Experimental investigation on partial pool boiling heat transfer in pure liquids

Abstract

Saturated partial pool boiling heat transfer has been experimentally investigated on a horizontal rod heater. The boiling liquids are including water and ethanol. The heating section is made by various materials including SS316, copper, aluminum and brass. Experiments have been performed at several degrees of surface roughness ranging between 30 and 360 micrometer average vertical deviation. The measurements are including boiling heat transfer coefficient, bubble departing diameter and frequency and also nucleation site density. The data have been compared to major existing correlations. It is shown that experimental data do not match with major correlations at the entire range of experiments with acceptable accuracy. In this article, the boiling heat transfer area has been divided in two complementary areas, the induced forced convection area and the boiling affected area. Based on two dimensionless groups, including E?tv?s and Roshko numbers, a semi-empirical model have been proposed to predict the boiling heat transfer coefficient. It is shown that the proposed model provides improved performance in prediction of the boiling heat transfer coefficient in comparison with to existing correlations.