Pool boiling heat transfer in binary mixtures of ammonia/water

Nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficients were measured during pool boiling of the mixtures of ammonia/water on a horizontal heated wire. The experiment was carried out at pressures of 0.4 and 0.7 MPa, at heat fluxes below 2000 kW/m(2) and over all ranges of fraction. The heat transfer coefficients in the mixtures are markedly less than those in single component substances and, in particular, are dramatically deteriorated in the vicinity of both single component substances. An applicability of existing correlations to the present experimental data is discussed. As a result, it is difficult for any existing correlation to predict the coefficients over all ranges of fraction. In the mixtures of ammonia/water, heat of dilution and of dissolution are generated near a vapor-liquid interface, while vapor with a richer concentration of ammonia is condensed and then diffused into a bulk liquid; while in most other mixtures, little heat is generated during any dilution and dissolution. The effect of the heat of dilution and of dissolution on pressure and temperature in a system (pressure vessel) is shown. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.