Heat Transfer in a Bundle Cooled with Supercritical Freon-12

Abstract

This paper focuses on analyzing experimental data on Freon-12 at a supercritical pressure of 4.65 MPa. Experiments were conducted at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering in Russia. The test section consisted of a pressure tube, ceramic inserts, a hexagonal flow tube and a vertical 7-element bundle installed inside the flow tube. The seven elements of the bundle were made of stainless steel and had an outer diameter of 9.5 mm and a heated length of one meter. Bulk-fluid temperature of the coolant at the inlet and the outlet of the test section and the temperature profile of the central heated element were recorded using thermocouples. For comparison, bulk-fluid, and sheath temperature profiles were calculated using various correlations and results were compared with the experimental values.