A nucleate boiling limitation model for the prediction of pool boiling CHF

A nucleate boiling limitation model which is applicable to the heat transfer prediction in the nucleate boiling region and the CHF was proposed for a pool boiling. The present model was developed based on the direct observations of the physical boiling phenomena. The predicted boiling curves for the nucleate boiling region agree well with both the vertical and the horizontal surface data for all the contact angles. The predicted CHF for the vertical surface also agrees well with the experimental data, but the present model underpredicts the CHF by about 30% for the horizontal surface data.     

Experimental and theoretical studies on subcooled flow boiling of pure liquids and multicomponent mixtures

To improve the design of modern industrial reboilers, accurate knowledge of boiling heat transfer coefficients is essential. In this study flow boiling heat transfer coefficients for binary and ternary mixtures of acetone, isopropanol and water were measured over a wide range of heat flux, subcooling, flow velocity and composition. The measurements cover the regimes of convective heat transfer, transitional boiling and fully developed subcooled flow boiling. Two models are presented for the prediction of flow boiling heat transfer coefficients. The first model is the combination of the Chen model with the Gorenflo correlation and the Schlünder model for single and multicomponent boiling, respectively. This model predicts flow boiling heat transfer coefficients with acceptable accuracy, but fails to predict the nucleate boiling fraction NBF reasonably well. The second model is based on the asymptotic addition of forced convective and nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficients. The benefit of this model is a further improvement in the accuracy of flow boiling heat transfer coefficient over the Chen type model, simplicity and the more realistic prediction of the nucleate boiling fraction NBF.     

表面强化管外池沸腾传热特性研究

为实现节能降耗,开发了多种强化沸腾传热的高效换热管。以水为工质,在0.1MPa下对垂直光管、烧结多孔管和T槽管进行了池沸腾传热实验研究,并分析了沿管子轴向的温度分布。实验结果表明,烧结多孔管与T槽管能显著降低起始沸腾过热度、强化沸腾传热:烧结多孔管和T槽管的起始沸腾过热度比光管的低1.5K左右;烧结多孔管和T槽管的核态沸腾传热系数分别为光管的2.4～3.2倍和1.6～2.0倍。此外,烧结多孔管和T槽管能降低相同热流密度下的壁面温度,且有利于降低管子轴向的温差。     

Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer characteristics of dilute Al2O3–ethyleneglycol nanofluids

Pool boiling heat transfer coefficients of dilute stabilized Al₂O₃–ethyleneglycol nanofluids as possible coolant fluid are experimentally quantified. The influence of different parameters such as heat flux, heating surface nano-roughness, concentration of nanofluids and fouling resistance on the pool boiling heat transfer coefficient of alumina nanofluids has experimentally been investigated and briefly discussed. Results demonstrated that there are two heat transfer regions with different mechanisms namely free convection and nucleate boiling heat transfer. Studies on the influence of parameter demonstrated that with increasing the heat flux, the pool boiling heat transfer coefficient of nanofluids significantly increases. In contrast, with increasing the concentration of nanofluid, due to the deposition of nanoparticles on the surface, the average roughness of the surface and the heat transfer coefficient dramatically deteriorate, while a significant increase in fouling resistance is reported. Also, studies reveal asymptotic and rectilinear behaviors of fouling resistance parameter in nucleate boiling and free convective domains.     

Simulation on nucleate boiling in micro-channel

Using the VOF multiphase flow model, numerical simulations are conducted to investigate the nucleate boiling of water in micro-channels. The Marangoni heat transfer through the bubble surface is analyzed, and is compared with the incipient heat flux at the onset of nucleate boiling in micro-channels. The bubble growth in the channel is divided into two stages. At the initial stage, bubble growth is controlled by surface tension, while at the second stage the incipient heat transfer dominated the boiling process. In the results, the full process of bubble generating, growing, departing, combining, and shrinking in the channel is displayed. The simulated results with similar condition are agreed well with some experimental results in references. The method and discussion in the paper are helpful to the investigation of the mechanism of micro-scale two-phase flow and heat transfer.     

