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.     

Nucleate and film boiling on a microheater under pulse heating in a microchannel

Using MEMS technology, a Pt microheater (60 × 100 µm²) fabricated on a glass wafer is placed in a silicon-based microchannel of trapezoidal cross section. With the aid of a high-speed CCD and based on Pt's linear temperature-resistance characteristic, flow boiling phenomena and temperature response on the surface of the microheater in the microchannel under pulse heating are observed and recorded. At a given mass flux, nucleate boiling and film boiling begin to appear on the microheater with increasing heat flux. A flow boiling map, showing the effects of heat and mass flux on nucleate and film boiling regimes on the microheater at a pulse heating width of 2 ms, is presented. It is found that nucleate boiling is changed to film boiling as the heat flux supplied to the microheater is increased. Furthermore, increasing mass flux increases the heat flux required for the incipience of nucleate boiling and film boiling on the microheater in the microchannel.     

Pool boiling heat transfer on the tube surface in an inclined annulus

An experimental study was carried out to investigate the pool boiling heat transfer in an inclined annular tube submerged in a pool of saturated water at atmospheric pressure. The outer diameter and the length of the heated inner tube were 25.4 mm and 500 mm, respectively. The gap size of the annulus was 15 mm. For the tests, annuli with both open and closed bottoms were considered. The inclination angle was varied from the horizontal position to the vertical position. At a given heat flux, the heat transfer coefficient was increased with the inclination angle increase. Effects of the inclination angle on heat transfer were more clearly observed in the annulus with open bottoms. The main cause for the tendencies was considered as the difference in the intensity of liquid agitation and bubble coalescence due to the enclosure by the outer tube. One of the important factors in the annulus with open bottom was the convective fluid flow.     

Effects of surfactant additive on flow boiling over a microheater under pulse heating

An experimental investigation has been carried out to study effects of surfactant additive on microscale boiling under pulse heating over a Pt microheater (140 × 100 μm²) fabricated in a trapezoidal microchannel (600 μm in width and 150 μm in depth). Experiments are carried out for six different surfactant concentrations of Triton X-100 ranging from 47 ppm to 2103 ppm, for mass flux in the range from 45 kg/m² s to 225 kg/m² s, pulse width in the range from 50 μs to 2 ms, and heat flux in the range from 3 MW/m² to 65 MW/m². As in existing work on pool boiling under steady heating, it is found that nucleate boiling becomes more vigorous and heat transfer is enhanced greatly with the addition of surfactant with maximum boiling heat transfer occurs at the critical micelle concentration (cmc). Furthermore, these maximum values of boiling heat transfer coefficient increase with decreasing pulse width. When concentration is below cmc, the heat flux needed for nucleation increases with increasing concentration and the nucleation temperature is reduced. When concentration is higher than cmc, the boiling heat transfer coefficient decreases and nucleation temperature is higher than that of pure water.     

Pool boiling heat transfer to electrolyte solutions

Pool boiling heat transfer coefficients were measured for solutions of salts with positive solubility in water. The effect of the dissolved salts on nucleation site density, bubble departure diameter and bubble frequency was also investigated. The results show that at low heat fluxes heat transfer coefficients can be considerably lower than corresponding values for distilled water. At high heat fluxes the negative effect of the dissolved electrolyte gradually decreased and finally some improvement in heat transfer coefficient was observed. A correlation was developed for nucleate boiling of aqueous solutions from salts with positive solubility. Assuming that the mass transfer resistance is limited to the liquid side, the proposed model allows the prediction of heat transfer coefficients from boiling point data of the respective solutions. Comparison with a significant number of experimental data for different systems indicates that the model should be sufficiently accurate for most practical applications.     

