Download or read book Pool Boiling Enhancement Through Improved Liquid Supply Pathways Over Open Microchannels written by Arvind Jaikumar and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Boiling is an efficacious mode of heat transfer and is utilized in various energy conversions, heat exchange systems and in cooling of high energy density electronic components. Fundamental pool boiling mechanisms suggest that liquid rewetting on a heated surface is a key factor in delaying critical heat flux (CHF) for enhancing pool boiling performance. In this study, pool boiling enhancement is achieved by providing improved liquid supply pathways to nucleation sites in open microchannels. A two part study is conducted to enhance pool boiling performance of open microchannels. Micromachined and porous surfaces are identified as enhancement techniques in Part-I and Part-II respectively. The results obtained in part-I showed significant improvement in the pool boiling performance when tested with water and FC-87. In part-II of the study, porous coatings are deposited on the boiling surface of an open parallel microchannel fin tops, channel bottoms and both, and individually investigated for their pool boiling performance. The best performing surface was with porous coatings throughout the geometry and had a CHF of 313 W/cm2 at a wall superheat of 7.5 °C. High speed images for the three surfaces show that bubble nucleation occurred at the location of porous deposits. Furthermore, additional nucleation sites are identified as the main contributing factor in the best performing surface which had an enhancement of 150% in CHF when compared to a plain surface. Efficient liquid recirculation provided by open microchannels also contributed to improved microconvection in the channels."--Abstract.

Download or read book Enhanced Pool Boiling of Water with Open Microchannels Over Cylindrical Tubes written by Jeet S. Mehta and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pool boiling is a stable and efficient method for transferring large quantities of heat. It is employed in a wide range of applications, including steam generation in boilers, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, cryogenic and many other industrial processes. The objective of this work was to investigate the augmentation in the boiling heat transfer rates with an array of open microchannels over a cylindrical tube. In order to develop high performance surfaces, rectangular and V-groove cross-sectional geometry microchannels were fabricated and tested over tubular test sections. These microchannels were manufactured in two configurations: circumferentially around the test section and axially along the length. The effects of the microchannel geometric parameters on pool boiling performance were studied under horizontal and vertical orientations. Twenty uniquely modified microchannel surfaces were designed, fabricated and tested. The best performance was obtained with a circumferential rectangular microchannel test section in the horizontal orientation. A maximum heat transfer coefficient of 129 kW/m2*K was achieved at a heat flux of 1095 kW/m2, while maintaining a wall superheat of 8.5 K. The overall enhancement factors obtained at the maximum heat flux condition, ranged between 1.9 and 3.4 in the horizontal orientation, and 2.1 and 3.1 in the vertical orientation. The critical heat flux for almost all the designed test surfaces was increased by a factor of at least 1.6 over a plain tube. Area normalized results indicated that factors other than area enhancement are responsible for augmenting the heat transfer performance. High-speed videography of bubbles nucleating, growing and departing from the heated surface was performed. The bubble behavior over these open microchannels was analyzed to understand the fundamental mechanism during pool boiling. The bubble interactions in and over the open microchannels, and the liquid rewetting phenomenon greatly influence the heat transfer performance for these surface."--Abstract.

