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Survey of heat transfer correlations in forced convection boiling

Zusammenstellung von Wärmeübergangs-Beziehungen beim Sieden bei Zwangskonvektion

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Abstract

A critical survey was conducted of the most relevant correlations of boiling heat transfer for water in forced convection flow.

Most of the investigations carried out on partial nucleate boiling and fully developed nucleate boiling have led to the formulation of correlations which cannot cover a wide range of operating conditions, due to the empirical approach considered.

A comparative analysis is therefore required in order to define the accuracy of the proposed correlations, on the basis of the experimental data presently available.

The survey allows the accuracy of the different calculating procedures to be evaluated. The results obtained also indicate the most reliable heat transfer correlations for the different operating conditions investigated.

This survey was developed considering five pressure ranges (up to 180 bar) for both saturation and subcooled boiling conditions.

Zusammenfassung

Die wichtigsten Beziehungen für das Sieden von Wasser bei Zwangskonvektion wurde kritisch zusammengestellt.

Die meisten Untersuchungen über partielles und über voll entwickeltes Blasensieden führten zu Beziehungen, die wegen ihrer empirischen Ableitung keinen weiteren Bereich der Arbeitsbedingungen abdecken können.

Man braucht daher eine vergleichende Untersuchung, um die Genauigkeit der vorgeschlagenen Beziehungen auf der Grundlage der vorhandenen Meßdaten zu bestimmen.

Diese Zusammenstellung erlaubt es, die Genauigkeit der verschiedenen Rechenverfahren auszuwerten. Die erhaltenen Ergebnisse führen auf die zuverlässigsten Wärmeübergangsbeziehungen für verschiedene Arbeitsbedingungen. Es wurden fünf Druckbereiche (bis zu 180 bar) für Sieden bei Sättigung und bei Unterkühlung betrachtet.

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Abbreviations

BL :

coefficient defined by Levy correlation

c:

specific heat at constant pressure, J/kg K

D:

equivalent diameter of flow channel, m

d:

bubble departure diameter, m

f:

bubble frequency, 1/s

g:

gravity acceleration, m/s2

G:

mass velocity, kg/m2s

H:

enthalpy, J/kg

h:

heat transfer coefficient, W/m2K

L:

latent heat of vaporization, J/kg

M:

molecular weight

p:

pressure, bar

ΔP :

pressure difference corresponding to the superheat, bar

q:

heat flux, W/m2

RP :

smoothing-depth, m

T:

temperature, K

ΔTs :

superheat, K

ΔTsub :

subcooling, K

w:

liquid velocity, m/s

x:

steam quality

α:

thermal diffusivity, m2/s

λ:

thermal conductivity, W/m K

μ:

viscosity, N s/m2

ρ:

density, kg/m3

σ:

surface tension, N/m

Θ:

contact angle, rad

Re:

Reynolds number

Pr:

Prandtl number

B:

refers to boiling condition

b:

refers to bulk flow condition

c:

refers to calculated value

cr:

refers to critical condition

e:

refers to experimental data

f:

refers to single phase condition

FDB:

refers to fully developed nucleate boiling condition

ℓ:

refers to liquid phase

i:

refers to incipient boiling condition

p.b:

refers to pool boiling condition

s:

refers to saturation condition

v:

refers to saturated vapor condition

w:

refers to wall temperature

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Guglielmini, G., Nannei, E. & Pisoni, C. Survey of heat transfer correlations in forced convection boiling. Warme- und Stoffubertragung 13, 177–185 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01433445

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