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Experimental study of bubble behaviors and heat transfer coefficient on hot steel balls during deionized water pool boiling

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In this study, deionized water pool boiling experiments were performed on austenitic stainless steel AISI 304 steel balls with different initial temperatures. The disturbance and rupture of the vapor film during the quenching process are obtained by a high-speed camera. The temperature profile of the steel ball center during cooling was obtained by thermocouple temperature measurement. Based on the inverse heat conduction method, the inverse heat transfer program was independently developed to solve the surface temperature of the steel ball, the interfacial heat transfer coefficient and the heat flux. The results show that there is no film boiling when the steel ball temperature is 650 °C. There are four stages of film boiling, transition boiling, nucleate boiling and natural convection when the steel ball temperature is between 700 and 1000 °C. The thickness of the vapor film increases with the increase of the initial quenching temperature. At an initial temperature of 1000 °C, the thickness of the vapor film in the equatorial direction is 3.5 to 3.6 mm. With the increase of the initial temperature, the duration and rupture time of the vapor film were prolonged, and the central and boundary LFP temperatures gradually decreased. When the initial temperature is between 700 ~ 1000 °C, the vapor film lasts about 6.5 ~ 32.1 s, and the LFP temperatures at the center are between 612.3 °C and 514.7 °C, respectively. When the initial temperature is 650 °C, the maximum IHTC value is about 11,700 W/(m2·℃), and the critical heat flux is 1545.85 kW/m2. As the initial temperature is 1000 °C, the maximum IHTC value is about 14,900 W/(m2·°C), and the critical heat flux is 1508.43 kW/m2.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52175342), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2021ME129) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52005304).

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    Lidan Ning, Yaxing Sun, Xiaowen Liu, Lianfang He, Zhichao Li & Huiping Li

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Ning, L., Sun, Y., Liu, X. et al. Experimental study of bubble behaviors and heat transfer coefficient on hot steel balls during deionized water pool boiling. Heat Mass Transfer 59, 2311–2322 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-023-03419-y

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