Abstract
An experimental study of pool boiling was conducted, using cylindrical heater surfaces of platinum, silicon dioxide, and aluminum oxide. They were immersed in FC-72 and R-113, saturated at 1-atm pressure. The effects of fluid and surface material on boiling incipience and on the nucleate boiling curve were investigated. A probabilistic representation was used to present the incipience wall superheat values, which scattered widely for ostensibly identical runs. The difference in incipience wall superheat values between those with FC-72 and R-113 was significant, but the surface material effect on boiling incipience was small. The surface material effect was more pronounced in the nucleate boiling regime than on the incipience process.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1032-1039 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1990 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received May 27, 1990; revised July 30, 1990. This work was supported by a grant from the Commercial Chemicals Division, 3M Company, by the AMOCO Foundation, and by an AT&T equipment grant. This paper was presented at the Second Intersociety Conference on Thermal Phenomena Electronic Systems, Las Vegas, NV, May 23-25, 1990.