Experimental Heat Transfer, Vol.17, No.2, 103-117, 2004
Investigation of boiling of refrigerating medium under conditions of impulse disturbances
This article describes investigations of bubbly boiling in flow of a refrigerating medium under conditions of impulse disturbances occurring in refrigeration engineering systems. The development and decay of boiling is induced by impulsively changing parameters, such as pressure and mass flux density, of the two-phase system in a tubular channel. It is confirmed that the two-phase systems exhibit wave properties and the induced disturbances propagate with a finite velocity. Correlations are elaborated to evaluate the propagation velocity of disturbance signals during the development and decay of boiling in a coil tube. Investigations are conducted by feeding under pressure a heat exchanger with an environment-friendly refrigerant R404A.