Detailed Description
In view of the deficiencies in the prior art, the inventor of the present invention has made extensive studies and extensive practices to propose a technical solution of the present invention, wherein the device has a unique structure with small size, modularization and compact design, and can simultaneously satisfy the steady-state testing conditions of pure steam and controllable content of extremely low non-condensable gas, and the device mainly comprises a double-boiler steam generation unit, a condensation testing unit and a condensation pressure drop unit. The content of extremely low non-condensable gas in a system is accurately controlled or the non-condensable gas is removed through the communication design of a main heating boiler and an auxiliary heating boiler of the double-boiler steam generation unit; the condensation test unit can realize the collection of condensation heat transfer data and condensation mass transfer phenomena; the condensation pressure drop unit ensures that the steam in the system flows in a stable state, reduces heat loss through being directly connected with the condensation test unit, and is provided with a vacuum connecting port so as to be convenient for controlling the vacuum degree of the whole system. The technical solution, its implementation and principles, etc. will be further explained as follows.
As an aspect of the technical solution of the present invention, it relates to a condensation heat transfer performance characterization apparatus, which includes:
the double-boiler steam generation unit is at least used for heating the liquid working medium and comprises a main heating mechanism and an auxiliary heating mechanism;
the condensation testing unit is at least used for condensing gaseous liquid working media and comprises a condensation shell, wherein a heat insulation assembly, a condensation testing piece and a cooling circulation channel are arranged in the condensation shell, one side of the condensation shell and the heat insulation assembly are surrounded to form a condensation cavity, the condensation testing piece is arranged in the center of the heat insulation assembly, the surface of the condensation testing piece is exposed in the condensation cavity, the condensation cavity is communicated with the double-boiler steam generating unit, and the condensation unit is vertically arranged;
and the condensation pressure drop unit is communicated with the condensation testing unit and a vacuum unit and is at least used for controlling the steady-state flow and the vacuum degree of the steam in the whole device.
In some embodiments, the double-boiler steam generation unit comprises a main heating mechanism, an auxiliary heating mechanism, a first temperature control mechanism, a second temperature control mechanism and a temperature sensing mechanism, wherein a vacuum connection assembly is arranged between the main heating mechanism and the auxiliary heating mechanism, the main heating mechanism is connected with the first temperature control mechanism, and the auxiliary heating mechanism is connected with the second temperature control mechanism.
Further, the main heating mechanism may be a main heating boiler, the auxiliary heating mechanism may be an auxiliary heating boiler, the first temperature control mechanism may be a main heating boiler temperature controller, and the second temperature control mechanism may be an auxiliary heating boiler temperature controller, but is not limited thereto.
Furthermore, the double-boiler steam generation unit consists of a main heating boiler, an auxiliary heating boiler, a temperature sensor, a main heating boiler temperature controller, an auxiliary heating boiler temperature controller and a middle vacuum connecting valve, wherein the auxiliary heating boiler is used for boiling a working medium in advance to remove non-condensable gas, the main heating boiler which is connected with the condensation chamber into a whole is vacuumized in advance to accurately control the content of the non-condensable gas, and the non-condensable gas is removed or reserved according to the test requirement in a certain proportion; the main heating boiler is arranged below the condensation testing unit and is directly connected with the condensation testing unit through the modular standard vacuum interface, so that heat loss in testing is reduced, steam circulation is facilitated, and condensate liquid efficiently flows back.
The invention can accurately control the content of extremely low non-condensable gas in the system or eliminate the non-condensable gas through the communication design of the main heating boiler and the auxiliary heating boiler in the double-boiler steam generation unit.
In some embodiments, the condensation test unit is disposed above the main heating mechanism, and can realize collection of condensation heat transfer data and condensation mass transfer phenomena.
In some embodiments, the condensation chamber has a plurality of connection ports respectively connected to the dual boiler steam generation unit and the condensation pressure drop unit, at least for vertically arranging the surface of the condensation test piece. The condensing unit is connected with the main heating mechanism through a standard vacuum interface, so that the test surface is convenient to be in the vertical direction.
Furthermore, the condensation test unit consists of a cylindrical stainless steel metal shell, a front quartz glass observation window, a middle heat-insulation Teflon support block, a condensation test piece and a back cooling water circulation channel. Wherein, a temperature sensor and a pressure sensor are arranged in the condensation testing module and used for collecting related data such as steam temperature, pressure in the cavity, temperature of a condensation testing piece and the like in real time.
Furthermore, the condensation test unit is provided with 3 vacuum standard interfaces for changing the connection mode with the double-boiler steam generation unit and the condensation pressure drop unit, so that the condensation test unit is vertically arranged.
