Further Considerations of Critical Heat Flux in Saturated Pool Boiling During Power Transients

摘要

In this paper, we further evaluate our previously postulated transient CHF model. First, we verify the steady-state CHF model on which the transient model is based by using recent macrolayer-thickness data. We also include the effect of thermal storage in the heater that we previously neglected. The use of a simplified approach in the prediction of the instantaneous surface heat flux for given power generation rates considerably improves the predictive capability of the transient critical heat-flux (CHF) model. Finally, we discuss the statistical vapor mass behavior during transient boiling and its effect on the transient CHF model. We show that the data scatter within a small range may be partially explained through such an approach. (ERA citation 13:033654)