Convective Boiling of R-22 in a Flat Aluminum Multi-Minichannel Tube With Dh = 1.4 mm

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.

Author(s):  
Nae-Hyun Kim ◽  
Young-Sup Sim ◽  
Chang-Keun Min

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 200 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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Ahmed Jasim Hamad ◽  
Rasha Abdulrazzak Jasim

An experimental investigation of refrigerant R-134a two-phase flow condensation heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop in condenser tube section of refrigeration system under different operating conditions is presented. The experimental and theoretical investigations are based on test conditions in range of 10 -17 kW/m2 for heat flux, 42-63 kg/m2s for mass flux, vapor quality 1-0.03 and saturation temperature 44 to 49˚C. The experimental tests are conducted on test rig supplied with a test section to simulate the water cooled double pipe heat exchanger, which is designed and constructed in the present work. “The experimental results have revealed that, the heat flux and mass flux have significant impacts on the heat transfer coefficient. “The heat transfer coefficient was increased with increase in heat flux and mass flux at prescribed test conditions, where the enhancement in heat transfer coefficient was about 47% and 14% for relatively higher heat flux and mass flux, respectively. “The enhancement in the heat transfer coefficient was about 51% for relatively lower saturation temperature 45.97˚C and 43% for higher vapor quality 0.88 compared to other values at constant test conditions. “The pressure drop was higher in the range of 12% and 49% for relatively higher mass flux and heat flux respectively. “The present work results have validated by comparison with predictive models and with similar research work results and the comparison has revealed  an acceptable agreement.


2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiyu Tang ◽  
Wei Li

Abstract An experimental investigation into heat transfer characteristics during condensation on two horizontal enhanced tubes (EHTs) was conducted. All the tested EHTs s have similar geometries with an outer diameter of 12.7 mm, and a plain tube was also tested for comparison. Investigated enhanced surfaces consist of dimples, protrusions, and grooves, which may produce more flow turbulence and enhanced the liquid drainage effect. The effects of mass fluxes and vapor quality were compared and analyzed. Test conditions were as follows: saturation temperature fixed at 45 °C, mass flux varying from 100 to 200 kg m−2 s−1, and vapor quality ranging from 0.3 to 0.8. The heat transfer coefficient was presented, and the results show that the proposed enhanced surfaces seem to have worse performance than the conventional tubes when the mass flux is less than 150 kg m−2 s−1, while one of the enhanced tubes (2EHT-1) produce an enhanced ratio of 1.03–1.14 when G = 200 kg m−2 s−1. Besides, it was found that the heat transfer coefficient increases with increasing vapor quality, which can be attributed to the increasing diffusion resistance. Mass flux seems to have little effect on the heat transfer performance of smooth tubes, while that of 1EHT increases obviously with increasing mass flux, especially for high vapor qualities.


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):  
M. Hamayun Maqbool ◽  
Bjo¨rn Palm ◽  
R. Khodabandeh ◽  
Rashid Ali

Experiments have been performed to investigate heat transfer in a circular vertical mini channel made of stainless steel (AISI 316) with internal diameter of 1.70 mm and a uniformly heated length of 245 mm using ammonia as working fluid. The experiments are conducted for a heat flux range of 15 to 350 kW/m2 and mass flux range of 100 to 500 kg/m2s. The effects of heat flux, mass flux and vapour quality on the heat transfer coefficient are explored in detail. The experimental results show that the heat transfer coefficient increases with imposed wall heat flux while mass flux and vapour quality have no considerable effect. Experimental results are compared to predictive methods available in the literature for boiling heat transfer. The correlations of Cooper et al. [1] and Shah [3] are in good agreement with our experimental data.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (06) ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Mohammed Ghazi M. Kamil ◽  
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Muna Sabah Kassim ◽  
Louay Abd Alazez Mahdi ◽  
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...  

