Abstract
Experimental studies on critical heat flux (CHF) have been conducted in a uniformly heated horizontal straight tube and helically-coiled tube respectively with R-134a as the working fluid. The helically-coiled tube has the same heated length and inner diameter with the straight tube and experiments were performed under the following conditions: pressure from 0.4 to 2.5 MPa, mass flux values from 80 to 1500 kg m-2 s-1, inlet quality from -0.23 to 0.28 and critical quality from 0.65 to 0.86. The CHF data of the helically-coiled tube have been compared with that of the straight tube. The results show that the helically-coiled tube gets significant improvement in the CHF values vs. the straight tube under the same conditions and the degree of improvement depends on the mass flux, system pressure, inlet quality and critical quality.
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