Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University ›› 2011, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (06): 861-865.

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Nucleate Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics of  Refrigerant/Oil Mixture with Diamond Nanoparticles

 ZHUANG  Da-Wei-1, PENG  Hao-2, HU  Hai-Tao-1, DING  Guo-Liang-1, ZHU  Yu-1   

  1. (1. Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China; 2. Key Laboratory of Microgravity (National Microgravity Laboratory),  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)
  • Received:2010-10-13 Online:2011-06-29 Published:2011-06-29

Abstract:  Nucleate pool boiling heat transfer characteristics of refrigerant/oil mixture with diamond nanoparticles were investigated experimentally. The refrigerant is R113 and the oil is VG68. The experimental conditions include a saturation pressure of 101.3 kPa, heat fluxes from 10 to 80 kW·m-2, nanoparticles concentrations in the nanoparticles/oil suspension from 0 to 15 %, and nanoparticles/oil suspension concentrations from 0 to 5 %. The experimental results indicate that the nucleate pool boiling heat transfer coefficient of R113/oil mixture with diamond nanoparticles is larger than that of R113/oil mixture by maximum of 63.4% under the present experimental conditions, and the enhancement increases with the increase of nanoparticles concentration in the nanoparticles/oil suspension and decreases with the increase of nanoparticles/oil suspension concentration. A correlation for predicting the nucleate pool boiling heat transfer coefficient of refrigerant/oil mixture with nanoparticles was proposed. The predicted values of the new correlation can agree with 94% of the experimental data of R113/oil mixture with diamond nanoparticles in the present study within the deviation of ±20%.

Key words: nucleate pool boiling, oil, nano-particle, refrigerant, correlation

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