Steam entrainment and heat transfer characteristic of steam submerged jet condensation within steam-water mixture layer

Steam-water interface and mixture layer are the key window for understanding the heat and mass transfer mechanism of steam submerged jet condensation. In this paper, the steam-water two-phase mixture layer is captured and the interfacial vortex is observed with a quasi-two-dimensional submerged steam jet visualization experimental platform. Then, the volume heat transfer capacity of steam-water mixture layer and heat transfer coefficient with steam-water inner interface are obtained. Furthermore, a new turbulent eddy entrainment model is developed to calculate the local entrainment mass rate and local condensation heat transfer coefficient. Both the local entrainment mass rate and local condensation heat transfer coefficient increases along steam jet direction, and reaches the maximum value at the tail of the mixture layer. The calculated condensation heat transfer coefficient ranges from 0.88 to 2.94 MW·m⁻²·K⁻¹, which is about the half of the value of hypothetical heat transfer coefficient with inner interfacial area.