Effect of pressure on critical heat flux for water in an internally heated annulus

It was pointed out earlier that existing CHF correlations based upon data for annuli at high pressures did not reproduce CHF very well at the atmospheric pressure. It appears to be necessary to investigate CHF at intermediate pressures to interpret the apparent discrepancy between CHFs at high and low pressures. In view of this an experiment was performed to obtain more information on CHF at intermediate pressures and the effect of pressure was discussed in the present study. It was revealed from this study that the effect of pressure on the CHF in the range from 0.1 to 1 MPa could be explained by the annular flow boundary and the critical quality. (author)