CaCO3垢的形成对池核沸腾传热的影响

在一水平圆形加热表面上通过实验考察了饱和池核沸腾和过冷池核沸腾时CaCO3垢的生成对传热的影响。结果表明，在饱和池核沸腾和过冷池核沸腾的初始阶段沸腾传热系数均呈先降低后升高、达到一个最大值后稳定降低的趋势，而且在初始阶段出现了负污垢热阻现象。在相同操作条件下，过冷池核沸腾传热系数明显低于饱和池核沸腾传热系数。在分析污垢的生成和生长影响表面活化中心的基础上，对污垢的形成对沸腾传热的影响进行了机理分析。     

Study on boiling heat transfer in liquid saturated particle bed and fluidized bed

An investigation on the effects of solid particles on boiling heat transfer enhancement is performed. The range of particle diameter is from millimeter to nanometer. The experimental results show that boiling heat transfer can be enhanced greatly by adding the solid particle into the liquid whether in fixed particle bed or in fluidized particle bed. The boiling enhancement is closely related to the particle size, the initial bed depth and the heat flux applied. The experiments show that boiling characteristics are greatly changed when a particle layer is put on the heated surface. The major effects of fixed particle bed on nucleate pool boiling heat transfer are the nucleation, bubble moving and thermal conductivity effect. A boiling heat transfer correlation is obtained to predict the boiling heat transfer coefficients in a liquid saturated porous bed. A volumetric convection mechanism of boiling heat transfer enhancement by fluidized particles is proposed. The calculated results from the model suggested in this paper agree reasonably with the experimental values.     

Numerical Investigation of Saturated Flow Boiling in Microchannels by the Lattice Boltzmann Method

Bubble formation in saturated flow boiling in 2D microchannels, generated from a microheater under constant wall heat flux or constant wall temperature conditions, is studied numerically based on a newly developed lattice Boltzmann model for liquid-vapor phase change. Simulations are carried out to study effects of inlet velocity, contact angle, and heater size on saturated flow boiling of water under constant wall heat flux conditions. Important information, such as effects of static contact angle on nucleation time and nucleation temperature, which was unable to be obtained by other numerical simulation methods, is obtained. Furthermore, effects of inlet velocity, contact angle, and superheat on nucleate boiling heat transfer in steady flow boiling of water under constant wall temperature conditions are also presented. It is found that the nucleate boiling heat transfer at the microheater is higher if the heater surface is more hydrophilic, because the superheated vapor at the hydrophilic wall has a thinner thermal boundary layer and a larger thermal conductivity.     

Transient boiling heat transfer performances of subcooled water during quenching process

Transient boiling of subcooled water on a vertical flat surface during quenching process was visually observed using high-speed photography technology and analyzed by special boiling heat transfer models. After the quenching process began, the nucleation was initiated within a short time, and then followed by the outbreak transition boiling with extremely unstable bubbles and sharp heat flux increment which lasted only for about 1 s. According to the boiling curves, the nucleate boiling should be divided into two stages including the stable nucleate boiling and transition nucleate boiling with the effects of initial conditions. The outbreak transition boiling was first studied by special boiling curve corresponding to the temperature decrement, and was further analyzed using a theoretical model based on the combination of the boiling heat flux evolution and lumped parameter assumption. The results showed that the boiling curve of outbreak transition boiling predicted by the theoretical model had a good agreement with experimental data and the heat flux almost had linear relation with the square root of temperature decrement.     

Nucleate boiling on the superhydrophilic surface with a small water impingement jet

In this study, the coating process on the copper surface with titanium dioxide (TiO₂) has been introduced. The coated surface exhibits extremely high affinity for water and the solid–liquid contact angle decreases nearly to zero by exposing the surface to ultra-violet light. This superhydrophilic characteristic was applied to nucleate boiling heat transfer of water jet impingement on a flat heated plate. By making use of this special heat transfer surface, the nucleate boiling heat transfer and the critical heat flux (CHF) of a bar water jet impingement on a large flat superhydrophilic surface was experimentally investigated. The experimental data were measured in a steady state. The purified water was employed as the working liquid. Three main influencing factors, i.e., subcooling, impact velocity and the surface coating condition, were changed and their effects on the nucleate boiling heat transfer and the CHF were investigated. The empirical correlations were obtained for predicting the CHF of steady boiling for a small round water jet impingement on a large flat superhydrophilic surface. The experimental results show that the CHF on the superhydrophilic surface is about 30% higher than that on conventional copper surface by decreasing the solid–liquid contact angle.     

An Experimental Investigation of Nucleate Pool Boiling Heat Transfer of Nanofluids From a Hemispherical Surface

An experimental investigation of nucleate pool boiling heat transfer is carried out using SiO₂ nanofluid in atmospheric pressure and saturated conditions. The results show that the nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient (HTC) of the nanofluids is lower than that of deionized water, especially in high heat fluxes. In addition, the experimental results indicate that the critical heat flux (CHF) improves up to 45% with the increase of the nanoparticle volume concentration. Atomic force microscopy images from the boiling surface reveal that the nanoparticles are deposited on the heating surface during the nanofluid pool boiling experiments. It is found that the boiling HTC deteriorates as a result of the reduction in active nucleation sites and the formation of extra thermal resistance due to blocked vapor in the porous structures near the heating surface. Furthermore, the improvement of the surface wettability causes an increase in CHF. Based on the experimental investigations, it can be concluded that the changes in the properties of the boiling surface are mainly responsible for the variations in nanofluids boiling performance.     

