Transient swelling of liquid level during pool boiling in an emergency condenser
TL;DR: In this article, a modified kettle reboiler is used as an emergency condenser for high pressure steam in nuclear power plants, where the condensing is achieved by boiling off of water at atmospheric pressure.
About: This article is published in Letters in Heat and Mass Transfer.The article was published on 1981-01-01. It has received 2 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Surface condenser & Boiling.
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TL;DR: Bubble driven fluid circulations are present in bubble columns, gas lifts, pool boiling, etc. as mentioned in this paper, and their mechanism is shown to be quite similar to the mechanism of natural covection but with much larger driving forces.
Abstract: Bubble driven fluid circulations are present in bubble columns, gas lifts, pool boiling, etc. Their mechanism is shown to be quite similar to the mechanism of natural covection but with much larger driving forces. These circulations are stable in many baffled systems but unstable and rapidly changing in size, shape, and orientation in unbaffled systems. The effect of these circulations in bubble columns is to lower holdup and vapor residence time, thus decreasing the mass transfer efficiency of the column.
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