In some embodiments, the condensing unit further comprises:
the temperature sensing mechanism is at least used for measuring the steam temperature in the condensation chamber and the temperature of a condensation test piece;
a pressure sensing mechanism at least for measuring the pressure in the condensation chamber; and the number of the first and second groups,
and the visual observation mechanism is arranged at the corresponding position of the observation window arranged on the condensation shell.
Further, the cooling circulation passage communicates with a cooling medium, which communicates with the condensation housing through a cooling circulation mechanism.
Furthermore, the visual observation mechanism comprises a camera component and a light source, wherein the camera component is at least used for observing the condensate morphology of the gaseous liquid working medium on the surface of the condensation test piece and the dynamic behavior of the liquid drops, and the condensation heat transfer effect is evaluated by combining test data.
Further, the image pickup assembly may be a high-speed microscope, but is not limited thereto.
Furthermore, the visual observation mechanism consists of a high-speed microscope and an external light source and is arranged in front of an observation window arranged on the condensation shell.
Furthermore, the condensation test unit is provided with a large-size visual observation window, and the dynamic behavior of the condensate on the surface of the condensation test piece can be observed by using a high-speed microscope.
Further, the condensation shell includes a stainless steel shell, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the insulation assembly includes, but is not limited to, a teflon insulation block.
Further, the inside hollow thermal-insulated teflon supporter of condensation test unit carries out thermal-insulated protection to cylinder condensation test piece, makes the interior temperature distribution of condensation test piece wherein embedding accord with one-dimensional axial steady state heat-conduction, and wherein condensation test piece lateral wall sets up 4 equidistance apertures to axial direction center along the heat flow direction is perpendicular, gathers temperature data in real time through embedding thermocouple, calculates and obtains sample surface temperature.
Furthermore, a condensation chamber is formed by the condensation shell (such as a stainless steel shell) and the middle cavity of the Teflon heat insulation block, and is clamped by the shell of the cooling chamber at the other side to form an integral sealing system; the condensation test piece is embedded in the center of the Teflon heat insulation block and comprises a thermocouple jack; the steam in the condensation chamber is condensed on the surface of the condensation test piece, and the steam is generated by the main heating mechanism and directly enters the condensation chamber for condensation.
Furthermore, an absolute pressure transmitter and a temperature probe are installed in the condensation testing unit, so that the steam in the condensation cavity can meet the testing requirements.
In some embodiments, the condensation test piece has a condensation surface exposed in the condensation chamber and a back surface heat-radiating fin in contact with a cooling medium in a cooling circulation passage (e.g., connected to a cooling water tank).
In some embodiments, the temperature sensing mechanism comprises a plurality of thermocouples, and the thermocouples are arranged to intersect with the central axis of the interior of the condensation test piece perpendicularly. Four thermocouples are used for real-time temperature monitoring to ensure that the actual temperature of the condensing surface can be accurately reflected.
Further, the liquid working medium may be water, and correspondingly, the formed steam is water vapor, but is not limited thereto.
Further, the condensation test piece includes a silicon wafer, copper, stainless steel, aluminum, or the like, but is not limited thereto.
In some embodiments, the condensation pressure drop unit is disposed above and in communication with the condensation chamber, and the condensation pressure drop unit includes a condensation line (e.g., a condensation coil), a cooling medium, and a circulation component (e.g., a cooling circulator).
The condensation pressure drop unit is positioned above the condensation test unit and is directly connected with the condensation test unit, so that the connecting pipeline between the condensation test unit and the condensation test unit is effectively shortened, the heat loss is reduced, the stable circulation flow of steam is realized by controlling the temperature of circulating cold water inside the condensation test unit, and meanwhile, the vacuum connecting assembly (such as a vacuum pipeline connector) is arranged on the condensation pressure drop unit and is directly connected with vacuum pumping equipment, so that the accurate control of the vacuum degrees in the condensation cavity and the main boiler is facilitated.
Further, the invention realizes the steady-state control of the steam with different temperatures by controlling the heating power of the main heating boiler and the temperature of the condensation pressure drop unit.
Further, the temperature control of the condensation pressure drop unit and the back of the condensation test unit is realized by adjusting the temperature of the circulating cold water and the flow rate of the cold water through the cooling circulator.
Further, the condensation pressure drop unit is communicated with the vacuum unit (for example, a vacuum pump) through a vacuum connecting assembly.
Furthermore, the vacuum degree in the device can be accurately controlled by a vacuum oil pump or a vacuum pump set, the vacuum equipment is connected with the standard vacuum interface of the condensation pressure drop unit so as to meet the test requirements under different vacuum degrees, and in addition, a low-temperature cold trap can be added at the front end of the vacuum pump set according to the test requirements to protect the vacuum pump set.