Pool boiling heat transfer with nano-porous surface

Anodizing technique has been recognized as an efficient way to grow the well-ordered oxide nano-structures on metal substrate. In the present experimental study, the nucleate pool boiling heat transfer coefficient and long-term performance of nano-porous surface fabricated by the cost-effective and simple anodizing technique were investigated with water. The incipient wall superheat of pool boiling in nano-porous surface was lower than that in non-coating surface. The nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient of nano-porous coating surface appeared higher than that of non-coating surface particularly at the low heat flux condition. The higher coefficient remained throughout 500 h of operation.     

Direct numerical simulations of pool boiling curves including heater's thermal responses and the effect of vapor phase's thermal conductivity

Effects of heater's thermal properties and vapor phase's thermal conductivity on saturated pool boiling above a large horizontal heater are simulated numerically based on an improved pseudo-potential liquid-vapor phase change lattice Boltzmann model. A transient conjugate heat transfer problem is under consideration, where the conjugate thermal boundary condition is imposed and heater's thermal responses during boiling processes are investigated. Saturated pool boiling curves from onset of nucleate boiling to critical heat flux (CHF), to transition boiling regime to stable film boiling regime are obtained numerically. It is found that the simulated critical heat flux (CHF) agrees reasonably well with existing analytical models. Also, the simulated boiling heat fluxes in stable film boiling regime are shown to be in good agreement with the existing analytical solution. Thus, this improved pseudo-potential liquid-vapor phase change lattice Boltzmann model is quantitatively validated. Simulation results demonstrate that there is significant maldistribution in temperature distribution near the top of heater surface in nucleate boiling regime, CHF point and transition boiling regime. As a result, two-dimensional heat conduction can not be ignored when evaluating heat flux closely beneath the heater's top surface. It is also shown that both heater's thermal conductivity and thermal mass (the product of density and specific heat at constant pressure) have no effect on CHF value as well as the boiling curve in nucleate boiling regime and film boiling regime for a thick heater. However, the transition boiling regime of the boiling curve moves to the left with the increasing heater thermal conductivity and heater thermal mass for a thick heater. Increasing the vapor theraml conductivity has no effect on CHF but would increase boiling heat flux in film boiling regime, and hence shortening the transition boiling regime.     

Towards a unifying heat transfer correlation for the entire boiling curve

The mechanistic understanding of boiling processes is still inadequate. Major physical effects determining the heat transfer in high heat flux nucleate and transition boiling regions have not yet been captured adequately. Thus, existing design correlations are often valid only for one of the boiling regimes. In this paper, the wetting structure close to the boiling surface is identified using the experimental data from an optical probe, obtained during pool boiling of FC-72 on a horizontal surface, together with a mathematical model for the interfacial geometry based on two-phase flow averaging theory. In the same framework, a unifying correlation to describe the heat flux along the entire boiling curve is presented. The suggested correlation is based on the same physical quantities regardless of the boiling regime; it employs only a single fitting parameter in its most simple form. Alternative correlations are compared to the suggested correlation and their relative merit is assessed by statistical model discrimination techniques. The results suggest that transfer phenomena associated with the interfacial evolution, in particular the volumetric presence of interface close to the heater surface, together with the superheat, play an important role for the overall boiling heat transfer mechanism.     

Thermal distribution analysis of rectangular fin considering multiboiling heat transfer modes

In this investigation, a numerical method is used to compute the thermal distribution analysis of a rectangular fin with surface emissivity and internal heat generation. Here, the thermal conductivity, heat generation, emissivity at the surface, and coefficient of heat transfer depend on temperature linearly. The role of four distinct multiboiling heat transfer modes such as laminar film boiling (condensation), laminar convection, turbulent convection, and nucleate boiling are discussed in detail and the corresponding outcomes are displayed graphically. Isolated (insulated) and convective tip boundary conditions for the fin tip are employed in this study. The solution is obtained using shooting technique involving Runge Kutta Fehlberg method. It is emphasized that the thermal distribution shows a diminishing trend for the convective tip condition compared to the insulated tip. In addition to this, it is illustrated that laminar film boiling and laminar convection are two effective modes of heat transfer in comparison with turbulent convection and nucleate boiling for a finned surface in boiling liquids. The study on fin efficiency shows that fin efficiency increases with the increase in internal heat generation number.     

