Experimental evaluation of constants for the Rohsenow pool boiling correlation

The present experimental study is concerned with heat transfer under nucleate boiling of fluids on the horizontal thick plates made from copper, aluminum, brass and stainless steel. Reported are the results of the effect of the heat flux, the saturation pressure from near atmospheric to vacuum, and the thermophysical properties of four working fluids (water, ethanol, R-113, and R-11) on the heat transfer coefficient under boiling. To quantify the effect of these parameters on the heat transfer coefficient, the Rohsenow pool boiling correlation was used with the constants from the experiment. The experimental data match the data of other investigators. Previous experimental works were analysed to evaluate the prediction intervals of the Rohsenow pool boiling correlation for different surface–fluid combinations.