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  HomeContents of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering 2008 No.3Experimental Investigation on Condensation Heat Transfer of R22 and R410a in Microtubes

Experimental Investigation on Condensation Heat Transfer of
R22 and R410a in Microtubes

 

ZHANG Huiyong  LI Junming  WANG Buxuan

(Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084)

 

Abstract: R410a is known as one of the substitutes of R22. Studying the pressure drop of R410a during condensing process is important for designing high efficient condensation heat transfer equipments using R410a as refrigerant. Test rig for condensation heat transfer in micro-scale is established and condensation heat transfer coefficients of R22 and R410a in stainless round tube with the inner diameter of 0.941 mm are measured at a saturate temperature of 40 ℃, with mass flux varying from 200-1 000 kg/(m2•s), over the quality 0.2-0.8. The effects of mass flux and vapor quality were analyzed and present experiment data were compared with SHAH (1979) correlation and AKERS(1959) correlation which are based on experiment data from conventional tubes and widely used. The experimental and analytical results showed that condensation heat transfer coefficients increased with mass flux and vapor quality and obviously faster in high vapor quality region, which indicated that vapor shear force played more important role. The two correlations both can’t predict present experiment data accurately especially in high vapor quality region with the biggest error of 60%. Condensation heat transfer coefficients of R410a are lower than that of R22 at low mass flux and vapor quality but nearly equivalent at intermediate or more higher mass flux.

Key words: Convective heat transfer  Micro-tube  Condensation heat transfer

CLC No: TK124

国家自然科学基金资助项目(50676045). Received 20070326, received in revised form 20071104

 
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