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The Effect of Coating Thickness and Roughness of Nucleate Pool Boiling Heat Transfer on Nanoparticle Coated Surface

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The influence of coating thickness and surface roughness on pool boiling heat transfer is experimentally studied over a range of surface roughness values with varied coating thickness with water at atmospheric pressure. Test surfaces used in this experiment are namely, untreated surface (Ra = 0.0899 µm), polished surface (Ra = 0.0493 µm), TiO2 nanoparticle coated surface with a roughness (Ra) ranging from 0.0338 to 0.289 µm. The surfaces were characterized with respect to contact angle, surface roughness and coating thickness. The contact angle, surface roughness and coating thickness were measured by sessile drop method, optical surface profiler and instrument thickness monitor respectively. Heat fluxes observed ranged from 52.63 to 144.73 W/cm2. Different trends were observed in the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) with respect to the surface roughness and coating thickness values on the same set of heat flux. The HTC was found to increase with increasing the roughness values for untreated and polish surface but nanoparticle coated surfaces displayed different trend in HTCs. The HTC was found to increase with increasing coating thickness with all wall superheat.

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Das, S., Bhaumik, S. The Effect of Coating Thickness and Roughness of Nucleate Pool Boiling Heat Transfer on Nanoparticle Coated Surface. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. E 97, 55–62 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40034-015-0063-3

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