Enhanced Boiling with Selective Placement of Nucleation Sites

    公开(公告)号:US20170176114A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-22

    申请号:US15305020

    申请日:2015-05-18

    IPC分类号: F28F13/18

    摘要: A heat transfer system includes a substrate having a heat exchange region including a surface having an enhancement region including alternating regions of selectively placed plurality of nucleation sites and regions lacking selectively placed nucleation sites, such that bubble formation and departure during boiling of a liquid in contact with the enhancement region induces liquid motion over the surface of the regions lacking selectively placed nucleation sites sufficient to enhance both critical heat flux and heat transfer coefficient at the critical heat flux in the enhancement region of the system.

    HEAT TRANSFER SYSTEM INCLUDING TUBING WITH NUCLEATION BOILING SITES

    公开(公告)号:US20170131040A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-11

    申请号:US15283580

    申请日:2016-10-03

    IPC分类号: F28F1/42 F28F13/18 F24F6/18

    摘要: A heat transfer system includes a steam chamber that communicates in an open-loop arrangement with a first steam source for supplying steam to the steam chamber, the steam chamber including a steam exit for supplying steam to air at atmospheric pressure. A heat transfer tube communicates in a closed-loop arrangement with a second steam source for supplying steam to an interior surface of the heat transfer tube, the heat transfer tube vaporizing condensate forming within the heat transfer system back to steam that is supplied to the air via the steam exit. The outer surface of the heat transfer tube is configured to contact the condensate and vaporize the condensate back into steam, wherein the heat transfer tube includes a plurality of pockets formed on the outer surface of the tube, each pocket including a pocket exit/entry portion having a smaller cross-sectional area than the cross-sectional area of the pocket at a root portion thereof adjacent the outer surface of the tube.