Pressure influence on film boiling of mixtures

Abstract

A unique experimental work was carried out to study the laws governing the cooling of subcooled water-ethanol mixtures under pressures up to 0.5 MPa. The great intensification of quenching was recorded with increasing pressure and mass fraction of water in ethanol. At some conditions the transition temperature to the intensive boiling regime noticeably exceeded the critical temperature of the liquid (when direct liquid-solid contact is impossible).