Experimental Study About ONB and Subcooled Boiling Heat Transfer

Water subcooled boiling heat transfer were experimentally investigated in the vertical annuli with narrow gap. Subcooled flow boiling covers the region from the location where the bubbles forms on the wall to the location where the bulk temperature reaches saturated temperature. Three locations in the subcooled flow boiling have been identified by the earlier researcher as the onset of nucleate boiling (ONB), the beginning of fully developed boiling, the location where the thermodynamic quality is zero that is attained from the enthalpy balance equation. The heat transfer regions are identified as single-phase heat transfer prior to ONB, partial boiling (PB) and fully developed boiling (FDB). In this study, the available models for predicting heat transfer in the different regions and the modified correlation can predict our experimental data.