Pool boiling heat transfer of non-Newtonian nanofluids

This paper reports on the investigation of pool boiling heat transfer of γ-Al₂O₃/CMC non-Newtonian nanofluids. To prepare nanofluids, γ-Al₂O₃ nanoparticles were dispersed in CMC solution (carboxy methyl cellulose in water) using ultrasonic mixing and mechanical mixer. Different concentrations of CMC non-Newtonian fluids and γ-Al₂O₃/CMC non-Newtonian nanofluids were tested under nucleate pool boiling heat transfer conditions. Experiments were carried out at atmospheric pressure. Results show that the pool boiling heat transfer coefficient of CMC solutions is lower than water. The decrease in boiling heat transfer is more pronounced at higher CMC concentrations and, as a result, higher solution viscosity. Adding nanoparticles to CMC non-Newtonian solutions results in an improved boiling heat transfer performance. The enhancement in the boiling heat transfer coefficient increases with the nanoparticle concentration; at a concentration of 1.4 wt.%, the boiling heat transfer coefficient increases by about 25% when compared to the base fluid.     

Pool boiling heat transfer on open-celled metallic foam sintered surface under saturation condition

The current study investigated the saturated pool boiling heat transfer of deionized water with added surfactant on a horizontal metallic foam surface with V-shape grooves under atmospheric pressure. The influences of the groove configurations, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) concentration, foam thickness, and thermal conductivity of foam material on heat transfer performance and bubble growth patterns were studied. SDS with concentrations of 100, 400, and 800 ppm was used as the surfactant. The foam porosity was fixed at 0.95. V-shape grooves with various widths and groove number were manufactured in the foam samples, with three pore densities of 20, 100, and 130 PPI. Results showed that the effects of the groove configuration, SDS concentration, and thickness on boiling heat transfer are heavily dependent on foam pore density. The counter-flow between the released bubbles and sucked liquid plays a significant role in heat transfer performance. The existence of sufficient grooves delays the critical heat flux (CHF), whereas SDS can achieve CHF earlier.     

Pool boiling heat transfer in vertical annular crevices

Effects of vertical annuli on nucleate pool boiling heat transfer of water at atmospheric pressure have been obtained experimentally. Experiments were performed for annuli with a height of 570 mm and gap sizes of 3.9 and 15 mm. Through the tests, tube bottom confinement (open or closed) has been investigated, too, and the whole results are compared with a single unconfined tube. According to the results, the annular condition gives much increase in heat transfer coefficients at moderate heat fluxes. Its effect is observed much greater for the bottom-closed tube condition.     

Pool boiling heat transfer of water and nanofluid outside the surface with higher roughness and different wettability

In order to investigate the effect of surface wettability on the pool boiling heat transfer, nucleate pool boiling experiments were conducted with deionized water and silica based nanofluid. A higher surface roughness value in the range of 3.9 ~ 6.0μm was tested. The contact angle was from 4.7° to 153°, and heat flux was from 30kW/m² to 300kW/m². Experimental results showed that hydrophilicity diminish the boiling heat transfer of silica nanofluid on the surfaces with higher roughness. As the increment of nanofluid mass concentration from 0.025% to 0.1%, a further reduction of heat transfer coefficient was observed. For the super hydrophobic surface with higher roughness (contact angle 153.0°), boiling heat transfer was enhanced at heat flux less than 93 kW/m², and then the heat transfer degraded at higher heat flux.     

Pool boiling heat transfer experiments in silica-water nano-fluids

Heat transfer measurements taken at atmospheric pressure in silica nano-solutions are compared to similar measurements taken in pure water and silica micro-solutions. The data include heat flux vs. superheat of a 0.4 mm diameter NiCr wire submerged in each solution. The data show a marked increase in critical heat flux (CHF) for both nano- and micro-solutions compared to water, but no appreciable differences in heat transfer for powers less than CHF. The data also show that stable film boiling at temperatures close to the wire melting point are achievable with the nano-solutions but not with the micro-solutions.     

