PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT STRUCTURED SURFACES IN NUCLEATE POOL BOILING

Presented by
DATTATRAY L. BANKAR

Guided by
Prof. S. S. Kale
(Mechanical Engineering Department)

Date- 28/11/2016
 CONTENT
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Objective of Seminar
• Proposed Experimental Setup
• Case Study
• Conclusion
• References
 Introduction
• Boiling is the phase change process from liquid to vapor at
liquid-vapor interface.
• The boiling is the mode of heat transfer that involves the
growth of bubbles and its dynamics depend on temperature
excess, nature of the surface and thermo physical properties
of liquid, such as its surface tension, latent heat, etc.
• The major parameters affecting the heat transfer coefficient
under nucleate pool-boiling conditions are heat flux,
saturation pressure and thermo physical properties of a
working fluid.
 Literature Review
• S. H. Kim et al.
In this study, boiling heat transfer (BHT) and critical heat
flux (CHF) of pool boiling on well-organized micro scale
structured surfaces are strongly to be dependent on pin-fin
effects.
• A. K. Das et al.
The objective of this study is to investigate nucleate pool
boiling from horizontal surface under saturated pool boiling
conditions. Surfaces have been prepared with regular array
of discrete nucleation sites formed by micro drilling.
•  Y. Kim et al.
Pool boiling heat transfer characteristics on treated
surfaces are investigated experimentally.
• D. Zhong et al.
In the present work, saturated pool boiling heat
transfer rates and critical heat flux (CHF) are
measured on downward facing pin-fin surfaces on
downward facing (The inclination angle are
vertical) pin-fin surfaces in deionized water to
investigate the effects of inclination angle and the
pin-fin structures on the wall superheat and CHF.
• S. Mori et al.
In this study, critical heat flux (CHF) in pool boiling by
the attachment of a honeycomb structured porous plate
on a heated surface is investigated using water under
saturated pool boiling conditions.
 Objective
• The project aims at the enhancement of pool boiling
by using different structured surfaces.
• The different structured surfaces have been developed
for enhancing the heat transfer coefficient.
Proposed Experimental Setup
 Case Study
• Introduction
 Augmentation of heat transfer is one of the challenging
fields of research in thermal engineering for the last few
decades.
 Augmentation of boiling heat transfer, therefore, poses a
greater challenge. Scientists have established a number of
passive as well as active techniques for the augmentation
of boiling heat transfer.
 The modification of the boiling surface has received a
wide acceptance.
 Manufacturing of Augmented Surfaces
• In the past different manufacturing techniques have been adopted
for developing augmented surfaces. For this present work we
have selected wire-electro discharge machining (Wire-EDM or
WEDM) which is one of the versatile nontraditional machining
processes. This process enabled us to develop the surface
geometries by a single fabrication technique which is important
for development work.
• To designate surfaces with different tunnel geometries we have
devised a hex-character symbolic specification. For example;
unidirectional tunnel geometry with vertical tunnel, 3 mm pitch, 2
mm depth, 0.4 mm width and Circular base geometry is denoted
by U-90-3-2-0.4-Cir. The details of all these surfaces developed.
Various Tunnel Geometries
 Result and Discussion
• The surface with straight unidirectional parallel tunnels (U-90-
3-2-0.4-N). Results show a definite enhancement over the
plane surface. 
A surface has been developed where the parallel tunnels
 
are at an angle with the horizontal. The surface has been
tested under pool boiling condition
The performance of the surface with intersecting inclined tunnels
is presented. As expected, intersecting tunnels give a higher
degree of augmentation compared to parallel tunnels for the same
tunnel.  
The test results show a definite trend. For parallel tunnel geometry the degree of augmentation increases as one moves from
straight vertical tunnel to inclined tunnel or from straight vertical tunnel to vertical tunnel with a circular base.
 
 Conclusion
•• Surfaces
  with tunnels inclined with with horizontal shows
higher augmentation compared to tunnels at with the
horizontal. This clearly brings out the advantage of having
inclined tunnels in the augmented surfaces.
• The present work indicates that a combination of inclined
tunnel with circular groove at the tunnel base could be an
excellent option for the augmentation of boiling heat transfer.
Thank You!