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Flow Pattern and Pressure Drop of Pure Refrigerants and Their Mixture in Horizontal Tube

  • Lim, Tae-Woo
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.2289-2295
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    • 2005
  • Two-Phase flow pattern and pressure drop data were obtained for pure refrigerants R134a and R123 and their mixtures as test fluids in a horizontal tube. The flow pattern is observed through tubular sight glasses located at inlet and outlet of the test section. The flow map of Baker developed for air-water two-phase flow at atmospheric pressure failed to predict the observed flow patterns at the higher value of the mass velocity used in the present study. The map of Kattan et al. predicted the data well over the entire region of mass velocity selected in the present study. The measured pressure drop increased with an increase in vapor quality and mass velocity. A new two-phase multiplier was developed from a dimensional analysis of the frictional pressure drop data measured in the present experiment. This new multiplier was found successfully to correlate the frictional pressure drop.

Condensing Heat Transfer Characteristics of Propylene Refrigerant (프로필렌 냉매의 응축열전달 특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 이호생;김재돌;윤정인
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.639-644
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    • 2004
  • This paper deals with the heat transfer characteristics of R-1270 (Propylene), R-600a (Iso-butane) and R-290 (Propane) as an environment friendly refrigerant and R-22 for condensing. The experimental apparatus has been set-up as a conventional vapor compression type heat pump system. The test section is a horizontal double pipe heat exchanger. A tube diameter of 12.70 mm with 1.32 mm wall thickness is used for this investigation. The test results showed that the local condensing heat transfer coefficients of hydrocarbon refrigerants were higher than that of R-22. The average condensing heat transfer coefficient was obtained with the maximum value in R-1270 and the minimum one in R-22. Comparing the heat transfer coefficient of experimental results with that of other correlations, the presented results had a good agreement with the Cavallini-Zecchin's correlation. It reveals that the natural refrigerants can be used as substitute for R-22.

Exergy Analysis of Refrigeration Cycle With Mixed Refrigerants Considering The Heat Exchange Process (열교환 과정을 고려한 혼합매체 냉동사이클의 엑서지 해석)

  • Jeong Sang Kwon;Ro Sung Tack
    • The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.305-314
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    • 1987
  • Thermodynamic analysis of a mixed refrigerant refrigeration cycle has been performed by computing thermodynamic properties of various refrigerants. The analyses are carried cut to identify the sources and distribution of the energy degradation by irreversible processes. Heat exchange process with the surroundings produces the entropy and the irreversible loss can be reduced by the mixed refrigerant whose phase change temperature varies during the phase change processes in the evaporator and the condenser. The concept has been applied to find the minimum compression work and thus the minimum energy loss in the overall system, specifically in the case of the mixed refrigerant of R12 and R114. Parametric studies have been added to recognize the various factors affecting the system performance.

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