifice takes a considerable portion in the total pressure drop at low mass fluxes. This ratio decreases as the vapor quality or mass flux increases. The difference of normal critical heat flux in the microtubes with different orifice sizes is negligible. In the aspect of flow boiling heat transfer, the orifice is able to enhance the heat transfer at low mass flux and high saturation pressure, which indicates the contribution of orifice in the nucleate boiling dominated regime. However, the effect of orifice on flow boiling heat transfer is negligible in the forced convective boiling dominated regime.


Author(s):  
Bao Truong ◽  
Lin-wen Hu ◽  
Jacopo Buongiorno ◽  
Thomas McKrell

Nanofluids are engineered colloidal dispersions of nano-sized particle in common base fluids. Previous pool boiling studies have shown that nanofluids can improve critical heat flux (CHF) up to 200% for pool boiling and up to 50% for subcooled flow boiling due to the boiling induced nanoparticle deposition on the heated surface. Motivated by the significant CHF enhancement of nanoparticle deposited surface, this study investigated experimentally the subcooled flow boiling heat transfer of pre-coated test sections in water. Using a separate coating loop, stainless steel test sections were treated via flow boiling of alumina nanofluids at constant heat flux and mass flow rate. The pre-coated test sections were then used in another loop to measure subcooled flow boiling heat transfer coefficient and CHF with water. The CHF values for the pre-coated tubing were found on average to be 28% higher than bare tubing at high mass flux G = 2500 kg/m2 s. However, no enhancement was found at lower mass flux G = 1500 kg/m2 s. The heat transfer coefficients did not differ much between experiments when the bare or coated tubes were used. SEM images of the test sections confirm the presence of a nanoparticle coating layer. The nanoparticle deposition is sporadic and no relationship between the coating pattern and the amount of CHF enhancement is observed.


2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Tao Ji ◽  
Ding-Cai Zhang ◽  
Nan Feng ◽  
Jian-Fei Guo ◽  
Mitsuharu Numata ◽  
...  

Pool boiling heat transfer coefficients of R134a with different lubricant mass fractions for one smooth tube and five enhanced tubes were tested at a saturation temperature of 6°C. The lubricant used was polyvinyl ether. The lubrication mass fractions were 0.25%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 2.0%, 3.0%, 5.0%, 7.0%, and 10.0%, respectively. Within the tested heat flux range, from 9000 W/m2 to 90,000 W/m2, the lubricant generally has a different influence on pool boiling heat transfer of these six tubes.


Author(s):  
K. S. Park ◽  
W. H. Choo ◽  
K. H. Bang

The flow boiling heat transfer coefficient of R-22 in small hydraulic diameter tubes has been experimentally studied. Both brass and aluminum round tubes of 1.66 mm inside diameter are used for the test section. The ranges of the major experimental parameters are 300∼600 kg/m2s of refrigerant mass flux, 10∼20 kW/m2 of the wall heat flux, 0.0∼0.9 of the inlet vapor quality. The experimental result showed that the flow boiling heat transfer coefficient in this small tubes are in the range of 2∼4 kW/m2K and it varies only by heat flux, independent of mass flux and vapor quality. It is also observed that the heat transfer coefficients in the aluminum tube are up to 50% higher than in the brass tube.


Author(s):  
Nae-Hyun Kim ◽  
Wang-Kyu Oh ◽  
Jung-Ho Ham ◽  
Do-Young Kim ◽  
Tae-Ryong Shin

Convective boiling heat transfer coefficients of R-22 were obtained in a flat extruded aluminum tube with Dh = 1.41 mm. The test range covered mass flux from 100 to 600 kg/m2 s, heat flux from 5 to 15 kW/m2 and saturation temperature from 5°C to 15°C. The heat transfer coefficient curve shows a decreasing trend after a certain quality (critical quality). The critical quality decreases as the heat flux increases, and as the mass flux decreases. The early dryout at a high heat flux results in a unique ‘cross-over’ of the heat transfer coefficient curves. The heat transfer coefficient increases as the mass flux increases. At a low quality region, however, the effect of mass flux is not prominent. The heat transfer coefficient increases as the saturation temperature increases. The effect of saturation temperature, however, diminishes as the heat flux decreases. Both the Shah and the Kandlikar correlations underpredict the low mass flux and overpredict the high mass flux data.


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