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A general correlation for critical heat flux in horizontal channels.

Author(s) : SHAH M. M.

Type of article: Article, IJR article

Summary

While horizontal channels are widely used in heat exchangers involving boiling, no well-verified method for predicting CHF (critical heat flux) in them is available. Presented here is a general correlation for CHF in horizontal channels. It provides the ratio of CHF in horizontal channels to CHF in vertical channels. It has been verified with a very wide range of test data that include 10 fluids (water, refrigerants, and hydrocarbons) in single channels and multi-channels of diameters 0.13–24.3?mm, reduced pressures from 0.005 to 0.9, mass flux from 20 to 11,390?kg/m2s, inlet qualities from -1.05 to 0.72, and critical qualities from -0.2 to 0.99. Data include uniform and non-uniform heat fluxes. With CHF for vertical channels calculated by the author's published correlation, it predicts 878 data points from 39 data sets from 18 sources with a mean absolute deviation of only 15.4%. The new correlation is presented and other predictive techniques are also discussed.

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  • Original title: A general correlation for critical heat flux in horizontal channels.
  • Record ID : 30016315
  • Languages: English
  • Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 59
  • Publication date: 2015/11

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