Abstract
A review of recent investigation on boiling of saturated liquids over plain and enhanced tube bundles has been carried out taking the earlier review works as reference point. The experimental observations of various geometry and performance parameters studied by researchers are analyzed keeping current demand of industries in design and development of compact, efficient heat exchanging devices. The study shows that tube spacing plays an important role in determination of compactness of the heat exchanger.
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Abbreviations
- b:
-
Constants in equation
- B:
-
Scaling factor in equation
- CA :
-
Factors in the Eq. (2)
- Cq :
-
Factors in the Eq. (2)
- csf :
-
Constant depending on type of surface
- D:
-
Diameter of the tube (mm)
- Db :
-
Bubble diameter (mm)
- Fp :
-
Pressure correction factor
- Fb :
-
Bundle boiling factor
- G:
-
Mass flux (kg/s m2)
- HTC:
-
Heat transfer coefficient
- h:
-
Heat transfer coefficient (W/m2 K)
- L:
-
Length of the tube (mm)
- Lfg :
-
Latent heat of vapourisation
- m:
-
Mass flow rate (kg/s)
- M:
-
Molecular mass (gm)
- N:
-
Row number in the bundle
- Nu:
-
Nusselt number
- Pr :
-
Reduced pressure (Psat/Pcrit)
- Pr:
-
Prandlt number
- q:
-
Heat flux from heater surface (W/m2)
- Ra:
-
Roughness average value (μm)
- Re:
-
Reynolds number
- s:
-
Slip ratio
- U:
-
Superficial velocity
- Vo:
-
Voidage number
- x:
-
Vapor quality
- YIB :
-
Boiling intensity parameter
- Z:
-
Convective parameter in Eq. (12)
- μ:
-
Viscosity (P)
- ε:
-
Void fraction
- ρ:
-
Density (kg/m3)
- nb:
-
Nucleate boiling
- pb:
-
Pool boiling
- cv:
-
Convection
- cb:
-
Convective boiling
- 2φ:
-
Two phase
- f:
-
Liquid phase
- g/G:
-
Vapour or gaseous phase
- ext:
-
External
- Dry:
-
Dry out condition
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Swain, A., Das, M.K. A review on saturated boiling of liquids on tube bundles. Heat Mass Transfer 50, 617–637 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-013-1257-1
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