The document discusses nucleate boiling heat transfer, which occurs when a heated surface's temperature rises above the local saturation temperature, causing pre-existing vapor in wall sites to nucleate and grow. This marks the onset of nucleate boiling (ONB). A relation is developed between the wall superheat required for ONB (ΔTONB) and the axial location of ONB (ZONB). Various models are presented for predicting nucleate boiling, including the Chen correlation which accounts for both nucleate boiling and convective boiling heat transfer mechanisms. The Steiner-Taborek asymptotic model describes natural limitations on flow boiling heat transfer coefficients. Water wall arrangements in steam generators are also discussed.
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1. Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer
P M V Subbarao
Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
Recognition and Adaptation of Efficient Mode of Heat
Transfer …..
3. The Onset of Nucleate Boiling
• If the wall temperature rises sufficiently above the local saturation
temperature pre-existing vapor in wall sites can nucleate and grow.
• This temperature, TONB, marks the onset of nucleate boiling for this
flow boiling situation.
• From the standpoint of an energy balance this occurs at a particular
axial location along the tube length, ZONB.
• For a uniform flux condition,
We can arrange this energy balance to emphasize the necessary
superheat above saturation for the onset of nucleate boiling
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4. Now that we have a relation between TONB and ZONB we must
provide a stability model for the onset of nucleate boiling.
one can formulate a model based on the metastable condition of
nascent vapor nuclei ready to grow into the world.
There are a number of correlation models for this stability line of
TONB.
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Bergles and Rohsenow (1964) obtained an equation for the wall
superheat required for the onset of subcooled boiling.
6.
7. Subcooled Boiling
• The onset of nucleate boiling indicates the location where the vapor can first
exist in a stable state on the heater surface without condensing or vapor
collapse.
• As more energy is input into the liquid (i.e., downstream axially) these vapor
bubbles can grow and eventually detach from the heater surface and enter the
liquid.
• Onset of nucleate boiling occurs at an axial location before the bulk liquid is
saturated.
• The point where the vapor bubbles could detach from the heater surface would
also occur at an axial location before the bulk liquid is saturated.
• This axial length over which boiling occurs when the bulk liquid is subcooled
is called the "subcooled boiling" length.
• This region may be large or small in actual size depending on the fluid
properties, mass flow rate, pressures and heat flux.
• It is a region of inherent nonequilibrium where the flowing mass quality and
vapor void fraction are non-zero and positive even though the thermodynamic
equilibrium quality and volume fraction would be zero; since the bulk
temperature is below saturation.
8. The first objective is to determine the amount of superheat
necessary to allow vapor bubble departure and then the axial
location where this would occur.
A force balance to estimate the degree of superheat necessary for
bubble departure.
In this conceptual model the bubble radius rB, is assumed to be
proportional to the distance to the tip of the vapor bubble,YB ,
away from the heated wall.
One can then calculate this distance
9.
10. Two-Phase Flow Boiling Heat Transfer
Coefficient
• The local two-phase flow boiling heat transfer coefficient
for evaporation inside a tube, hz, is defined as:
sat
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T
T
q
h
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where q” corresponds to the local heat flux from the tube wall
into the fluid,
Tsat is the local saturation temperature at the local saturation
pressure psat
Tww is the local wall temperature at the axial position along the
evaporator tube, assumed to be uniform around the perimeter of
the tube.
11. Models for Heat Transfer Coefficient
• Flow boiling models normally consider two heat transfer
mechanisms to be important.
• Nucleate boiling heat transfer ( hnb )
• The bubbles formed inside a tube may slide along the
heated surface due to the axial bulk flow, and hence the
microlayer evaporation process underneath the growing
bubbles may also be affected.
• Convective boiling heat transfer ( hcb )
• Convective boiling refers to the convective process
between the heated wall and the liquid-phase.