Download or read book Additive Manufactured Microstructures and Designs for High Heat Flux Dissipation During Pool Boiling written by Austin Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Heat dissipation is vital in industries requiring predictable operating temperatures while also producing large heat fluxes. These industries include electronics and power generation. For electronics, as more devices fit on a smaller area, the heat flux increases dramatically. Pool boiling offers a solution to electronic cooling due to extremely high heat transfer with a low temperature change. Previous research has focused on coatings and precision manufacturing to create microchannels and features for boiling augmentation. However, this is limited to designs for subtractive processes. The use of additive manufacturing (AM) offers a novel way of thinking of design for boiling enhancement. 3-D boiling structures are fabricated out of aluminum using the Vader System's magnetojet printer. Three generations of geometric structures are created: a volcano-with-holes, a miniaturized volcano-with-holes, and a modular volcano-with-holes. These designs are not easily manufactured using standard techniques. As such, three-dimensional bubble dynamics are currently being explored using high speed imaging and particle image velocimetry. By printing a volcano shape with base holes, the liquid and vapor phases are physically separated in a process termed macroscale liquid-vapor pathways. The singular volcano-with-holes chips achieved a maximum heat flux of 217.3 W/cm2 with a maximum heat transfer coefficient (HTC) of 97.2 kW/m2K (81% improvement over plain). By producing four volcanoes on a single chip, the liquid flow length inside the volcano, which acts as the entrance length, is reduced by 50% and the HTC greatly increased. The highest performing miniaturized volcano-with-holes chip reached a maximum heat flux of 223.1W/cm2 with a maximum HTC of 139.1 kW/m2K (150% improvement over plain). Additionally, the highest performing miniaturized chip was printed on top of a microchannel array. This resulted in combined enhancement from both microchannel and bubble dynamics resulting in a maximum heat flux of 228.4 W/cm2 with a HTC of 339.6 kW/m2K (533% improvement over plain). Finally, a modular structure was created to determine the individual influence of conduction and bubble dynamic augmentation on boiling enhancement. The modular designs show an 83% improvement in CHF (202.4 W/cm2) over plain copper chips and a 83% improvement in HTC(139.0 kW/m2K). This indicates boiling enhancement arises from three-dimensional control over bubble dynamics, resulting in macroscale separate liquid-vapor pathways."--Abstract.

Download or read book Enhancement of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Using a Combination of Open Microchannels and Microporous Surfaces written by Chinmay Patil and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Multiscale Mechanistic Approach to Enhance Pool Boiling Performance for High Heat Flux Applications written by Arvind Jaikumar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The advent of cloud computing and the complex packaging architecture of next generation electronic devices drives methods for advanced thermal management solutions. Convection based single-phase cooling systems are inefficient due to their large pressure drops, fluid temperature differences and costs, and are incapable of meeting the cooling requirements in the high power density components and systems. Alternatively, phase-change cooling techniques are attractive due to their ability to remove large amounts of heat while maintaining uniform fluid temperatures. Pool boiling heat transfer mechanism centers on the nucleation, growth and departure of a bubble from the heat transfer surface in a stagnant pool of liquid. The pool boiling performance is quantified by the Critical Heat Flux (CHF) and Heat Transfer Coefficients (HTC) which dictate the operating ranges and efficiency of the heat transfer process. In this work, three novel geometries are introduced to modify the nucleation characteristics, liquid pathways and contact line motion on the prime heater surface for a simultaneous increase in CHF and HTC. First, sintered microchannels and nucleating region with feeder channels (NRFC) were developed through the mechanistic concept of separate liquid-vapor pathways and enhanced macroconvection heat transfer. A maximum CHF of 420 W/cm2 at a wall superheat of 1.7 °C with a HTC of 2900 MW/m2°C was achieved with the sintered-channels configuration, while the NRFC reached a CHF of 394 W/cm2 with a HTC of 713 kW/m2°C. Second, the scale effect of liquid wettability, roughness and microlayer evaporation was exploited to facilitate capillary wicking in graphene through interlaced porous copper particles. A CHF of 220 W/cm2 with a HTC of 155 kW/m2°C was achieved using an electrodeposition coating technique. Third, the chemical heterogeneity on nanoscale coatings was shown to increase the contribution from transient conduction mechanisms. A maximum CHF of 226 W/cm2 with a HTC of 107 kW/m2°C was achieved. The enhancement techniques developed here provide a mechanistic tool at the microscale and nanoscale to increase the boiling CHF and HTC."--Abstract.

