Steady-state Experimental Study of Critical Boiling Heat Transfer on Downward Facing Surface with Pin-fin Coating Structure

Enhancing the critical heat flux (CHF) of boiling heat transfer to achieve in-vessel retention (IVR) strategy has become an urgent requirement of commercial PWR nuclear power plants’ security. A new kind of millimeter-micro multi-scale structure surface was fabricated on the surface of copper substrates by cold spraying technology, which combined pin-fin structures with porous coating structures. Steady-state pool boiling experiment was conducted on a plain copper surface and the pin-fin coating structure surface under different inclination angles. The experimental results show that the CHF increases with the inclination angles on downward facing surface, compared with the plain surface, the pin-fin coating structure enhances the CHF more than 63%, which testifies its superior engineering application prospects.