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Flow boiling heat transfer to carbon dioxide: general prediction method.

Author(s) : THOME J. R., HAJAL J. el

Type of article: Article, IJR article

Summary

An updated version of the Kattan-Thome-Favrat flow pattern based, flow boiling heat transfer model for horizontal tubes has been developed specifically for CO2. Because CO2 has a low critical temperature and hence high evaporating pressures compared to our previous database, it was found necessary to first correct the nucleate pool boiling correlation to better describe CO2 at high reduced pressures and secondly to include a boiling suppression factor on the nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient to capture the trends in the flow boiling data. The new method predicts 73% of the CO2 database (404 data points) to within ±20% and 86% to within ±30% over the vapor quality range of 2-91%. The database covers five tube diameters from 0.79 to 10.06 mm, mass velocities from 85 to 1440 kg m-2 s-1, heat fluxes from 5 to 36 kW m-2, saturation temperatures from -25 °C to +25 °C and saturation pressures from 1.7 to 6.4 MPa (reduced pressures up to 0.87).

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Pages: 294-301

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  • Original title: Flow boiling heat transfer to carbon dioxide: general prediction method.
  • Record ID : 2004-1075
  • Languages: English
  • Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 27 - n. 3
  • Publication date: 2004/05

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