Download or read book Experimental Investigation of Pool Boiling Performance with Ethanol and FC 87 on Open Microchannel Surfaces written by Ankit Kalani and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The growing trend in miniaturization of electronics has generated a need for efficient thermal management of these devices. Boiling has the ability to dissipate large quantity of heat while maintaining a small temperature difference. Vapor chamber with pool boiling offers an effective way to provide cooling and maintaining temperature uniformity. The objective of the current work is to investigate pool boiling performance of ethanol and FC-87 on microchannel surfaces. Ethanol is an attractive working fluid due to its better heat transfer performance and higher heat of vaporization compared to refrigerants, and lower boiling point compared to water. The saturation temperature of ethanol can be further reduced to temperatures suitable for electronics cooling by lowering the system pressure. Fluorocarbons are considered to be ideal fluids for electronics cooling due to their low normal boiling point, dielectric and inert nature. FC-87 is selected for the current work. Ethanol is tested at four different absolute pressures, 101.3 kPa, 66.7 kPa, 33.3 kPa and 16.7 kPa using different microchannel surface configurations. Heat dissipation in excess of 900 kW/m2 was obtained while maintaining the wall surface below 85°C at 33 kPa. Flammability, toxicity and temperature overshoot issues need to be addressed before practical implementation of ethanol-based cooling systems in electronics cooling application. FC-87 with microchannel yields average performance when compared to literature. Effect of surface area is identified as the key reason for performance enhancement. A new finned structure is developed, which gave a heat flux value 1.25 MW/m2 at 40°C wall superheat for FC-87 at atmospheric conditions."--Abstract.

Download or read book Pool Boiling from Enhanced Structures Under Confinement written by Camil-Daniel Ghiu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of pool boiling of a dielectric liquid (PF 5060) from single-layered enhanced structures was conducted. The parameters investigated were the heat flux, the width of the microchannels and the microchannel pitch. The boiling performance of the enhanced structures increases with increase in channel width and decrease in channel pitch. Simple single line curve fits are provided as a practical way of predicting the data over the entire nucleate boiling regime. The influence of confinement on the thermal performance of the enhanced structures was also assessed. The main parameter investigated was the top space (0 mm 3{13 mm). High-speed visualization was used as a tool . For the total confinement (= 0 mm), the heat transfer performance of the enhanced structures was found to depend weakly on the channel width. For>0 mm, the enhancement observed for plain surfaces in the low heat fluxes regime is not present for the present enhanced structure. The maximum heat flux for a prescribed 85 °C surface temperature limit increased with the increase of the top spacing, similar to the plain surfaces case. Two characteristic regimes of pool boiling have been identified and described: isolated flattened bubbles regime and coalesced bubbles regime. A semi-analytical predictive model applicable to pool boiling under confinement is developed. The model requires a limited number of empirical constants and is capable of predicting the experimental heat flux within 30%.

Download or read book High pressure Pool boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement and Mechanism on Engineered Surfaces written by Smreeti Dahariya and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boiling has received considerable attention in the technology advancement of electronics cooling for high-performance computing applications. Two-phase cooling has an advantage over a single-phase cooling in the high heat removal rate with a small thermal gradient due to the latent heat of vaporization. Many surface modifications have been done in the past including surface roughness, mixed wettability and, porous wick copper play a crucial role in the liquid-vapor phase change heat transfer. However, the mechanisms of high-pressure pool-boiling heat transfer enhancement due to surface modifications has not been well studied or understood. The properties of water, such as the latent heat of vaporization, surface tension, the difference in specific volume of liquid and vapor, decrease at high-pressure. High-pressure pool-boiling heat transfer enhancement is studied fundamentally on various engineered surfaces. The boiling tests are performed at a maximum pressure of 90 psig (620.5 kPa) and then compared to results at 0 psig (0 kPa). The results indicate that the pressure influences the boiling performance through changes in bubble dynamics. The bubble departure diameter, bubble departure frequency, and the active nucleation sites change with pressure. The pool-boiling heat transfer enhancement of a Teflon© coated surface is also experimentally tested, using water as the working fluid. The boiling results are compared with a plain surface at two different pressures, 30 and 45 psig. The maximum heat transfer enhancement is found at the low heat fluxes. At high heat fluxes, a negligible effect is observed in HTC. The primary reasons for the HTC enhancement at low heat fluxes are active nucleation sites at low wall superheat and bubble departure size. The Teflon© coated surface promotes nucleation because of the lower surface energy requirement. The boiling results are also obtained for wick surfaces. The wick surfaces are fabricated using a sintering process. The boiling results are compared with a plain surface. The reasons for enhancements in the pool-boiling performance are primarily due to increased bubble generation, higher bubble release frequency, reduced thermal-hydraulic length modulation, and enhanced thermal conductivity due to the sintered wick layer. The analysis suggests that the Rayleigh-critical wavelength decreases by 4.67 % of varying pressure, which may cause the bubble pinning between the gaps of sintered particles and avoids the bubble coalescence. Changes in the pitch distance indicate that a liquid-vapor phase separation happens at the solid/liquid interface, which impacts the heat-transfer performance significantly. Similarly, the role of the high-pressure over the wicking layer is further analyzed and studied. It is found that the critical flow length, [lambda]u reduces by three times with 200 [mu]m particles. The results suggest that the porous wick layer provides a capillary-assist to liquid flow effect, and delays the surface dry out. The surface modification and the pressure amplify the boiling heat transfer performance. All these reasons may contribute to the CHF, and HTC enhancement in the wicking layer at high-pressure.