12. Superposition of Two Mechanisms
• power law format, typical of superposition of two thermal
mechanisms upon one another:
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Nucleate Boiling
n=1
n=2
n=3
n=∞
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13. Correlations for Two-phase Nucleate Flow Boiling
• Chen Correlation
• Shah Correlation
• Gungor-Winterton Correlations
• Steiner-Taborek Asymptotic Model
14. Chen Correlation
• Chen (1963, 1966) proposed the first flow boiling correlation for
evaporation in vertical tubes to attain widespread use.
• The local two-phase flow boiling coefficient htp is to be the
weighted sum of the nucleate boiling contribution hnb and the
convective contribution hcb
• The temperature gradient in the liquid near the tube wall is steeper
under forced convection conditions, relative to that in nucleate
pool boiling.
• The convection partially suppresses the nucleation of boiling sites
and hence reduced the contribution of nucleate boiling.
• On the other hand, the vapor formed by the evaporation process
increased the liquid velocity and hence the convective heat
transfer contribution tends to be increased relative to that of
single-phase flow of the liquid.
15. • Formulation of an expression to account for these two
effects:
cb
nb
tp h
F
h
S
h
• where the nucleate pool boiling correlation of Forster and
Zuber is used to calculate the nucleate boiling heat transfer
coefficient, FZ ;
• the nucleate boiling suppression factor acting on hnb is S;
• the turbulent flow correlation of Dittus-Boelter (1930) for
tubular flows is used to calculate the liquid-phase convective
heat transfer coefficient,
• L ; and the increase in the liquid-phase convection due to the
two-phase flow is given by his two-phase multiplier F. The
16. Forster-Zuber correlation gives the nucleate pool boiling
coefficient as:
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17. The liquid-phase convective heat transfer coefficient hL is given
by the Dittus-Boelter (1930) correlation for the fraction of
liquid flowing alone in a tube of internal diameter d i , i.e. using
a mass velocity of liquid, as:
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where the Martinelli parameter X tt
is used for the two-phase effect on
convection.
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21. Steiner-Taborek Asymptotic Model
• Natural limitations to flow boiling coefficients.
• Steiner and Taborek (1992) stated that the following limits
should apply to evaporation in vertical tubes:
• For heat fluxes below the threshold for the onset of
nucleate boiling (q’’ <q’’ONB ), only the convective
contribution should be counted and not the nucleate boiling
contribution.
• For very large heat fluxes, the nucleate boiling contribution
should dominate.
• When x = 0, htp should be equal to the single-phase liquid
convective heat transfer coefficient when q’’ <q’’ONB
22. • htp should correspond to that plus hnb when q’’ > q’’ONB .
• When x = 1.0, htp should equal the vapor-phase convective
coefficient hGt (the forced convection coefficient with the
total flow as vapor).
25. Circulation Ratio
• The circulation ratio is defined as the ratio of mixture passing through
the riser and the steam generated in it.
• The circulation rate of a circuit is not known in advance.
• The calculations are carried out with a number of assumed values of
mixture flow rate.
• The corresponding resistance in riser and down comer and motive head
are calculated.
• The flow rate at steady state is calculated.
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26. Pressure Drop in Tubes
• The pressure drop through a tube comprise several
components:friciton, entrance loss, exit loss, fitting loss and
hydrostatic.
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27. Water Wall Arrangement
• Reliability of circulation of steam-water mixture.
• Grouping of water wall tubes.
• Each group will have tubes of similar geometry & heating conditions.
• The ratio of flow area of down-comer to flow are of riser is an
important factor, RA.
• It is a measure of resistance to flow.
28. • For high capacity Steam Generators, the steam generation per unit
cross section is kept within the range.
• High pressure (>9.5 Mpa) use a distributed down-comer system.
• The water velocity in the down-comer is chosen with care.
• For controlled circulation or assisted circulation it is necessary to
install throttling orifices at the entrance of riser tubes.
• The riser tubes are divided into several groups to reduce variation in
heat absorption levels among them.
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