An existing commercial scale low temperature R-502 refrigeration plant has been extensively instrumented for evaluating R-502 long term replacements R-404A, R-407A and R-507. This installation is part of the refrigeration plant located at the Thermal Technology Centre. The R-502 retrofit test facility has an internally compounded two stage 40 HP reciprocating compressor equipped with desuperhea...

A wide variety of heating and cooling applications use heat exchangers. The increase in energy prices, the requirement for size reduction, restriction on greenhouse gas emissions has led to need finding ways develop efficient cost-efficient way enhance model a exchanger by visualizing effects design parameters is using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). reason this exploration was lead an exam...

This paper presents an interactive finned-tube evaporator and condenser design program, EVAP-COND (ver. 3), which incorporates a computational intelligence module, ISHED (Intelligent System for Heat Exchanger Design), for optimization of refrigerant circuitry. This paper presents ISHED’s design, its function, the parameters controlling an optimization run, selected examples of ISHED experimenta...

A MODEL OF AN AIR-CONDITIONING CONDENSER AND EVAPORATOR WITH EMPHASIS ON IN-TUBE ENHANCEMENT Kuo-Hsiu Huang Michael B. Pate Mechanical Engineering Department Iowa state University Ames, Iowa 50011 A computational model for air-conditioning condensers and evaporators with in-tube enhancement has been developed. The purpose of this model is to provide a tool for the design of plate tinned-tube he...

Abstract To verify the operational feasibility of plate-and-tube evaporative cooling frost-free heat pump exchanger and its influence factors, a single was selected as simulation object, VOF model, RNG k-ε self-programmed UDF program were used to control water vapor transfer mass air flow rate on internal law model. The results show that velocity increases, percentage turbulent inside model sol...

the objective of the present study is the synthesis of mwcnt-tio2 hybrid nanostructures by solvothermal synthesis method with ticl4 as precursor. the heat transfer enhancement due to the use of mwcnt-tio2 nanofluid was investigated. as-prepared hybrid materials were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electron microscopy (sem). the results showed that mwcnts were uniformly dec...

A comprehensive study of two-phase flow mechanisms and pressure drop in horizontal small hydraulic diameter tubes was conducted. Co-current flow of air-water mixtures in four round tubes and one rectangular tube with hydraulic diameters ranging from 5.5 mm to 1.3 mm were investigated. Bubble, dispersed, elongated bubble, slug, stratified, wavy, annular-wavy, and annular flow patterns were obser...

For better design and optimization of the heat exchanger (HX), forced convective transfer flow characteristics supercritical carbon dioxide (SCO2) in a water-cooled experimental counter-flow tube-in-tube HX were studied numerically with three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model by using computational fluid dynamics method ANSYS CFX...

The objective of this study was to provide experimental data that could be used to predict frost growth and frost performance of a round plate fin-tube heat exchanger for low temperature heat pumps used in zero emission vehicles under cold weather conditions. In this study, round plate fin-tube heat exchangers were tested with variation of the fin space, air flow rate, relative humidity, and in...