Effect of pulse heating parameters on the microscale bubble dynamics at a microheater surface

We study the effects of pulse heating parameters on the micro bubble behavior of a platinum microheater (100 μm×20 μm) immersed in a methanol pool. The experiment covers the heat fluxes of 10–37 MW/m² and pulse frequencies of 25–500 Hz. The boiling incipience is initiated at the superheat limit of methanol, corresponding to the homogeneous nucleation. Three types of micro boiling patterns are identified. The first type is named as the bubble explosion and regrowth, consisting of a violent explosive boiling and shrinking, followed by a slower bubble regrowth and subsequent shrinking, occurring at lower heat fluxes. The second type, named as the bubble breakup and attraction, consists of the violent explosive boiling, bubble breakup and emission, bubble attraction and coalescence process, occurring at higher heat fluxes than those of the first type. The third type, named as the bubble size oscillation and large bubble formation, involves the initial explosive boiling, followed by a short periodic bubble growth and shrinking. Then the bubble continues to increase its size, until a constant bubble size is reached which is larger than the microheater length.     

Analysis of pool boiling heat transfer: effect of bubbles sliding on the heating surface

Pool boiling on surfaces where sliding bubble mechanism plays an important role has been studied. The heat transfer phenomenon for such cases has been analysed. The model considers different mechanisms such as latent heat transfer due to microlayer evaporation, transient conduction due to thermal boundary layer reformation, natural convection and heat transfer due to the sliding bubbles. Both microlayer evaporation and transient conduction take place during the sliding of bubbles, which occurs in geometries such as inclined surfaces and horizontal tubes. The model has been validated against experimental results from literature for water, refrigerant R134a and propane. The model was found to agree well for these fluids over a wide range of pressures. The model shows the importance of the contributions of the different mechanisms for different fluids, wall superheats and pressures.     

Pool boiling heat transfer on copper foam covers with water as working fluid

Pool boiling heat transfer with porous media as the enhanced structure is attractive due to its simple geometry and easy operation. However, the available studies focus on low porous porosities. Metallic foams provide large porous porosities that have been less studied in the literature. In this paper a set of copper foam pieces were welded on the plain copper surface to form the copper foam covers for the pool boiling heat transfer enhancement. Water was used as the working fluid. Enhancement of pool boiling heat transfer compared with plain surface depends on the increased bubble nucleation sites, extended heat transfer area, and resistance for vapor release to the pool liquid. Effects of pores per inch (ppi) of foam covers, foam cover thickness, and pool liquid temperatures are examined. It is found that temperatures at the Onset of Nucleate Boiling (ONB) are significantly decreased on copper foam covers compared with on plain surfaces. Heat transfer coefficients of foam covers are two to three times of the plain surface. A large ppi value provides large bubble nucleation sites and heat transfer area to enhance heat transfer, but generates large vapor release resistance to deteriorate heat transfer. Therefore an optimal ppi value exists, which is 60 ppi in this paper. Generally small ppi value needs large foam cover thickness, and large ppi value needs small foam cover thickness, to maximally enhance heat transfer. Effect of pool liquid temperature on the heat transfer enhancement depends on the ppi value. For small ppi value such as 30 ppi, lower pool liquid temperature can dissipate higher heat flux at the same wall superheat. However, the heat transfer performance is insensitive to the pool liquid temperatures when large ppi values such as 90 ppi are used.     

多孔表面新型复杂结构优化沸腾传热的实验研究

报道了R11在烧结多孔表面开槽时沸腾传热的实验研究，实验发现，与普通槽道和双空隙层多孔表面相比，沸腾换热增强，沸腾表现为液体灌注、槽道起泡、底部蒸干三个区，对特定的多孔层，开槽可获得更好的换热效果。带槽道的多孔表面实验件与均匀多孔表面相比，在相同壁面过热度（θ）条件下，热流密度（q）提高2－10倍，临界热流密度提高2－4倍。     

Liquid Jet Impingement Heat Transfer with or without Boiling

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the important studies in the area of impingement heat transfer with or without phase change, with emphasis on the research conducted at Beijing Polytechnic University mainly with circular jets. Heat transfer characteristics of single phase jets are discussed in detail. Comment is presented on boiling heat transfer of impinging jets for steady and transient states. Some special colling configurations of two-phase jets are also introduced.     

