Review of pool and flow boiling heat transfer enhancement through surface modification

Abstract

Boiling is the most significant phase change phenomena for various applications such as cooling of electronic devices, heat pipes, cooling in nuclear reactor, different industrial application and plenty more. Due to its wide scope of application, any enhancement in this domain leads to remarkable economic and energy efficient consequences. Augmentations in boiling heat transfer performance are very crucial which establishes the various industrial applications further energy efficient. To reduce the energy dissipation in heat transfer equipment, boiling heat transfer augmentation is one of the significant techniques used by researchers. This paper demonstrates a thorough review and investigation of published articles describing the various surface modification method (nanomaterial coating, nano/micro porous coating, nano/micro structured surface) for pool boiling and flow boiling heat transfer enhancement as well as the effect of surface modification on wettability, porosity, surface roughness, nucleation sites are studied. Various augmentation methods are utilized to attain three apparent heat transfer desire: reducing wall superheat temperature, enhancing pool boiling heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and improving critical heat flux (CHF).