BOILING AND NONBOILING HEAT-TRANSFER TO ELECTROLYTE-SOLUTIONS

Heat transfer to electrolyte solutions is a common engineering problem in the chemical and petrochemical industries. Nevertheless. only a fe w experimental investigations of heat transfer to electrolyte solution s can be found in the literature. To improve design of heat transfer e quipment and to understand fouling characteristics, it is important to know the clean heat transfer coefficient of electrolyte solutions, an d whether heat transfer to electrolyte solutions can be predicted with models found for less complicated fluids. A wide range of experiments were performed to determine the effects of various dissolved salts on forced-convective. pool boiling, and subcooled flow-boiling hear tran sfer The effect of dissolved salts on bubble size and nucleation site density were also investigated. The measured heat transfer coefficient s are compared with recommended correlations for the different heat tr ansfer modes.