In some embodiments, the device for characterizing condensation heat transfer performance further comprises a data acquisition and monitoring unit, which is at least used for acquiring, monitoring and processing the temperature of the condensation test piece, the temperature of the steam in the condensation chamber, the pressure in the condensation chamber and the temperature of the liquid working medium in the double-boiler steam generation unit.
Furthermore, the data acquisition monitoring unit further comprises a computer (PC), which is respectively connected with the first temperature control mechanism, the second temperature control mechanism, the temperature sensing mechanism and the pressure sensing mechanism and is at least used for monitoring and processing the acquired data.
Furthermore, the sealing performance of the whole system is characterized before the experiment begins, so that the system is ensured to be airtight; the vacuum unit is used for pre-removing the non-condensable gas in the whole system and accurately controlling the amount of the non-condensable gas in the system before testing.
Furthermore, the invention is suitable for the representation of the plane condensation effect in various steam environments, such as water vapor; the method is suitable for evaluating the condensation effect of various materials, such as silicon wafers, copper, stainless steel, aluminum and the like.
In conclusion, the invention provides a miniaturized, compact and modularized condensation heat transfer performance characterization device, which can reduce heat loss to the maximum extent, can simultaneously meet the steady-state test conditions of controllable contents of pure steam and extremely low non-condensable gas, and can obtain condensation heat transfer performance and mass transfer performance under the working conditions of pure steam and extremely low non-condensable gas of different samples.
The condensation heat transfer performance testing device is simple to operate, and the content of non-condensable gas in a system can be accurately controlled through the heating modules of the double boilers.
The technical solutions of the present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to several preferred embodiments and accompanying drawings, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without any inventive step based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1, a condensation heat transfer performance characterization apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention mainly includes a dual-boiler steam generation unit, a condensation test unit, a condensation pressure drop unit, a vacuum unit, a visual observation mechanism, and a data acquisition and monitoring unit.
The steam generation unit includes main heating boiler 12, assists heating boiler 10, temperature sensor, main heating boiler temperature controller 13, assists heating boiler temperature controller 9 and vacuum connecting valve 11, main heating boiler temperature controller 13 is connected with main heating boiler 12, assist heating boiler temperature controller 9 and assist heating boiler 10 and be connected. Working medium is boiled in the auxiliary heating boiler 10 in advance, is subjected to degassing treatment and then enters the main heating boiler 12 through the middle connection vacuum connecting valve 11, and the upper end of the main heating boiler 12 is connected with the condensation testing unit.
The condensation test unit is used for condensing gaseous state liquid working medium, and it includes the condensation casing, be provided with Teflon insulating block 16 and condensation test piece 21 in the condensation casing, condensation casing one side encloses with thermal-insulated subassembly and establishes and form condensation cavity 17, the condensation test piece set up in thermal-insulated subassembly center, and condensation test piece surface expose in the condensation cavity, condensation cavity and two boiler steam generation unit intercommunication, and, the condensation test unit is perpendicular setting.
The condensation testing unit comprises a cylindrical stainless steel metal shell, a Teflon heat insulation block 16 in the middle, a condensation testing piece 21, a back cooling circulation channel 2, a front quartz glass observation window 18, a temperature sensor 19 and a pressure sensor 22, wherein the condensation testing piece 21 is embedded into the Teflon heat insulation block 16 to ensure one-dimensional axial stable heat conduction, the temperature sensor 19 records steam temperature data in a condensation chamber 17 in real time, the pressure sensor 22 records pressure data in the condensation chamber 17 in real time, and a high-speed microscope 20 is arranged in front of the quartz glass observation window 18.
The cooling circulation channel 2 is sequentially connected with a cooling water tank 1, a cooling circulator 14 and a cooling circulator control valve 15, and the cooling circulator control valve 15 is communicated with the condensation test unit. The temperature of the circulating cooling water is controlled to cool the condensation test piece, and the cooling water rapidly flows through the radiating fins on the back of the test interface in a limited mode to reach the required wall surface temperature.
The condensation pressure drop unit contains built-in condensing coil 6, cooling trough 3, cooling cycle machine 4, vacuum pipe joint 5, condensation pressure drop unit is located condensation test unit top, with condensation test unit lug connection, effectively shortens connecting tube between it and condensation test unit and reduces heat loss, realizes steam steady state circulation through the temperature of its inside circulation cold water of control, is provided with vacuum pipe joint on it simultaneously, directly links to each other with vacuum pump suction equipment, is convenient for carry out accurate control to condensation chamber and the inside vacuum of main heating boiler.