Behavioral study of alumina nanoparticles in pool boiling heat transfer on a vertical surface

Experiments were carried out to investigate the pool boiling of alumina‐water nanofluid at 0.1 g/l to 0.5 g/l of distilled water, and the nucleate pool boiling heat transfer of pure water and nanofluid at different mass concentrations were compared at and above the atmospheric pressure. At atmospheric pressure, different concentrations of nanofluids display different degrees of deterioration in boiling heat transfer. The effect of pressure and concentration of nanoparticles revealed significant enhancement in heat flux and deterioration in pool boiling. The heat transfer coefficient of 0.5 g/l alumina‐water nanofluid was compared with pure water and clearly indicates deterioration. At all pressures the heat transfer coefficients of the nanofluid were lower than those of pure water. Experimental observation revealed particles coating over the heater surface and subsequent SEM inspection of the heater surface showed nanoparticles coating on the surface forming a porous layer. To substantiate the nanoparticle deposition and its effect on heat flux, investigation was done by measuring the surface roughness of the heater surface before and after the experiment. While SEM images of the heater surface revealed nanoparticle deposition, surface roughness of the heater surface confirmed it. Based on the experimental investigations it can be concluded that an optimum thickness of nanoparticles coating favors an increase in heat flux. Higher surface temperature due to the presence of nanoparticles coating results in the deterioration of boiling heat transfer. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Heat Trans Asian Res; Published online in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/htj ). DOI 10.1002/htj.20365     

Pool boiling heat transfer of functionalized nanofluid under sub-atmospheric pressures

A water-based functionalized nanofluid was made by surface functionalizing the ordinary silica nanoparticles. The functionalized nanoparticles were water-soluble and could still keep dispersing well even at the mass concentration of 10% and no sedimentation was observed. An experimental study was carried out to investigate the pool boiling heat transfer characteristics of functionalized nanofluid at atmospheric and sub-atmospheric pressures. The same work was also performed for DI water and traditional nanofluid consisted of water and ordinary silica nanoparticles for the comparison. Experimental results show that there exist great differences between pool boiling heat transfer characteristics of functionalized and traditional nanofluid. The differences mainly result from the changes of surface characteristics of the heated surface during the boiling. A porous deposition layer exists on the heated surface during the boiling of traditional nanofluid; however, no layer exists for functionalized nanofluid. Functionalized nanofluid can slightly increase the heat transfer coefficient comparing with the water case, but has nearly no effects on the critical heat flux. It is mainly due to the changes of the thermoproperties of nanofluids. Traditional nanofluid can significantly enhance the critical heat flux, but conversely deteriorates the heat transfer coefficient. It is mainly due to effect of surface characteristics of the heated surface during the boiling. Therefore, the pool boiling heat transfer of nanofluids is governed by both the thermoproperties of nanofluids and the surface characteristics of the heated surface.     

Pool boiling heat transfer on small heaters: effect of gravity and subcooling

Measurements of space and time resolved subcooled pool boiling of FC-72 in low, earth, and high gravity environments were made using a microscale heater array. Data from each heater in the array were synchronized with high-speed digital video. The boiling behavior was dominated by the formation of a large primary bubble on the surface which acted as a “sink” for many smaller bubbles surrounding it. Dryout of the heater occurred under the primary bubble. For a given superheat, this primary bubble was observed to increase in size with bulk fluid temperature. Boiling curves at various subcoolings and gravity levels are presented.     

Numerical and experimental investigation of heat transfer on heating surface during subcooled boiling flow of liquid nitrogen

Closure correlations describing bubble nucleation and departure on the heating surface is indispensable when modeling subcooled boiling flow using a two-fluid model. Due to the small contact angle and surface tension, nucleation and departure of nitrogen vapor bubble has different characteristics to those of high-boiling liquids. For the purpose of accurate two-fluid model formulation, these factors have to be taken into consideration. In this study, some closure correlations of the bubble departure diameter, active site density and bubble waiting time were tested in the frame of the two-fluid model and the CFX code. Benchmark experiments were then performed to evaluate the correlations. Comparison of the numerical results against the experimental data demonstrates that the surface tension is crucial to modeling the bubble departure diameter and the active site density. The bubble waiting time correlation formulated according to bubble growth is expected to be used as a criterion of judging the transition from subcooled to saturated boiling.