Download or read book Directional Notches as Microstructures to Promote Nucleation and Heat Transfer in Pool Boiling written by Callum McLaughlin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Heat generation in electronic hardware has become a major limiting factor in achieving maximum efficiency in modern computer parts. Classically forced flow convection systems are used to remove this heat at high rates but can be costly to implement and can take up space that may be needed for other critical components. In response to this, systems that use fewer parts scale in compact spaces are needed. In these situations, pool boiling as a heat transfer mechanism can excel. Pool boiling removes heat through the evaporation of fluid. On a flat surface pool boiling is chaotic and this random nature may hinder its ability to remove heat as effectively. The surface geometry of a pool boiling system can be altered to direct the flow of generated vapor bubbles to allow for increased heat flow and higher heat transfer performance. By creating paths for the vapor to follow we can induce currents in the flow of cool fluid to the heater surface, creating a faster cycle of vapor production therefore cooling the heated surface at a faster rate. The purpose of this study is to investigate angled chip notches as an alternative to already existing high heat transfer surfaces in pool boiling. These alternative chips may prove cheaper or easier to produce the alternative which may incorporate fine, hard to produce features or post process coatings like sintering and the addition of hydrophobic materials. This study will examine the effect these specifically designed notches have on the interaction between the directed vapor and the liquid pathways they create. By creating notches in the surface of the chip, vapor bubble is given sites to nucleate and form vapor pathways. The angle walls on the one side of the notch will act as a wedge when water being driven toward the notch pushes the nucleating bubble up and out of the notch. Combined with pairing nucleating notches up with another oppositely facing one the vapor bubble is departing earlier then it would have had it not been assisted by these surface elements. With just these paired notches placed in row, an HTC improvement of 158% was recorded, compared to a plain copper surface. With the inclusion of microchannels this improvement was brought up to 161%"--Abstract.

Download or read book Influence of Liquid Height on Pool Boiling Heat Transfer written by Maharshi Y. Shukla and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As technology advances due to continuous research, devices are becoming more compact, efficient, and powerful. Therefore, heat rejection from such devices becomes ever so critical to maximizing their potential. Compared to other heat extraction methods, boiling provides one of the highest heat transfer coefficients. The heat extraction due to the boiling process is limited to the Critical Heat Flux (CHF). At CHF, an insulating layer of escaping bubbles forms upon the surface to prevent boiling continuity. Subsequently, the surface temperature increases uncontrollably, leading to a system failure. Hence, the elevation of CHF is critical to boiling enhancement. Improvements to the heat transfer process can be made with either surface manipulation or liquid manipulation. Based on previous studies, it is found that the removal of bubbles from the heater surface is critical to enhancing performance. Therefore, it is hypothesized that if a bubble can be encouraged to reach liquid-gas the interface quickly, gains in the boiling performance can be achieved. Due to the vapor bubble's movement in liquid bulk, it becomes critical to understand the influence of liquid height on pool boiling for enhancement. While pool boiling enhancement using heating surface modification is extensively studied and documented, there is a research gap between understanding the effect of liquid height at high heat fluxes. Thus, this study tries to evaluate the influence of liquid height on pool boiling performance at higher heat fluxes and identify the underlying bubble movement mechanism. It is observed that as CHF increases with liquid height. Moreover, it is observed that bubble movement is more effortless at low liquid height resulting in higher HTC. On the other hand, larger liquid height provides improved rewetting of the surface resulting in higher CHF. Upon analysis of high-speed recording of the escaping bubbles, it was observed that the maximum heat transfer coefficient is observed when the liquid height is about four times the height of the departing bubble diameter."--Abstract.