The vacuum unit ensures that the whole system is in a vacuum state, and comprises a vacuum pump 7 which is connected with the vacuum pipeline joint 5.
The data acquisition monitoring unit comprises a condensation test piece temperature acquisition unit, a condensation chamber steam temperature and pressure data acquisition unit, a steam generation unit liquid working medium temperature acquisition unit, and a data acquisition unit 8 connected with a PC computer for acquiring, monitoring and processing data.
The method for characterizing the condensation heat transfer performance by adopting the device comprises the following steps:
vacuumizing the device by using a vacuum unit, wherein the vacuum unit is at least used for removing non-condensable gas in the device;
adding a liquid working medium into the double-boiler steam generation unit, and heating to boil the liquid working medium;
enabling the gaseous liquid working medium to enter a condensation chamber to be in contact with a condensation surface of a condensation test piece, and simultaneously cooling the condensation test piece by adopting a cooling circulation channel;
a condensation pressure drop unit is adopted to control the steady-state flow and the vacuum degree of steam in the whole device;
observing the appearance of condensate of the gaseous liquid working medium on the surface of the condensation test piece and the dynamic behavior of liquid drops through a visual observation structure; and the number of the first and second groups,
the data acquisition monitoring unit is used for acquiring, monitoring and processing the temperature of a condensation test piece, the temperature of steam in a condensation chamber, the pressure in the condensation chamber and the temperature of a liquid working medium in the double-boiler steam generation unit, so that the characterization of the condensation heat transfer performance of a functional interface is realized.
Example 1
The device is used for a pure steam condensation heat exchange experiment, and the technical scheme is as follows: firstly, a vacuum connecting valve 11 between a main heating boiler 12 and an auxiliary heating boiler 10 of a steam generation unit is closed, a vacuum pipeline joint 5 on a condensation pressure drop unit is opened, a vacuum pump 7 is started to vacuumize a system, non-condensable gas in the system is removed, deionized water is added into the auxiliary heating boiler 10 of the steam generation unit, heating and boiling are carried out for 30min, and the water temperature is reduced to a preset steam temperature value. After the vacuum is pumped to the limit of the vacuum pump, the vacuum pipeline joint 5 is closed, the vacuum connecting valve 11 between the main heating boiler 12 and the auxiliary heating boiler 10 of the steam generation unit is opened, water enters the main heating boiler 12, and the vacuum connecting valve 11 is closed. And (4) turning on a heating control power supply of the main heating boiler, and simultaneously turning on cooling water circulation at the back of the condensation test unit. After the parameters such as pressure, steam temperature and the like are stable, the cooling water circulation of the condensation pressure drop unit is started, so that the pressure and the steam temperature are kept stable. And analyzing and evaluating the heat transfer performance of the functional interface through data acquisition and phenomenon recording.
Example 2
The technical scheme is that the device is used for a steam condensation heat exchange experiment containing air and comprises the following steps: firstly, a vacuum connecting valve 11 between a main heating boiler 12 and an auxiliary heating boiler 10 of a steam generation unit is closed, a vacuum pipeline joint 5 on a condensation pressure drop unit is opened, a vacuum pump 7 is started to vacuumize a system, deionized water is added into the auxiliary heating boiler 10 of the steam generation unit after the system is vacuumized to a preset vacuum degree, heating and boiling are carried out for 30min, and the temperature of water is reduced to a preset steam temperature value. After the vacuum is pumped to the limit of the vacuum pump, the vacuum pipeline joint 5 is closed, the vacuum connecting valve 11 between the main heating boiler 12 and the auxiliary heating boiler 10 of the steam generation unit is opened, water enters the main heating boiler 12, and the vacuum connecting valve 11 is closed. And (4) turning on a heating control power supply of the main heating boiler, and simultaneously turning on cooling water circulation at the back of the condensation test unit. After the parameters such as pressure, steam temperature and the like are stable, the cooling water circulation of the condensation pressure drop unit is started, so that the pressure and the steam temperature are kept stable. The percentage of air in the mixed gas is obtained through calculation, and by applying the technical scheme, the research on the steam condensation heat transfer characteristics under different non-condensable gas contents can be realized.
It should be noted that, in the present context, an element defined by the phrase "comprising … …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in steps, processes, methods or experimental facilities including the element.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that the local structure of the experimental device can be adjusted and refined according to specific requirements, and is not listed here. Within the scope of the technical idea of the invention, many simple modifications can be made to the technical solution of the invention, including combinations of various technical features in any other suitable way, and these simple modifications and combinations should also be regarded as the disclosure of the invention, and all fall within the scope of the invention.