Open Access

ARTICLE

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ENHANCED NUCLEATE BOILING HEAT TRANSFER ON UNIFORM AND MODULATED POROUS STRUCTURES

Calvin Hong Li^a, G. P. Peterson^b,*

a Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, 43606, USA
b G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA

* Corresponding Author: Email:

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2010, 1(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.v1.2.3007

Abstract

An experimental investigation of the Critical Heat Flux (CHF) and heat transfer coefficient (HTC) of two-phase heat transfer of de-Ionized (DI) water, pool boiling was conducted using several kinds of sintered copper microparticle porous uniform and modulated structures. The modulated porous structure reached a heat flux of 450 W/cm² and a heat transfer coefficient of 230,000 W/m2K. The thick and thin uniform porous structures achieved CHFs of 290 W/cm² and 227 W/cm² , respectively, and heat transfer coefficients of 118,000 W/m²K and 104,000 W/m²K. The mechanisms for the dramatically improved CHFs and HTCs were identified with assistance of a visualization study.

---

Keywords

---