The heat transfer coefficient of steam condensation has a significant role in the performance of air-cooled heat exchangers. The purpose of this work is to predict the local/average local steam condensation heat transfer coefficient inside the horizontal flattened tube under vacuum conditions using numerous correlations that were developed by some researches which have been conducted under specified conditions. The results from these correlations have been compared with experimental data of Davies, therefore more investigate for the values are necessary to improve or/and validate the existing correlations. The effect of such parameters like the uniform heat flux and saturation temperature also have been studied on the local steam condensation heat transfer coefficient as the results show that the heat transfer coefficient decrease as the heat flux increase, while it increases as the steam saturated temperature increase.


1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 485-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Ravigururajan

Microchannel surfaces, often machined to 20 to 1000 μm in width and depth, are employed in high-heat-flux applications. However, a large number of variables, control the two-phase flow heat transfer coefficient. The pressure, the surface heat flux, and the mass flux significantly affect the thermal transport. Experiments were conducted on a setup that was built for testing microchannel heat exchanges. The parameters considered in the study are power input: 20 to 300 W, volume flow rate: 35 to 300 ml/min, quality: 0 to 0.5, inlet subcooling: 5 to 15°C. The results indicate that the heat transfer coefficient and pressure drop are functions of the flow quality, the mass flux, and, of course, the heat flux and the related surface superheat. The heat transfer coefficient decreases from a value of 12,000 W/m2-K to 9000, W/m2-K at 80°C, when the wall superheat is increased from 10 to 80°C. The coefficient decreases by 30 percent when the exit vapor quality is increased from 0.01 to 0.65.


Author(s):  
Rashid Ali ◽  
Bjo¨rn Palm ◽  
Mohammad H. Maqbool

In this paper the experimental flow boiling heat transfer results of a minichannel are presented. A series of experiments was conducted to measure the heat transfer coefficients in a minichannel made of stainless steel (AISI 316) having an internal diameter of 1.7mm and a uniformly heated length of 220mm. R134a was used as working fluid and experiments were performed at two different system pressures corresponding to saturation temperatures of 27 °C and 32 °C. Mass flux was varied from 50 kg/m2 s to 600 kg/m2 s and heat flux ranged from 2kW/m2 to 156kW/m2. The test section was heated directly using a DC power supply. The direct heating of the channel ensured uniform heating and heating was continued until dry out was reached. The experimental results show that the heat transfer coefficient increases with imposed wall heat flux while mass flux and vapour quality have no considerable effect. Increasing the system pressure slightly enhances the heat transfer coefficient. The heat transfer coefficient is reduced as dryout is reached. It is observed that dryout phenomenon is accompanied with fluctuations and a larger standard deviation in outer wall temperatures.


2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashid Ali ◽  
Björn Palm ◽  
Mohammad H. Maqbool

In this paper, the experimental flow boiling heat transfer results of a minichannel are presented. A series of experiments was conducted to measure the heat transfer coefficients in a minichannel made of stainless steel (AISI 316) having an internal diameter of 1.70 mm and a uniformly heated length of 220 mm. R134a was used as a working fluid, and experiments were performed at two different system pressures corresponding to saturation temperatures of 27°C and 32°C. Mass flux was varied from 50 kg/m2 s to 600 kg/m2 s, and heat flux ranged from 2 kW/m2 to 156 kW/m2. The test section was heated directly using a dc power supply. The direct heating of the channel ensured uniform heating, which was continued until dryout was reached. The experimental results show that the heat transfer coefficient increases with imposed wall heat flux, while mass flux and vapor quality have no considerable effect. Increasing the system pressure slightly enhances the heat transfer coefficient. The heat transfer coefficient is reduced as dryout is reached. It is observed that the dryout phenomenon is accompanied with fluctuations and a larger standard deviation in outer wall temperatures.


2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Bryan ◽  
J. Seyed-Yagoobi

The influence of quality, flow regime, heat flux, and mass flux on the electrohydrodynamic (EHD) enhancement of convective boiling of R-134a in a horizontal smooth tube was investigated in detail. The EHD forces generated significant enhancements in the heat transfer coefficient, but the enhancements were highly dependent on the quality, flow regime, heat flux, and mass flux. The experimental data provided evidence that an optimum EHD enhancement exists for a given set of these variables with a specific electrode design. However, experimental data also provided evidence that the EHD forces can drastically reduce the rate of heat transfer at certain conditions


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