The addition of additives to the water is known to enhance boiling heat transfer. In the present investigation, boiling heat transfer coefficients are measured for Nichrome wire, immersed in saturated water with & without additive. An additive used is 2-Ethyl 1-Hexanol with varying concentrations in the range of 10-10000 ppm. Extensive experimentation of pool boiling is carried out above the critical heat flux. Boiling behavior i.e. bubble dynamics are observed at higher heat flux for nucleate boiling of water over wide ranges of concentration of additive in water. Results are encouraging and show that a small amount of surface active additive makes the nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient considerably higher, and that there is an optimum additive (500-1000ppm) concentration for higher heat fluxes. An optimum level of enhancement is observed up to a certain amount of additive 500-1000ppm in the tested range. Thereafter significant enhancement is not observed. This enhancement may be due to change in thermo-physical properties i.e. mainly due to a reduction in surface tension of water in the presence of additive.
In this paper, effect of nucleation site size on bubble dynamics during nucleate pool boiling heat transfer in saturated water is studied experimentally. Single bubble was generated using right angle tip of a hypodermic needle as a nucleation site. The hypodermic needles were used of inner diameters 0.413mm, 0.514mm, and 0.603 mm with a constant depth of 25mm. The bubble dynamics was studied using SONY Cyber-shot DSC-H100 camera operating at 30 frames per second at atmospheric pressure and at a wall superheat of 5K. The results show that, bubble diameter, bubble height and bubble volume increases with increase in diameter of nucleation site. The bubble growth period is found to be dependent on nucleation site size, and it decreases with increase in diameter of nucleation site. This happens because as volume of vapor bubble increases, buoyancy force starts dominates the capillary force and bubble detaches earlier. Effect of nucleation site size on bubble departure diameter and bubble release frequency is also discussed.
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