A closed loop spray cooling system with R134a refrigerant was designed
and experiments of cooling performance were conducted to make a deep study on high heat flux phase change spray cooling mechanism. The experiments were conducted at the spray height of 13 mm
the spray chamber pressure of 0.2 MPa and the inlet temperature of 0 ℃. The range of flow rate was from 0.210 7 L/min to 0.355 8 L/min. The results show that the heat flux increases steadily with an increase in the power input when the flow rate keeps unchanged. Moreover
the heat transfer coefficient rises rapidly first and then fall1. The heat flux has an increasing trend when the flow rate increases form 0.210 7 L/min to 0.355 8 L/min
and the maximum heat flux wit
h value 94.75 W/cm
2
is obtained when the flow rate is 0.355 8 L/min. Meanwhile
the spray cooling surface temperature keeps at 35.42 ℃. The results of experiments indicate that R134a has a stable heat cooling capacity as a spray cooling refrigerant and meets the requirement of high heat flux with low temperature of cooling surface.
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