SUN Shuo, HU Haitao, DING Guoliang, et al. Influence of metal foams on two-phase pressure drop of R410A flow boiling in circular tubes[J]. CIESC Journal, 2012, (11): 3428-3433.
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SUN Shuo, HU Haitao, DING Guoliang, et al. Influence of metal foams on two-phase pressure drop of R410A flow boiling in circular tubes[J]. CIESC Journal, 2012, (11): 3428-3433.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0438-1157.2012.11.007.
Influence of metal foams on two-phase pressure drop of R410A flow boiling in circular tubes
The two-phase pressure drop characteristics of R410A flow boiling inside tubes filled with metal foams were investigated experimentally.The test sections are two tubes of 13.8 mm inner diameter filled with 5 PPI/95% porosity and 10 PPI/95% porosity metal foams separately.Experimental conditions include saturation pressure of 995 kPa
mass flux from 30 to 90 kg穖-2穝-1
heat flux from 5.9 to 16.5 kW穖-2
and inlet vapor quality from 0.175 to 0.775.The experimental results are as follows.Metal foams always increase the pressure drop of flow boiling
and the pressure drop reaches 56 kPa穖-1 at vapor quality of 0.775 and mass flux of 90 kg穖-2穝-1. The pressure drop increases with the value of PPI
and the pressure drop with 10 PPI metal foams can be as much as 1.2 times that with 5 PPI metal foams under the same working condition.A pressure drop correlation for the 13.8 mm tube filled with metal foams was developed based on the experimental data
and 90% of the predicted results agree with the experimental data within a deviation of ?15%.