Heat transfer and crisis phenomena at boiling in Freon mixture films falling down the structured tube

Investigation results on hydrodynamics, heat transfer, and crisis phenomena in laminar-wave liquid films falling down the surfaces of different geometry are presented in this study. Freon mixture R21/R114 with initial concentration of low-boiling component of 4?C16.6 % was used as the working liquid. The film Reynolds number at the inlet to the experimental section varied from 60 to 700. The heat flux density was changed within 0?C5 W/cm². The images of wave surface of the falling liquid film and formation of dry spots were visualized and recorded by the high-speed video camera. Results of investigation of the wave structure of the film surface, measurements of heat transfer coefficients under the conditions of boiling, and critical heat fluxes in the film flow over the smooth and structured surfaces are presented.     

降膜式液膜蒸发器换热特性的实验研究

1引言降膜式蒸发器由于具有很高的换热强度和易操作性，在化工、食品、制冷和海水淡化等工业中得到了广泛的应用。对于垂直降膜的流动和换热特性，前人已经进行了很多的研究［‘－’］。但是绝大部分的研究工作都局限于单侧液膜的传热与流动问题，缺少对实际工程上采用的降膜蒸发器在同时考虑双侧传热时的实验结果。同时，大部分实验研究中采用恒热流的电加热方式，而对于工程上常用的蒸汽加热的恒壁温情况实验结果较少。此外，管壁材料对蒸发器换热性能的影响也需要进一步的研究。本文采用模拟工程上的竖直管降膜式蒸发实验装置，对不锈钢…     

Experimental investigation of thermal structures in regular three-dimensional falling films

The European Physical Journal Special Topics - Interfacial waves on the surface of a falling liquid film are known to modify heat and mass transfer. Under non-isothermal conditions, the wave...     

Heat transfer at evaporation of falling films of Freon mixture on the smooth and structured surfaces

The paper presents the results of experimental investigation of heat transfer and hydrodynamics of falling films of binary mixtures of R21 and R114 freons on the surfaces with complex configuration. The vertical tubes of 50-mm diameter with the smooth and structured surfaces, made of D16T alloy, were used as the working sections. The range of film Reynolds number at the inlet to the working section was Re =10÷155. The image of wave surface of the falling liquid film was visualized and recorded by a high-speed digital video camera. At evaporation the heat transfer coefficients on the smooth and structured surfaces are determined by the liquid flow rate and weakly depend on the heat flux. At low liquid flows, the heat transfer coefficients on the structured surface decrease in comparison with the smooth surface because of liquid accumulation and enlargement of efficient thickness in microtexture channels. At high liquid flows, a change in the structure of the wave film surface leads to an increase in heat transfer coefficients in comparison with the smooth surface.     

Flow patterns and flowboiling heat transfer of freon R318C in an annular minichannel

This paper deals with experimental results on flowboiling heat transfer of liquid moving in an annular channel with unilateral central heating under the conditions of a significant effect of capillary forces on the flow modes and heat transfer. Experiments were carried out on boiling freon R318C in an annular channel with a gap of 0.95 mm and transparent outer wall. The inner wall was heated by the electric current. The local heat transfer coefficients and flow modes are presented. The critical film thickness corresponding to suppression of nucleate boiling was determined.     

水平管外降膜流动液膜厚度的测量及分析

应用双极电导探针技术对水平管外无传热时的降膜流动的液膜厚度分布及其变化特性进行了实验研究.试验段水平管管径为φ25.4mm,长为300mm,液膜流量范围为Q=50~250L.h-1,水平管之间的垂直管间距分别为25mm,32mm,40mm.测量了不同流量、管间距变化条件下的液膜厚度分布,重点分析了流址变化、管间距变化、...     

水平管降膜蒸发器传热优化研究

基于分布参数方法,对大型制冷系统中的水平管外降膜蒸发进行了传热优化数值模拟计算.在计算中,分析了饱和的液态制冷剂R134a在水平的铜管束外流动蒸发的换热特性.模型考虑了不同的管子类型和2流程不同管程布置对蒸发器换热特性的影响,结果表明,蒸发器采用Turbo-EHP管的性能高于其它管;不同管程布置对蒸发器性能的影响比较大,其中,下进上出管程布置的换热性能优于其它管程布置.同时,本文考虑了传热管外"干斑"对换热的影响.本文结论对于大型制冷系统中的降膜蒸发器传热优化设计具有指导性意义.     

