Experimental investigation of heat transfer in vertical upward and downward supercritical CO2 flow in a circular tube
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- Title
- Experimental investigation of heat transfer in vertical upward and downward supercritical CO2 flow in a circular tube
- Authors
- Kim, DE; Kim, MH
- Date Issued
- 2011-02
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
- Abstract
- An experimental investigation of turbulent heat transfer in vertical upward and downward supercritical CO2 flow was conducted in a circular tube with an inner diameter of 4.5 mm. The experiments were performed for bulk fluid temperatures from 29 to 115 degrees C, pressures from 74.6 to 102.6 bar, local wall heat fluxes from 38 to 234 kW/m(2), and mass fluxes from 208 to 874 kg/m(2) s. At a moderate wall heat flux and low mass flux, the wall temperature had a noticeable peak value for vertical upward flow, but increased monotonically along the flow direction without a peak value for downward flow. The ratios of the experimental Nusselt number to the value obtained from a reference correlation were compared with Bo(*) and q(*) distributions to observe the buoyancy and flow-acceleration effects on heat transfer. In the experimental range of this study, the flow acceleration predominantly affected the heat-transfer phenomena. Based on an analysis of the shear-stress distribution in the turbulent boundary layer and the significant variation of the specific heat across the turbulent boundary layer, a new heat-transfer correlation for vertical upward and downward flow of supercritical pressurized fluid was developed; this correlation agreed with various experimental datasets within +/- 30%. (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- Keywords
- Supercritical CO2; Local heat transfer; Buoyancy; Flow acceleration; Correlation; CARBON-DIOXIDE; REVERSE TRANSITION; MIXED CONVECTION; MINI-TUBE; TURBULENT; PRESSURES; REGION
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/24980
- DOI
- 10.1016/J.IJHEATFLUIDFLOW.2010.09.001
- ISSN
- 0142-727X
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND FLUID FLOW, vol. 32, no. 1, page. 176 - 191, 2011-02
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