Cryogenic Liquid Slug and Taylor Bubble Length Distributions in an Inclined Tube

An experimental study was carried out to understand the phenomena of the boiling flow of liquid nitrogen in an inclined tube with closed bottom by using a high speed motion analyzer. The experimental tube is 0.018 m ID and 1.0m in length. The range of the inclination angle is 45°-9° from the horizontal. The experiment focused on the effect of the inclination angle show that the mean liquid slug length and Taylor bubble length increase with the increasing xlD at various inclination angles. At the same x/D, the mean liquid slug length and Taylor bubble length increase first, and then decrease with decreasing inclination angles, with the maximum at 60°. In the vertical tube, standard deviation of the nitrogen Taylor bubble iength increase with the increasing xlD. For the inclined tube, standard deviation of the nitrogen Taylor bubble length increases first, and then decreases with the increasing x/D. Standard deviation of the liquid slug length increases with increasing x/D for all inclination angles.

Experimental Study on the Initial Position Distribution of Taylor Bubbles in Cryogenic Upward Inclined Tubes

An experimental study was carried out to understand the phenomena of the boiling flow of liquid nitrogen in inclined tubes with closed bottom by using the high speed digital camera.The tubes in the experiment are 0.018 m and 0.014 m in inner diameter and 1.0 m in length.The range of the inclination angles is 0-45° from the vertical.The statistical method is employed to analyze the experimental data.The experiment was focused on the effect of the inclination angle on the initial position distribution of Taylor bubbles.The formation criterion of Taylor bubbles was confirmed by analyzing the images of Taylor bubbles.The experimental results show that the initial position of Taylor bubble increased first,and then decreased with the increasing inclination angle,with the maximum at 30°.The standard deviation of the initial position of Taylor bubble in tubes was different with different inner diameters.The lognormal shape was fitted to the measured the initial position distributions of Taylor bubbles in the cryogenic tubes.

Experimental Study of Motion of Nitrogen Taylor Bubbles and Liquid Slugs in Inclined Tubes

This article studies rising velocity of Taylor bubbles and liquid slugs in liquid nitrogen at different axial positions in upward inclined tubes by means of a high speed motion analyzer. The bottom-closed tubes in the experiments are 1.0 m long with an inner diameter of 0.014 m or 0.018 m. The tube inclines upward from 0~ to 50~ with respect to the normal. Statistical method is used to analyze the data of the Taylor bubble and the liquid slug velocity. Reflecting the effects of the inclination angle on the rising velocity of Taylor bubbles and liquid slugs, the experimental results indicate the similar trend the Taylor bubble velocity and the liquid slug velocity have： it increases first, and then decreases with the increase of the inclination angle. Moreover, with the increase of the inclination angle, the liquid slug velocity becomes greater than Taylor bubble velocity.

Liquid Metal Heat Transfer in an Inclined Tube Affected by a Longitudinal Magnetic Field

This paper presents results of hydrodynamic and heat transfer investigations in liquid metal flow affected by a longitudinal magnetic field in an inclined tube with respect to tokamak cooling problem.Experimental study has been conducted for the tube with slope 1\5 to the horizon which corresponds to the conditions oflTER project in case the LM flow faced longitudinal MF.The results obtained in the regimes without the MF,may be interesting for the design of nuclear reactors cooled by LM and metallurgical processes.

Experimental Study on the Liquid Slug of Cryogenic Slug Flow in Inclined Tubes

An experimental study was carried out to understand the phenomena of the boiling flow of liquid nitrogen in inclined tubes with closed bottom by using a high speed motion analyzer.The experimental tubes are 0.018 and 0.014 m inner diameter(ID) and 1.0 m in length.The range of the inclination angle is 45°-90° from the horizontal.The experimental observation on the liquid slug was carried out along the tubes.Statistical method was employed to analyze the experimental data.The experiment analyzed the influences of the inclination angle and the tube diameter on the liquid slug length and velocity.The results show the liquid slug propagation velocity increases with the decrease of inclination angle θ.For all cases,the maximum values of the mean liquid slug lengths were obtained at θ = 60°.The mean liquid slug lengths were greater for large tube at higher tube position.These conclusions provide a basis for further study liquid slug of cryogenic two-phase undeveloped slug flow.

Experimental Investigation on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Water in Inclined Downward Tube of a Supercritical Pressure CFB Boiler

In this study, experiments have been performed for an investigation on heat transfer of water in an inclined downward tube with an inner diameter of 20 mm and an inclined angle of 45° from the horizon, with the range of pressure from 11.5 to 28 MPa, mass flux from 450 to 1550 kg/(m2 s), and heat flux from 50 to 585 k W/m2. Based on the experimental data, the temperature distribution in the tube wall was derived. The heat transfer characteristics of inclined downward flow were compared with that of vertical downward flow. The effects of heat flux on wall temperature were analyzed and the corresponding empirical correlations were presented. The results show that heat transfer characteristics of water in the inclined downward tube are not uniform along the circumference from the top surface to the bottom surface. An increase in heat flux exacerbates the non-uniformity. At subcritical pressures, both dry-out and departure from nucleate boiling(DNB) occur at the top surface of the inclined downward tube; inversely, only dry-out takes place on the bottom surface of the inclined downward tube and in the vertical downward tube. At near-critical pressures, DNB and dry-out occur in the comparing tubes with greater possibility. At supercritical pressures, heat transfer gets enhanced in the pseudo-critical enthalpy region; in the high enthalpy region, the top surface temperature of the inclined downward tube decreases obviously.