Scalable and Resilient Etched Metallic Micro- and Nanostructured Surfaces for Enhanced Flow Boiling

Upot, Nithin Vinod; Mahvi, Allison; Fazle Rabbi, Kazi; Li, Jiaqi; Jacobi, Anthony M.; Miljkovic, Nenad

doi:10.1021/acsanm.1c00524

Title: Scalable and Resilient Etched Metallic Micro- and Nanostructured Surfaces for Enhanced Flow Boiling

Journal Article · Mon Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · ACS Applied Nano Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c00524· OSTI ID:1805199

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Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka (Japan)

Flow boiling and evaporation in tubes and channels occur in a wide variety of energy systems, such as refrigeration, air conditioning, power generation, electronics cooling, distillation, and purification. In this work, we demonstrate remarkably increased heat transfer coefficients of 270% during refrigerant flow boiling in scalable microstructured (~40 µm), industrial-scale (~1 m long) aluminum (Al) tubes, when compared to smooth unstructured Al tubes. To achieve scalable nanomanufacturing, we create highly conformal and durable structured surfaces by relying on hydrochloric acid Al etching. Flow boiling tests were conducted in 6.35 mm diameter Al tubes using R134a refrigerant as the working fluid. To benchmark our approach and to elucidate the effect of the structure length scale, we also fabricated ultrascalable boehmite (AlO(OH)) nanostructured (~300 nm) Al tubes, showing that etched microscale features are necessary and key to enhancement. Durability tests conducted using a 28 day long continual flow boiling experiment demonstrated negligible degradation of the etched surfaces. The scalable and cost-effective techniques used to create these durable, etched-Al microstructures may significantly reduce manufacturing cost when contrasted with current enhancement approaches such as extrusion, drawing, and welding.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1805199

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-5500-79233; MainId:33459; UUID:a0b9ccbd-f3e2-484f-9cd6-e6dd9274c7e4; MainAdminID:25712

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Nano Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 7; ISSN 2574-0970

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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