Download or read book Pool boiling Enhancement and Liquid Choking Limits Within and Above a Modulated Porous layer Coating written by Scott Gayton Liter and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploring the Limits of Boiling and Evaporative Heat Transfer Using Micro Nano Structures written by Ming-Chang Lu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents a study exploring the limits of phase-change heat transfer with the aim of enhancing critical heat flux (CHF) in pool boiling and enhancing thermal conductance in heat pipes. The state-of-the-art values of the CHF in pool boiling and the thermal conductance in heat pipes are about two orders of magnitudes smaller than the limits predicted by kinetic theory. Consequently, there seems to be plenty of room for improvement. Pool boiling refers to boiling at a surface immersed in an extensive motionless pool of liquid. Its process includes heterogeneous nucleation, growth, mergence and detachment of vapor bubbles on a heating surface. It is generally agreed that the high heat transfer coefficient of boiling could be explained by the concept of single-phase forced convection, i.e., the motion of bubbles agitating surrounding liquid is similar to the process in single-phase forced convection. The occurrence of CHF results from a formation of a vapor film on the heater surface, which reduces the thermal conductance drastically and causes a huge temperature rise on the surface. Over the past few decades, researchers were struggling to identify the exact mechanism causing CHF. General observations are that both surface properties and pool hydrodynamics could affect the values of CHF. Nanowire array-coated surfaces having a large capillary force are employed to enhance the CHF. It has been shown that CHFs on the nanowire array-coated surface could be doubled compared to the values on a plain surface. The obtained CHF of 224 ± 6.60 W/cm̂2 on the nanowire-array coated surface is one of the highest values reported in the boiling heat transfer. To further enhance CHF, the mechanisms that govern CHF have been systematically explored. Experimental results show that the CHF on the nanowire array-coated surface are not limited by the capillary force. Instead, the CHF are dependent on the heater size. Corresponding experiments on plain surfaces with various heater sizes also exhibits similar heater-size dependence. The CHFs on nanowire array-coated surfaces and plain surfaces are consistent with the predictions of the hydrodynamic theory while a higher CHF is obtained on the nanowire array-coated surface as compared to the plain Si surface. This suggests that the CHFs are a result of the pool hydrodynamics while surface properties modify the corresponding hydrodynamic limits. A heat pipe is a device that transports thermal energy in a very small temperature difference and thereby producing a very large thermal conductance. It relies on evaporation of liquid at the heated end of the pipe, flow of vapor between the heated and cooled end, condensation at the other end, and capillary-driven liquid flow through a porous wick between the condenser and the evaporation. The large latent heat involved in evaporation and condensation leads to very large heat flows for a small temperature drop along the heat pipe. Despite the large thermal conductance, their operation is limited by such factors as capillary limit, boiling limit, sonic limit and entrainment limit, etc. Among these operational limits, capillary and boiling limits are most frequently encountered. The capillary limit determines the maximum flow rate provided by the capillary force of the wick structure whereas boiling limit is referred to a condition that liquid supply is blocked by vapor bubbles in the wick. Consequently, the wick structure is the key component in a heat pipe, which determines the maximum capillary force and the dominant thermal resistance. In a heat pipe using evaporation as the dominant heat transfer mechanism, a thin liquid film (̃ a few microns) extended from the solid structure in the wick causes the dominant thermal resistance. Therefore, if one reduces the pore size of a porous media, the thermal conductance could be enhanced by increasing the surface area of the thin liquid film. On the other hand, the classical thermodynamics depicts that the superheat required for evaporation is inversely proportional to the equilibrium radius of the meniscus. Consequently, enhancing thermal conductance via increasing the thin film area is contradictory to the effect of evaporation suppression for small pores. A hierarchical wick structure with multiple length scales that enhances dry-out heat flux and thermal conductance simultaneously in heat pipes was demonstrated. This hierarchical wick structure is composed of a large microchannel array to reduce flow resistance and small pin-fin arrays to provide a large capillary force. The enhancement of thermal conductance is achieved via a large number of pin-fins for increasing the total thin film area. A thermal conductance defined by the slope of the curve of ̃16.28 ± 1.33 W/cm̂2-K and a dry-out heat flux of 228.85 ± 10.73 W/cm̂2 were achieved by this design. Further, vapor transport resistance is minimized within the aligned-multi-scale wick structure. As a result, this wick does not pose a boiling limit. Artificial cavities were created in the wick structure to take the advantage of the high heat transfer coefficient of boiling heat transfer. The wick with artificial cavities successfully triggers boiling at a lower wall temperature resulting in a conductance of 9.02 ± 0.04 W/cm̂2-K compared to an evaporation mode of 3.54 ± 0.01 W/cm̂2-K. For a given heat flux, the wick with cavities effectively reduce wall temperature compared to a wick without cavities. Our experimental results display an enhancement of thermal conductance by using boiling heat transfer. This opens up a new direction for further enhancing thermal conductance in heat pipes by circumventing the limit in the evaporative heat transfer regime, in which further increase in surface area will eventually result in evaporation suppression in small pores.

