| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M41001/01 |
| Title: |
FORCED CONVECTIVE BOILING OF SINGLE & MULTICOMPONENT FLUIDS AT HIGH PRESSURE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Hewitt, Professor GF |
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Chemical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
13 September 1999 |
Ends: |
12 March 2002 |
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153,505
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The proposed work is centred on the utilisation of the High Pressure Boiling Rig (HPBR) at the Harwell Science & Engineering Centre of AEA Technology plc and would be carried out in collaboration with AEA Technology. The proposed project builds on the highly successful work on the HPBR carried out under Grant GF/K21139 which has generated new and unique data on forced convective single and multicomponent boiling. In the work proposed here, modifications of the existing (25.4mm) test section are proposed to elucidate some new phenomena identified in the present project. In particular, modifications are proposed to the power supplies to allow various heat flux distribution to be investigated. Experiments will be carried out with both single and multicomponent hydrocarbon fluids. A full supporting analytical programme is proposed concentrating on non-equilibrium effects. Thermodynamic and hydrodynamic non-equilibrium effects are important in all evaporating systems. However, for multicomponent systems these are coupled to departures from component equilibrium between the phases which leads to additional effects (eg a reduction in heat transfer coeffcient with quality in forced convective). In the work proposed, a computational framework will be developed to analyse these effects.
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http://www.imperial.ac.uk |