This paper reports critical heat flux(CHF) performance on wire heater according to material, thickness, length, cross sectional shape. Water was employed as the working fluid, which was saturated at 1 atm. By comparison of CHF values with difference conditions of wire length, contact resistance inherent in the experimental apparatus could be analyzed, which had made the bias error in many research groups. So, exact value of CHF could be measured, which was consistent with the literatures. The CHF value showed decrease tendency, as the cross sectional area increased and reach to the capillary length of the working fluid. Meanwhile, the effect of thermal properties on CHF was not observed in the experimental cases. This data would be used as a reference data in research field of CHF using wire heater, i.e. reactivity initiative accident(RIA).

When the heat flux on the heating surface following changing heat condition in the boiling heat transfer system exceeds critical heat flux, the critical heat flux phenomenon is going over to immediately the film boiling area and then it is occurred the physical destruction phenomenon of various heat transfer systems. In order to maximize the safe operation and performance of the heat transfer system, it is essential to improve the CHF(Critical Heat Flux) of the system. Therefore, we have analysis the effect of improving CHF and characteristics of heat transfer following the nanoparticle coating thickness. As the results, copper nanocoating time are increased to CHF, and in case of nano-coatings are increased spray-deposited coating times more than in the fure water; copper nanopowder is increased up to 6.40%. The boiling heat transfer coefficients of the pure water are increased up to 5.79% respectively. Also, the contact angle is decreased and surface roughness is increased when nano-coating time is increasingly going up.