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Critical heat flux(CHF) is measured during pool boiling of water and R113 on a heated horizontal wire submerged in a subcooled liquid. Experiments are conducted over a pressure range from 0.1 to 3.0 MPa and subcooling up to 220 K. CHF data reveal that the CHF increases in a linear fashion with an increase in subcooling, and that the increment of the CHF with increasing subcooling becomes larger with increasing pressure. The characteristics of the CHF obtained differ from those of existing correlations at high pressures, although it is a similar tendency to them in that the CHF is proportional to the subcooling. A new correlation is derived by taking into account the effect of both the density ratio, ρ L /ρ V , and the Peclet number, Pe, and it succeeds in predicting the CHF data up to higher pressure and higher subcooling ranges, more effectively than previous studies using existing applicable ranges.
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Received on 23 July 1997
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Inoue, T., Kawae, N. & Monde, M. Effect of subcooling on critical heat flux during pool boiling on a horizontal heated wire. Heat and Mass Transfer 33, 481–488 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002310050219
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002310050219