紧凑型强化传热管管束受限空间内沸腾强化换热特性

采用满液式蒸发换热器，利用强化传热管管束受限空间内早期沸腾强化机理，将中小热负荷条件下的自然对流换热转化为核沸腾换热。其换热性能大大优于降膜式蒸发换热器。对紧凑型滚压表面传热管管束在受限空间内沸腾强化换热进行实验研究，确认了满液式蒸发换热器使用紧凑型滚压强化管束具有良好的换热性能，在小管间距时有显著的沸腾换热复合强化效应。     

紧凑满液型叉排管束蒸发换热器内水的沸腾强化换热特性

采用紧凑满液型蒸发换热器,利用水平传热管叉排管束狭窄空间内早期沸腾强化换热机理将中小热负 荷条件下的自然对流换热转化为旺盛核沸腾换热,换热性能大大优于传统的降膜式蒸发换热器。对水平传热管 管束在受限空间内沸腾强化换热进行实验研究,确认了紧凑满液式水平管蒸发换热器具有良好的换热性能,传 热管在管束中的位置对换热特性已经没有明显影响,随着压力增加,受限空间内沸腾强化换热强化效果显著增 加。     

Enhanced Boiling Heat Transfer of Water/Salt Mixtures in the Restricted Space of the Compact Tube Bundle

In desalinization devices and some heat exchangers making use of low-quality heat energy, both the wall temperature and the heat flux of the heated tubes are generally quite low, hence cannot cause boiling in flooded-type tube bundle evaporators with a large tube spacing. But when the tube spacing is quite small, incipient boiling can occur in the restricted space and results in higher heat transfer than that in a falling-film evaporator or during pool boiling at the same heat flux. This study experimentally investigates the effects of the tube spacing, the positions of tubes, and the salt-water concentration on bundle boiling heat transfer of salt water in the restricted space of the compact tube bundle evaporator under atmospheric pressure. The experimental results provide a restricted space boiling database for salt water in the compact tube bundle. Of particular importance is information concerning the influences of the tube spacing of the tube bundle and the concentration of salt water in desalination evaporators.     

低压条件下紧凑式顺排管束满液型蒸发换热器的强化换热特性研究

提出了一种新型紧凑式顺排光滑管束组成的满液式蒸发换热器。在低压条件下对水平光滑顺排管束的小空间内沸腾强化换热特性进行了实验研究,确认了管距、管位置和运行压力对强化换热性能的影响。实验表明存在一个能得到最大强化换热效果的最佳管距,这一最佳管距接近沸腾气泡的脱离直径。压力对强化换热效果也有重要影响:随着压力降低,强化换热效果也逐步减弱。实验结果对高效节能型蒸发换热器设计提供了设计基础。     

Enhanced boiling heat transfer in restricted spaces of a compact tube bundle with enhanced tubes

In flooded-type tube bundle evaporators with smooth tubes and general tube gaps, both wall superheat and heat flux are generally quite low and boiling cannot occur on the heated tubes. But when the tube gap is quite small or the enhanced heat transfer tubes are employed, the incipient boiling can occur at low heat flux levels and results in a significant heat transfer enhancement effect. This study investigates experimentally enhancement effects by the restricted space comprising the compact tube bundle and the enhanced tubes for boiling heat transfer of pure water and salt-water mixtures under atmospheric pressure. The experimental results show that the small tube gaps can greatly enhance boiling heat transfer for the compact enhanced tube bundle.     

满液型海水淡化蒸发器的换热特性研究

海水淡化装置，太阳能或余热吸收式制冷机中的蒸发换热器目前使用管排外降膜式蒸发方式。如将传热管束紧凑排列置于饱和状态液体中则变为满液式蒸发换热器，利用传热管束间受限空间内早期沸腾强化换热机理，将中小热负荷条件下的自然对流换热转化为核沸腾换热，在间隙尺寸适宜时，其换热性能可能优于降膜式蒸发换热器。该研究以盐水为实验工质，对紧凑传热管束受限空间的沸腾换热进行了实验研究，确认了满液式蒸发换热器也具有很好的换热性能，在中小热负荷条件下甚至超过降膜式蒸发换热器。     

紧凑传热管束受限空间内沸腾强化换热特性

海水淡化装置以及太阳能或余热吸收式制冷机中的蒸发换热器,采用管排外降膜式蒸发方式,它具有很多优点,但管间距离较大,以致尺寸较大,供液方式较复杂。将传热管束紧凑排列置于饱和状态液体中,将其变为满液式蒸发换热器,利用传热管束间受限空间内早期沸腾强化机理,将中小热负荷条件下的自然对流换热转化为核沸腾换热,在间隙尺寸适宜时,其换热性能可能优于降膜式蒸发换热器。对紧凑传热管束在受限空间内沸腾强化换热进行实验研究,确认了满液式蒸发换热器具有良好的换热性能,在中小热负荷条件下甚至超过降膜式蒸发换热器。     

Enhanced Boiling Heat Transfer of the Compact Staggered Tube Bundles under Sub-Atmospheric Pressures

An experimental investigation was carried out on the boiling heat transfer enhancement of water on plain tubes in compact staggered tube-bundle evaporators under atmospheric and sub-atmospheric pressures. The experiment investigated the effects of the tube spacing and positioning and the test pressure on the boiling heat transfer characteristics in restricted spaces of compact tube bundles. The experimental results indicated that for compact tube bundles, the effect of the tube spacing is very significant on the boiling heat transfer. The boiling heat transfer has a maximum enhancement when the tube spacing is so selected as to take an optimum value. The enhanced heat transfer efficiency for the compact bundles would gradually decrease as the test pressure was reduced.     

