Measurement and Observation of Elementary Transition Boiling Process after Sudden Contact of Liquid with Hot Surface

Abstract

A Fast response surface temperature measurement technique has been developed to investigate transient transition boiling phenomena after ethanol droplet impact on a nickel hot surface. Our motivation is to make clear the mechanism of boiling transition between nucleate and film boiling which is closely related the recovery of wetting on the hot surface being higher than the Leidenfrost temperature. In this study transient boiling phenomena during sudden contact of an ethanol sessile droplet on a hot solid surface has been investigated to understand what governs whether the solid surface keeps wet or not. The droplet impact boiling system is very simple and easier to observe but it includes the elementary transition boiling process. Since the transient transition took place within a couple ten milliseconds, observation with high speed video system and fast response surface temperature measurement technique are essential for better understanding of the transition boiling phenomena. The experiments were conducted for single and multiple droplet impacts. The multiple droplet impacts simulates liquid and solid contact situations on a hot surface during spray or laminar jet quench. The nickel disk of 50 mm in diameter and 5 mm in thickness was used as the hot surface. The hot surface was inclined from 0 deg (horizontal) to 40 deg. The fast-response film thermocouple with a typical minimum response time of 80 microseconds was developed and fabricated on the nickel disk at the depth of 3 micrometers from the surface. The temperature histories just beneath the surface were recorded at the sampling frequency of 200 kHz. The boiling phenomena beneath a sessile droplet impacted on the hot surface were observed by using a microscope equipped with the high speed video camera at the maximum frame rate of 22.5 kfps. The surface temperature and surface heat flux were estimated with 1D inverse heat conduction analysis. Histories of local surface temperature and local heat flux were compared with the boiling video image. The experiments were done for different initial wall temperatures up to 250 o C, different liquid subcoolings from 33 to 53 K. The multiple impact frequency was changed from 280 to 840 Hz. 6Yuichi Mitsutake et al. / Procedia Engineering 105 ( 2015 ) 5 -21 In case of the single droplet impact tests, the observation results showed that wetting situation was maintained for very short time even though the surface temperature was beyond the liquid superheat limit temperature. We defined the vapor film generation time as the characteristic boiling transition time scale from wetted nucleation boiling regime to dry film boiling regime. The film generation time were measured for the extensive initial surface temperature range, different subcoolings and different impact velocities. As the initial surface temperature increased, the film generation time decreased to order of microsecond and film boiling situation seemed to be established via spontaneous nucleation (vapor explosion) process. In case of the multiple droplets ...

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