Download or read book Flow Boiling in Open Microchannels with Tapered Manifolds Using Ethanol in a Gravity driven Flow written by Philipp K. Buchling Rego and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Flow boiling in microchannel heat sinks has been researched extensively for its use in the cooling of high-power electronics. Previous works have proven open microchannels with tapered gap manifolds are effective in delivering enhanced flow boiling performance, with significant reductions in pressure drop. This work explores the feasibility of employing ethanol as a dielectric fluid in an open microchannel geometry with tapered manifolds, under a gravity-driven flow. A heat flux of 217 ± 13 W/cm2 was dissipated with a pressure drop of only 8.8 ± 0.5 kPa. Parametric trends are presented regarding flow rate, taper, pressure drop characteristics, and their effect on critical heat flux, providing basic insight into designing high heat flux systems under a given gravitational head requirement. Based on the obtained results, design guidelines are developed for the manifold taper, ethanol flow rate, and imposed heat flux on the heat transfer coefficient and gravity head requirement for electronics cooling. Reducing flow instability and pressure drop, and enhancing heat transfer performance for a dielectric fluid will enable the development of pumpless cooling solutions in a variety of electronics cooling applications."--Abstract.

Download or read book Pool Boiling Studies on Nanotextured Surfaces Under Highly Subcooled Conditions written by Vijaykumar Sathyamurthi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subcooled pool boiling on nanotextured surfaces is explored in this study. The experiments are performed in an enclosed viewing chamber. Two silicon wafers are coated with Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNT), 9 microns (Type-A) and 25 microns (Type-B) in height. A third bare silicon wafer is used for control experiments. The test fluid is PF-5060, a fluoroinert with a boiling point of 56°C (Manufacturer: 3M Co.). The apparatus is of the constant heat flux type. Pool boiling experiments in nucleate and film boiling regimes are reported in this study. Experiments are carried out under low subcooling (5 °C and 10 °C) and high subcooling conditions (20°C to ~ 38°C). At approximately 38°C, a non-departing bubble configuration is obtained on a bare silicon wafer. Increase in subcooling is found to enhance the critical heat flux (CHF) and the CHF is found to shift towards higher wall superheats. Presence of MWCNT on the test surface led to an enhancement in heat flux. Potential factors responsible for boiling heat transfer enhancement on heater surfaces coated with MWCNT are identified as follows: a. Enhanced surface area or nano - fin effect b. Higher thermal conductivity of MWCNT than the substrate c. Disruption of vapor-liquid vapor interface in film boiling, and of the "microlayer" region in nucleate boiling d. Enhanced transient heat transfer caused by local quasi-periodic transient liquid-solid contacts due to presence of the "hair like" protrusion of the MWCNT e. Enhancement in the size of cold spots f. Pinning of contact line, leading to enhanced surface area underneath the bubble leading to enhanced heat transfer Presence of MWCNT is found to enhance the phase change heat transfer by approximately 400% in nucleate boiling for conditions of low subcooling. The heat transfer enhancement is found to be independent of the height of MWCNT in nucleate boiling regime in the low subcooling cases. About 75%-120% enhancement in heat transfer is observed for surfaces coated with MWCNT under conditions of high subcooling in the nucleate boiling regime. Surfaces coated with Type-B MWCNT show a 75% enhancement in heat transfer in the film boiling regime under conditions of low subcooling.

