DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7985771
title: Visualization of adiabatic gas-liquid flow in a cross-corrugated plate heat exchanger channel: Part 1 - Original photographs, uniform two-phase distribution

description: These measurement data are obtained and analyzed as part of a research project on adiabatic gas-liquid flow in a cross-corrugated plate heat exchanger channel. (See list of publications below). <br> The following Creative Commons license applies to the research data (images and measurement values) uploaded to the online repositories:<br> CC-BY 4.0<br> Author: Susanne Buscher The measurement data is published in 2 data sets: Data set I: Original image data (4 parts): <br> - uniform gas injection, part 1: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7985771; <br> - uniform gas injection, part 2: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7986374; <br> - uniform gas injection, part 3: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7986384; <br> - non-uniform gas injection (part 4): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8067163<br> This data set contains the original photographs of the two-phase flow in the cross-corrugated channel obtained with a high-resolution camera. In addition, the corresponding experimental parameters and flow patterns (for part 1-3 only) are included in the CSV files.<br> For uniform and non-uniform gas injection, respectively, the images were stored in sequentially numbered folders. The numbers of the folders correspond to the numbers of the measurement points listed in the attached CSV files with the associated experimental parameters.<br> The image folders are grouped in ZIP archives. Each ZIP archive contains the single-phase reference images which can be used for the two-phase images to conduct background subtraction, because the lighting conditions are equal for all images in one ZIP archive. Data set II: Measurement values and processed image data: <br> - https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-17868; <br> This data set contains all measurement values and calculated results of all measurement points in the Excel and CSV files (e.g. pressure drop, volumetric flow rates, void fraction, measurement uncertainties).<br> In addition, the results of the image processing algorithm are included in the Excel and CSV files (e.g. mean bubble diameter, maximum bubble diameter, local film flow ratio, extent of the two-phase distribution across the channel width, measurement uncertainties).<br> The image folders contain the pre-processed images which were the input to the digital image analysis (i.e. the aligned and cropped image section of the channel without inlet, outlet, and peripheral regions and after subtraction of the image background), and the post-processed images visualizing the output of the digital image analysis for this image (i.e. detected objects are inserted as colored regions in the image section; the meaning of colors was explained in the publications of 2022 and 2023). <br> In this dataset, the image folders are also subdivided into measurements with uniform and non-uniform gas injection and designated with the numbers of the measurement points, which are listed in the Excel and CSV files. The two datasets are the supplementary research data for the following publications: <br> - S. Buscher, 2023, Visualization, measurement, and modelling of adiabatic gas-liquid flow in a cross-corrugated plate heat exchanger channel, Doctoral thesis, Technische Universität Berlin, https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-17866. (supplemented by data sets I and II) <br> - S. Buscher, 2019, Visualization and modelling of flow pattern transitions in a cross-corrugated plate heat exchanger channel with uniform two-phase distribution, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 144, 118643, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118643. (supplemented by data set I, part 1-3)<br> - S. Buscher, 2021, Two-phase pressure drop and void fraction in a cross-corrugated plate heat exchanger channel: Impact of flow direction and gas-liquid distribution, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 126, 110380, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2021.110380. (supplemented by the measurement values in the Excel and CSV files of data set II)<br> - S. Buscher, 2022, Digital image analysis of gas-liquid flow in a cross-corrugated plate heat exchanger channel: A feature-based approach on various two-phase flow patterns, International Journal of Multiphase Flow 154, 104149, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2022.104149. (supplemented by data set II)