Two-phase heat transfer and pressure drop of propane during saturated flow boiling inside a horizontal tube

Two-Phase Flow Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer Characteristics of Natural Refrigerants: Review

“…Studies on the hydrocarbon mixture and comparison of several hydrocarbons with conventional refrigerants, such as R134a and R22 have been performed. The studies on the boiling heat transfer characteristics of propane (R290) were performed by Fernando et al, 38 Pamitran et al, 39 Choi et al, 40 Maqbool et al, 41 and Wang et al 42 Fernando et al 38 measured heat transfer coe±cients of propane in a vertically mounted multi-port minichannel heat exchanger. The heat transfer coe±cients increased with increase of heat°ux and mass°ux.…”

“…The correlations of Müller-Steinhagen and Heck, and Friedel for the twophase pressure drop, and the Cooper, and the Liu and Winterton's correlations for two-phase heat transfer coe±cient well predicted the experimental data except for the dryout region. Wang et al 42 presented the experimental study of°ow boiling heat transfer and pressure drop of propane in smooth horizontal tubes. Local heat transfer coe±cients were found to increase with mass°ux and heat°ux at all test conditions.…”

Prediction of flow boiling heat transfer data for R134a, R600a and R290 in minichannels

“…Comparison between experimental and theoretical studies for R290 has also been carried by Wang et al [20]. Their studies were carried out for flow boiling of R290 in the channels with internal diameter of 6 mm.…”

Heat transfer characteristic of R-600a during flow boiling inside horizontal plain tube

“…Wang et al [10] experimentally studied two-phase heat transfer and pressure drop of propane during saturated flow boiling inside a horizontal plain tube at the conditions of mass velocities from 62-104 kg/m 2 s, heat fluxes from 11.7 to 87.1 kW/m 2 and saturation temperature from − 35 to − 1.9°C. They compared their experimental data with wellknown correlations and reported that Liu-Winterton [11] correlation predicted best their heat transfer experimental data.…”