Heat transfer and crisis phenomena with intense boiling in the falling wave liquid films

Experimental data on heat transfer with intense evaporation in the falling films of liquid nitrogen were analysed. According to data generalization, heat transfer at evaporation becomes more intense under the precrisis modes at high heat fluxes for two studied boundary conditions on the heat-releasing surface: T _w ≈ const and q _w ≈ const. The relative contributions of conductive and convective components of heat transfer for different heat fluxes were estimated due to statistical treatment of the wave characteristics carried out by the capacitance probes for measurement of the local liquid film thickness. It was found out that heat transfer intensification is mainly caused by a drastic decrease in thermal resistance of the local zones with intensely evaporating residual layer between large waves. At that, the convective component of heat transfer related to wave perturbations on a free surface of a liquid film decreases significantly with a rise of heat fluxes. New data on pulsations of the local temperature of the heat-releasing surface were obtained at different points along the flow with the modes of “dry spot” formation. The work was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant No. 03-02-04027-NNIO-a) and DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, project Nos. Re-463-37-1 and SFB-540).     

波纹壁面降膜过程的一种近似模型

对高粘度液体在正弦形波纹壁面上的自由降落和蒸发建立了分析模型。对控制微分方程及边界条件作无量纲处理,引入流函数,采用摄动展开得到了0级近似和一级近似的微分方程组,讨论了液膜的流动和传热特性与壁面之间的关系。     

Influence of thermocapillary effects on wave characteristics of the heated liquid film

Wave characteristics of the water film flow over a vertical plate with a heater were studied. Without a heat flux, data obtained perfectly coincide with results of other authors obtained for an isothermal liquid film. When heating the falling liquid, thermocapillary forces form the rivulets and thin film between them. It was found out that an increase in the heat flux causes a rise of the phase velocity and decreases the frequency of 3D waves. It is shown that in contrast to the known data for an isothermal liquid film, the average relative wave amplitude increases with a rise of dimensionless complex Re_loc/Ka _loc ^1/11 at relatively high heat flux densities in the interrivulet. The growth of wave amplitude under the action of thermocapillary forces was revealed in the interrivulet, what corresponds to calculations. The work was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grants Nos. 05-08-33325-a and 06-01-00360-a), Federal Target R&D Program (State contracts Nos. 02.438.11.7002 and NSh-6749.2006.8), and SB RAS (International interdisciplinary project No. 111).     

Heat transfer in falling laminar-wavy liquid films

Heat transfer in the laminar-wavy film of liquid falling over the heated plate is studied numerically. To describe the wavy film flow the integral model is applied. Calculation results demonstrate the effect of physical properties of liquid and wavy flow parameters on heat transfer intensification by stationary running waves.     

Interconnection between dynamics of liquid boiling-up and heat transfer crisis for nonstationary heat release

This paper deals with investigation results on crisis phenomena for nonstationary heat release under the conditions of free convection and in falling liquid films. It is shown that the character of the crisis development and the critical heat flux for nonstationary heat release significantly depend on the characteristics determining the temperature head of liquid boiling-up. According to experimental data with an arbitrary temporal function of heating, the character of the dependence between the critical heat flux and the heat release increasing rate is significantly effected by ready nucleation sites. It is found that a change in the nonstationary critical heat flux in the range of high times between impulses for periodic heat release is connected with deactivation of ready nucleation sites on the heat-releasing surface. According to new experimental results, in the studied range of irrigation degree alteration (Re_in = 30–1660), parameters characterizing decay of the falling liquid film with stepped heat release (the distribution of the time of boiling-up expectation along the liquid film, the velocities of movable boundaries in the boiling-up and drying fronts, the intensity of liquid ejection from the heat-releasing surface) complexly depend on the Reynolds number, wave characteristics, and heat flux density. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Disintegration of flows of superheated liquid films and jets

This paper represents results on investigating the dynamics of boiling and disintegration of superheated liquid films and jets. The first part deals with experimental study of boiling liquid outflow through short cylindrical and slit channels. Evolution of disintegration of a hot water jet flow is observed both at low and moderate superheating and at high and limit superheating, and also for vaporization mechanisms corresponding to these superheatings. Peculiarities of disintegration of jets through slit and cylindrical channels are noticed. Results on measuring the reactive thrust of the jet through a slit channel under different geometrical conditions behind the channel outlet are represented. The 1/f fluctuations in transient regimes of superheated liquid boiling and in transient regimes of behavior of the jet shape are found. The second part of this article represents results on experimental investigation of nonsteady heat transfer and dynamics of the development of crisis phenomena at boiling of a falling subcooled liquid film in the conditions of stepwise heat release. The experimental data were obtained using synchronized high-speed infrared thermography and video. It is shown that with growth and condensation of vapor bubbles, on the liquid film interface appear large-amplitude waves that lead to considerably increasing local intensity of heat transfer. New data on the boiling incipience temperature in a subcooled liquid film, depending on the heat flux density, are obtained. It is found that the development of boiling crisis is a result of appearance of local dry patches and their subsequent growth by the mechanism of longitudinal thermal conductivity in the heat transfer wall as the equilibrium heat flux density is exceeded.     

