Surface Roughness Effects on Heat Transfer in Additively Manufactured sCO2 Cycle Heat Exchangers
- National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)
An experimental study was performed to consider the impact of surface roughness on heat transfer and pressure drop to supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) in additively manufactured channels. All tests were performed in the Heat Exchange and Experimental Testing (HEET) rig at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Morgantown, West Virginia. Four test articles were considered. The first was a hydrodynamically smooth, drawn tube. The other three were additively manufactured channels with square and rectangular cross sections, which were characterized by sand-grain roughness to hydraulic diameter ratios spanning 0.0029 to 0.0073. Friction factors were determined by measuring the tube mass flow rate and pressure drop. The tube side heat transfer coefficient was measured using the Wilson plot technique. It was found that the friction factor results were 8% greater than the Colebrook correlation. Greater deviation was observed between the heat transfer results and the correlations. The Gnielinski correlation overpredicted the experimental points by nominally 30% and the Norris correlation overpredicting the experimental points by nominally 25%. A thermal performance factor was formed from the friction factor augmentation and Nusselt number augmentation results. These results indicated a 10% improvement in heat duty for a heat exchanger constructed utilizing a tube with ϵ/D_h =0.0073 relative to a heat exchanger utilizing a smooth, conventional tube.
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- 89243318CFE000003
- OSTI ID:
- 1819281
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NETL-2021/2655
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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