Enhanced Boiling Outside 8 × 3 Plain and Coated Tube Bundles

Experiments were conducted for pool boiling on the outside of 8 × 3 (eight rows and three columns) plain and coated tube (surface roughness = 8.279 μm) bundles for three different pitch distances with the distinct objective to study the behavior and the enhancement of boiling heat transfer in horizontal staggered tube bundles (of plain and coated tubes for different equilateral triangular arrangements) with heat flux values ranging from ～12 to 45 kW/m². At higher heat fluxes, coated and plain tube bundles had almost similar bundle average heat transfer coefficients at a given pitch distance, while at lower heat fluxes, the coated tube bundles have higher bundle average heat transfer coefficients as compared to that of the plain tube bundle. The coated tube bundles with the minimum pitch to diameter ratio of 1.4 exhibited the maximum bundle average heat transfer coefficients. The present study concludes that the bundle factor needs to be considered in the design of flooded evaporators.     

Experimental Determination of the Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficients of R-134a and R-417A on a Smooth Copper Tube

Flooded evaporators are widely used as compact cooling units to cool liquids. They consist of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger, with the fluid to cool flowing inside the tubes of the bundle and a refrigerant that evaporates over those tubes. Pool boiling on the external surface of the tubes is a very complex process, and therefore the boiling heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) should be determined experimentally. Copper and copper alloys tubes are commonly employed in such heat exchangers, due to their high thermal conductivity and relative low cost. On the other hand, refrigeration and air conditioning sectors are undergoing significant changes caused mainly by the necessity of replacing existing refrigerants with more environmentally friendly ones. This paper reports the experimental determination of the pool boiling HTCs of R-134a and R-417A blend on a smooth copper tube of 18.87 mm diameter, at two saturation temperatures of 10°C and 7°C. Although smooth tubes are not commonly used in shell-and-tube evaporators nowadays, it is a first approach to pool boiling of drop-in refrigerants. The experimental setup and data acquisition are described, the experimental procedure is explained, the data reduction methodology is detailed, and the results are presented and discussed.     

Enhancement of boiling heat transfer in a 5 × 3 tube bundle

The results of an experimental investigation on nucleate boiling heat transfer in an electrically heated 5 × 3 in-line horizontal tube bundle under pool and low cross-flow conditions of saturated water near atmospheric pressure are presented here. It is observed that the heat transfer coefficient is minimum on bottom row tubes and increases in the upward direction with maximum values on top row tubes. Also, heat transfer coefficient on central column tubes was found to be slightly higher than those on the corresponding side tubes. Further, a Chen-type relation has been used to determine the local boiling heat transfer coefficient on a tube in a heated tube bundle.     

表面微结构对流动沸腾中核沸腾抑制因子的影响

用两根内表面微结构不同的水平光滑管环状流区流动沸腾换热实验数据，采用叠加模型分别建立了流动沸腾换热关系式，并比较它们的抑制因子。结果表明，表面微结构对抑制因子有显的影响；当表面的平均凹腔半径较大时，抑制因子明显增大。表明表面微结构改变对流动沸腾换热能起到较好的强化作用。     

碳钢_水热虹隙管内部强化传热机理研究

在微层蒸发模型的理论基础上,对热虹吸管内部设置分流管结构强化沸腾传热者机理分析。建立分流管强化热哐吸管内部沸腾传热模型,同时选择七种不同的分流管开孔结构,与光滑管进行了对比实验研究,寻得最佳分流管结构,并综合大量实验数据建立强化沸腾传热准数方程式。     

强化传热管束狭窄空间内R_11的沸腾换热特性

对紧凑型滚压面传热管管束狭窄空间内R－11的沸腾强化换热进行了实验研究,确认了由紧凑型滚压强化管束组成的满液式蒸发换热器具有良好的换热性能。其原理是利用强化传热管管束狭窄空间提前从自然对流换热转换为旺盛核沸腾换热,实验结果确认了管束形成的狭窄空间和强化传热面两种强化技术对沸腾换热的强化效果不能简单叠加。     

CO2不同螺纹管管外强化换热的实验研究

通过对CO2的物理特性及水平光管与不同螺纹管管外沸腾换热进行实验研究,得出了换热系数随蒸发压力和热流密度的变化关系。拟合得出CO2在蒸发压力的范围为2.6~3.6MPa、热流密度为10~50 kW.m-2的换热关联式h=A.qn。与Cooper预测值的偏差在±15%之内,与Ribatski关联式预测值的偏差在±7%之内,与Ye实验关联式预测值的偏差在±9%之内。在CO2在光管管外沸腾换热的基础上进一步研究其在螺纹管管外沸腾对换热的强化效果,为CO2强化换热进一步发展提供依据,具有一定工程实践意义。     