Numerical simulation of boiling enhancement on a microstructured surface

Significant efforts have been made to augment nucleate boiling by surface modification with micro-machined structures, but a general predictive approach for heat transfer enhancement has not yet been developed. In this work, complete numerical simulations are performed for boiling enhancement on a microstructured surface by employing the sharp-interface level-set method, which is modified to handle the contact angle and the evaporative heat flux from the liquid microlayer on an immersed solid surface. The effects of cavity diameter and surface modification such as concentric grooves and multi-step cavities on bubble growth and boiling heat transfer are investigated.     

Nucleate pool-boiling heat transfer. I: review of parametric effects of boiling surface

The objective of this paper is to assess the state-of-the-art of heat transfer in nucleate pool-boiling. Therefore, the paper consists of two parts: part I reviews and examines the effects of major boiling surface parameters affecting nucleate-boiling heat transfer, and part II reviews and examines the existing prediction methods to calculate the nucleate pool-boiling heat transfer coefficient (HTC).A literature review of the parametric trends points out that the major parameters affecting the HTC under nucleate pool-boiling conditions are heat flux, saturation pressure, and thermophysical properties of a working fluid. Therefore, these effects on the HTC under nucleate pool-boiling conditions have been the most investigated and are quite well established.On the other hand, the effects of surface characteristics such as thermophysical properties of the material, dimensions, thickness, surface finish, microstructure, etc., still cannot be quantified, and further investigations are needed. Particular attention has to be paid to the characteristics of boiling surfaces.     

Dry patch formed boiling and burnout in potassium pool boiling

Experimental results are presented on dry patch formed boiling and burnout in saturated potassium pool boiling on a horizontal plane heater for system pressures from 30 to 760 torr and liquid levels from 5 to 50 mm. The dry patch formed boiling is a peculiar boiling state where the dry patch formation and the rewetting are alternately repeated in intermittent boiling at a heat flux smaller than burnout heat flux of continuous nucleate boiling and is considered to be a local phenomenon in transient transition boiling from the observations of the wall and liquid temperature fluctuations. The dry patch formation occurs in the intermittent boiling which is often encountered when liquid alkali metals are used under relatively low pressure conditions. Burnout is caused from both continuous nucleate and dry patch formed boiling. The burnout heat flux together with nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficients are empirically correlated with system pressures. A model is also proposed to predict the minimum heat flux to form the dry patch.     

Experimental Study of Boiling Heat Transfer on Multiple and Single Nucleation Sites Using a Boiling-Meter

The general objective of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of heat transfer in a nucleate boiling regime. The aim is to determine the heat transfer characteristics under controlled operating conditions (thermodynamics of the fluid, noncondensable gas, surface state). Experimental investigations have been carried out in natural convection and nucleate boiling regimes. An experimental device was realized to perform boiling experiments using a boiling-meter, allowing investigations for different orientations of the wall. The boiling-meter is designed to investigate boiling for single and multiple nucleation sites. The purpose of this paper is to detail the experimental setup as well as the boiling-meter. This device allows the determination of the temporal heat transfer characteristics evolutions. In particular, this new device allows bringing to light the phenomenon of nucleation, growth, and detachment of generated vapor bubbles on a single artificial nucleate site, as well as for multiple natural nucleation sites. First results of the influence of the orientation of the heating wall for multiple and single nucleation sites on heat transfer are presented and analyzed.     

Evaporation of refrigerants in a horizontal tube: an improved flow pattern dependent heat transfer model compared to ammonia data

Few experimental test data are available for evaporation of ammonia inside tubes and numerous new data have been measured and presented here. An improved approach to the prediction of flow boiling heat transfer in horizontal tubes has been proposed through the study of each flow pattern separately, incorporating a new criterion defining the onset of nucleate boiling as a function of the critical convective heat transfer coefficient representative of the location where nucleate boiling might occur. A new function, based on a pseudo-Biot number delineates two different mean heat fluxes on the perimeter of the tube in stratified types of flow, one in contact with the liquid and one in contact with the vapor. Considering pure convective heat transfer, or mixed convective and nucleate heat transfer, this division allows the use of a common criterion to be applied to each flow pattern. Even if the database showed that the flow conditions in the annular liquid film were close to, or in the turbulent to laminar flow transition, and even if the major part of the experimental points where purposely obtained close to the various flow pattern transitions, the new model showed very good agreement with the experimental database of refrigerants HFC-134a and ammonia. Due to the precision of the new flow pattern map and the effectiveness of the onset on nucleate boiling criterion, this new heat transfer model accurately predicts the heat transfer conditions during evaporation.