| Abstract: | Experimental studies were made on heat transfer on a horizontal platinum wire during nucleate pool boiling in nonazeotropic refrigerant binary mixtures at pressures of 0.25 to 0.7 MPa and at heat fluxes up to CHF. The boiling features of the mixtures and the single-component substances were observed by photography. The relationship between the boiling behavior and the reduction of heat transfer coefficients in binary mixtures is discussed in order to propose a correlation useful for predicting the present experimental data over a wide range of low to high heat fluxes. It is shown that the correlation is applicable to alcoholic mixtures. The physical meaning of k, which was introduced to evaluate the effect of heat flux on the reduction of a heat transfer coefficient, is clarified based on measured nucleate pool boiling heat transfer data and visual observations of the boiling features. © 1998 Scripta Technica, Heat Trans Jpn Res, 27(7): 535–549, 1998 |
