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HEAT TRANSFER ENGINEERING
Volume 34, Issue 5-6, Pages 479-491Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2012.722443
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- CAPES (Brazilian Ministry of Education)
- FAPERJ (State of Rio de Janeiro Research Funding Agency)
- FAPEMIG (State of Minas Gerais Research Funding Agency)
- CNPq (Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology)
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The nucleate boiling of subcooled water, under 100 cm(2) square arrays of impinging sprays, was experimentally investigated. Three types of commercially available full cone pressure nozzles, of distinct flow capacities, allowed for runs where the average impinging coolant mass flux spanned the 0.3-7.2 kg/m(2)-s range. Array geometry was varied adjusting nozzle-to-nozzle and nozzle-to-impingement surface distances. Experimental construction allowed for good drainage of spent coolant and unrestricted air entrainment to spray cones. The average heat flux through the heated, upward-facing, copper impingement surface was found to be equal to the sum of single-phase and nucleate boiling heat flux components. The phase-change component was experimentally observed to depend upon wall excess temperature only. The proposed heat transfer correlation reproduces original experimental data with a mean absolute error of 10.6%. Non-critical-heat-flux (non-CHF) cooling capacity and efficiencies of up to, respectively, 2000 kJ/kg and 83% were observed.
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