Download or read book Hydrodynamic Aspects of Boiling Heat Transfer written by N. Zuber and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sub Cooled Pool Boiling Enhancement with Nanofluids written by Elliott Charles Rice and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phase-change heat transfer is an important process used in many engineering thermal designs. Boiling is an important phase change phenomena as it is a common heat transfer process in many thermal systems. Phase change processes are critical to thermodynamic cycles as most closed loop systems have an evaporator, in which the phase change process occurs. There are many applications/processes in which engineers employ the advantages of boiling heat transfer, as they seek to improve heat transfer performance. Recent research efforts have experimentally shown that nanofluids can have significantly better heat transfer properties than those of the pure base fluids, such as water. The objective of this study is to improve the boiling curve of de-ionized water by adding aluminum oxide nanoparticles in 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3% and 0.4% wt concentrations in a sub-cooled pool boiling apparatus. Enhancement to the boiling curve can be quantified in two ways: (i) the similar heat fluxes of de-ionized water at smaller excess temperature, indicating similar quantity of heat removal at lower temperatures and (ii) greater heat fluxes than de-ionized water at similar excess temperatures indicating better heat transfer at similar excess temperatures. In the same fashion, the secondary objective is to increase the convective heat transfer coefficient due to boiling by adding different concentrations of aluminum oxide nanoparticles.

Download or read book An Experimental Study on Pool Boiling Performance Enhancement and Effect of Aging written by Aniket M. Rishi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The miniaturization of electronic devices requires advanced thermal management techniques. The two-phase heat transfer process offers more effective and sustainable approach compared to the presently used single-phase cooling techniques. The boiling heat transfer is a two-phase cooling technique, that dissipates a high heat flux while maintaining the low surface temperature thereby, offering an efficient heat transfer mechanism compared to the single-phase process. Furthermore, the surface enhancement techniques such as micro/nano porous coatings help to maintain the low surface temperature thus improving the overall heat transfer performance. Electrodeposition is a simple technique that enhances this performance by creating the porous structure on the surface. This research focuses on developing an enhanced microscale structures on plain copper surfaces to improve the pool boiling performance. Additionally, the longevity (or the long-term stability) and aging of these enhanced structures, and their effects on the pool-boiling performance is also investigated. Initially the pool boiling performance of enhanced surfaces is studied. The enhanced surfaces were prepared using electrodeposition of copper and graphene oxide. Later, the effects of repetitive boiling on the morphology of the surfaces were examined using various characterization techniques such as Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), and Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR). The chips coated with electrodeposition method rendered a high pool boiling performance for GS-4 (2.5% GO-Cu electrodeposited chip) with CHF of 220 W/cm2 at wall superheat of 14°C, giving ~76% improvement in CHF compared to plain copper chip. While, copper on copper electrodeposited chip, deposited with a different technique, performed better in both CHF and aging. CHF of 192 W/cm2 at wall superheat of 18.8°C was achieved for copper electrodeposited chip, giving ~30% enhancement compared to literature and ~54% enhancement when compared to plain copper chip. Moreover, surface characterization techniques including Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with Energy- Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDS), Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) were employed to study the morphologies, elemental species, and to confirm the presence of graphene and graphene oxide on the test surfaces."--Abstract.