Abstract

In the present study the attention was focused on the influence of reduced pressure on the predictions of heat transfer during flow boiling at the extensive range of pressures. The results of calculations were to test the sensitivity of the in-house flow boiling model with respect to the selection of the appropriate two-phase flow multiplier, which is one of the distinctive elements of that model. For this purpose a few two-phase frictional pressure drop correlations were tested. The purpose of this paper is to show that taking into account the effect of the reduced pressure in a model can be of significant importance on the predictions of heat transfer during flow boiling. In the paper are presented the results of calculations using the authors' own model to predict heat transfer coefficient during flow boiling. The model has been tested against a large selection of experimental data collected from various researchers to investigate the sensitivity of the in-house developed model. In the work are presented the results of calculations obtained using the in-house developed semi empirical model on selected experimental flow boiling data of the following refrigerants: R134a, R1234yf, R600a and CO2.

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