Enhancing the heat transfer performance of triangular-pitch shell-and-tube evaporators using an interior spray technique

In spray type evaporators using a conventional overhead spray method, a dry-out phenomenon occurs on the lower surface of the evaporator tubes under high surface heat flux conditions, and thus the heat transfer performance of the evaporator system is seriously impaired. This study shows that in a compact triangular-pitch shell-and-tube evaporator, the dry-out problem can be delayed through the use of an interior spray method, in which each heater tube within the bundle is sprayed simultaneously by two nozzles. The experimental results reveal that the shell-side heat transfer coefficients obtained using the proposed spray technique are significantly higher than those achieved in a conventional flooded type evaporator. The results also show that the heat transfer performance improves as the saturation temperature decreases since the density and thermal conductivity of the sprayed liquid increase. Finally, it is shown that for a constant heat flux and saturation temperature, the heat transfer coefficient increases with an increasing refrigerant mass flow rate.     

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。     

Heat transfer augmentation in 3D internally finned and microfinned helical tube

Experiments are performed to investigate the single-phase flow and flow-boiling heat transfer augmentation in 3D internally finned and micro-finned helical tubes. The tests for single-phase flow heat transfer augmentation are carried out in helical tubes with a curvature of 0.0663 and a length of 1.15 m, and the examined range of the Reynolds number varies from 1000 to 8500. Within the applied range of Reynolds number, compared with the smooth helical tube, the average heat transfer augmentation ratio for the two finned tubes is 71% and 103%, but associated with a flow resistance increase of 90% and 140%, respectively. A higher fin height gives a higher heat transfer rate and a larger friction flow resistance. The tests for flow-boiling heat transfer are carried out in 3D internally micro-finned helical tube with a curvature of 0.0605 and a length of 0.668 m. Compared with that in the smooth helical tube, the boiling heat transfer coefficient in the 3D internally micro-finned helical tube is increased by 40-120% under varied mass flow rate and wall heat flux conditions, meanwhile, the flow resistance is increased by 18-119%, respectively.     

Numerical investigation for improved heat transfer characteristics in micro‐fin tubes

Generally, internal micro‐fin tubes are used for increasing the life and performance of electronic devices. The micro‐fins enhance the heat transfer rate by increasing the surface area with an increase of the pressure drop. In this study, heat transfer and pressure drop are analyzed by varying Reynolds number with the increase in the number of fins in tubes. Heat transfer and pressure drop, together with turbulence kinetic energy of micro‐fin tubes (helical and straight) and a smooth tube, have been evaluated for different Reynolds numbers (60 000, 40 000, 20 000, and 2000) at a constant temperature of 350 K, which clearly establishes laminar to turbulent flow. It is observed that the helical micro‐fin tube has a better result compared with the straight micro‐fin tube and smooth tube at Reynolds numbers 60 000, 40 000, and 20 000 at velocity 2, 1, and 0.5 m/s, respectively. This study is an attempt to establish a comparison of different micro‐fin geometries with varying Reynolds numbers, concluding that a high Reynolds number is suitable for the same.     

Heat transfer and flow characteristics of flow boiling of CO2‐oil mixtures in horizontal smooth and micro‐fin tubes

Experiments were carried out on the flow pattern, heat transfer, and pressure drop of flow boiling of pure CO₂ and CO₂‐oil mixtures in horizontal smooth and micro‐fin tubes. The smooth tube is a stainless steel tube with an inner diameter of 3.76 mm. The micro‐fin tube is a copper tube with a mean inner diameter of 3.75 mm. The experiments were carried out at mass velocities from 100 to 500 kg/(m²·s), saturation temperature of 10 °C, and the circulation ratio of lubricating oil (PAG) was from 0 to 1.0 mass%. Flow pattern observations mainly showed slug and wavy flow for the smooth tube, but annular flow for the micro‐fin tube. Compared with the flow patterns in the case of pure CO₂, an increase in frequency of slug occurrence in the slug flow region, and a decrease in the quantity of liquid at the top of the tube in the annular flow region were observed in the case of CO₂‐oil mixtures. With pure CO₂, the flow boiling heat transfer was dominated by nucleate boiling in the low vapor quality region, and the heat transfer coefficients for the micro‐fin tube were higher than those of the smooth tube. With CO₂‐oil mixtures, the flow boiling heat transfer was dominated by convective evaporation, especially in the high vapor quality region. In addition, the heat transfer coefficient decreased significantly when the oil circulation ratio was larger than 0.1 mass%. For the pressure drop characteristics, in the case of pure CO₂, the homogeneous flow model agreed with the experimental results within ±30% for the smooth tube. The pressure drops of the micro‐fin tube were 0–70% higher than those predicted with the homogeneous flow model, and the pressure drops increased for the high oil circulation ratio and high vapor quality conditions. The increases in the pressure drops were considered to be due to the increase in the thickness of the oil film and the decrease in the effective flow cross‐sectional area. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/htj.20287