Experimental study on enhanced heat transfer tubes in falling film evaporation

Abstract

Abstract The vertical tube falling film evaporation experimental platform was built, and the falling film evaporation heat transfer experiment was carried out. Comparative study was carried out between two types of enhanced heat transfer tubes, which are converging-diverging tube and the transversally corrugated tube, to explore their heat transfer characteristics of falling film evaporation. The results show that the falling film evaporative heat transfer coefficient of the two tubes increases with the increase of the unit peripheral flow rate, the heat transfer temperature difference, heat flux and the Reynolds number of the flash steam. The falling film evaporation heat transfer coefficient of the converging-diverging tube is about 1.09 times that of the transversally corrugated tube. According to the experimental data, the falling film evaporation heat transfer correlations of these two types of tubes were obtained. These results provide a useful reference for the using of transversally corrugated tube and converging-diverging tube in vertical falling film evaporator.