降膜结晶过程传热传质简化积分模型模拟计算

本文在对降膜结晶分离过程进行传热传质分析的基础上,建立了简化数学模型。文中按时间先后次序分成若干时间流股,并对每一流股按随体坐标自上而下对传热和传质方程进方积分,其中利用稳态充分发展的传热传质公式计算局部、即时的结晶量,进一步将不同时间流股所得结晶量叠加即得到结晶在空间和时间上的分布。文中将计算结果与所作的实验结果进行了比较,二者吻合较好。最后利用本文的计算模型进一步对广泛的影响因素进行了研究,获得一系列有益的结果。     

Quenching by Falling Cryogenic Liquid Film of Extremely Overheated Plate with Structured Capillary-Porous Coating

The paper presents results of a computational experiment simulating rapid cooling by falling liquid nitrogen film of an overheated vertical copper plate with a structured capillary-porous coating. A dynamic pattern of the running quench front was obtained, and it correlates satisfactorily with that observed in the experiments. The features of the heat transfer and quench front dynamics in the transient process are studied. The maximum density of the heat flux carried away into the liquid turned out to exceed by far that in quasi-stationary conditions. The presence of capillaryporous coating significantly affects the dynamics of quenching and temperature fields and makes it possible to reduce the total quenching time more than threefold. Initialization of a quench front on a plate with a structured capillary-porous coating occurs at a temperature much higher than the thermodynamic limit of liquid superheat. The reliability of the numerical simulation results was confirmed via direct comparison with experimental data on the variation of the plate temperature, as well as on the velocity and geometry of the quench front.     

COMPARISON OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER IN FALLING FILM AND BUBBLE ABSORBERS OF AMMONIA-WATER

An experimental analysis of ammonia-water absorption process was performed for the falling film and bubble modes in a plate-type absorber. The experiments were made to examine the effects of solution flow rate and gas flow rate on the performance of the absorber. It was found that the bubble mode is superior to the falling film mode for mass transfer performance, and more heat was generated in the bubble mode. Increase of solution flow rate rarely affected the mass transfer, but improved the heat transfer. As the gas flow rate increased, fluidization occurred in the bubble mode and influenced the thermal boundary layer. However, channeling appeared in the falling film mode and decreased the heat transfer area. Increase of the gas flow rate greatly enhanced the performance of heat transfer in the bubble mode but made it worse in the falling film mode. Finally, the results were converted into dimensionless numbers to elucidate physical phenomena and we plotted Sherwood number versus Reynolds number for mass transfer performance and Nusselt number versus Reynolds number for heat transfer performance.     

Measuring deformations of the heated liquid film by the fluorescence method

The fluorescence method was used to measure the instantaneous thickness field of the falling nonisothermal water film. The process of rivulet formation in a heated film was registered. Measurement averaging allowed determination of the degree of transverse deformation of a film. In the lower half of the heater within the interrivulet zone of the non-isothermal film, the wave amplitude decreases with a rise of the heat flux and reduction of the average thickness. Two zones of the heat flux effect on liquid film deformation were distinguished. At low heat fluxes, the film flow is weakly deformed. At high heat fluxes the thermal-capillary forces provide formation of rivulets and a thin film between them. The work was financially supported by the President of RF (NSh-6749.2006.8), Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grants Nos. 05-08-33325-a, 06-01-00360-a), National Center on Science and Innovations (State contract No. 02.438.11.7002), and SB RAS (Interdisciplinary Integration Project No. 111).     

壁面涂层构型对垂直降膜流动特性的影响

利用特种表面涂层材料对实验管壁进行改性,使液膜形成沟流,实现液膜的内外表面溶液重新掺混;管外涂层的不同构型形成表面张力梯度表面,在吸收过程中可引导液滴向液膜方向运动,促进液膜扰动,从而达到强化传质的目的.通过液膜流动的可视化照片和液膜波动特性的实验结果,对不同状况下的流动形态进行初步分析.     

雾化喷射下的波动液膜的电测量

冷却壁面上液膜的特性行为与厚度直接关系到雾化喷射冷却的深入研究。本文报道了在雾化喷射下水平壁面液膜厚度的测量。借助示波器,通过液膜直流信号配以几何尺寸的精确测量,实验研究了给定喷管雾化喷射下液膜波动行为和厚度随压力和喷头高度的变化。结合对流传热系数测量,分析了液膜厚度与雾化喷射冷却条件及效果的关系。     

The effect of wave characteristics on rivulet formation in heated liquid films

Formation of rivulets on the surface of non-isothermal water film falling vertically over the heaters with different sizes and boundary conditions was studied experimentally. The distances between rivulets were measured depending on Reynolds number, heat flux density and film path (a distance between the lower edge of a film-former nozzle and the measurement point of film flow characteristics). The breakdown of solitary waves at liquid film heating was revealed. Four zones of film path influence on rivulet formation were distinguished.