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Optimized air-to-refrigerant heat exchanger with low-GWP refrigerants.

Number: pap. 1140

Author(s) : CHO H., DOMANSKI P. A.

Summary

This paper presents an analytical evaluation of the performance of low-GWP refrigerants in a finned-tube evaporator used for residential cooling applications. The study employed an evolutionary-computation optimization module to examine the effect of a refrigerant circuitry design on performance of twelve alternative refrigerants for R22 and R410A. The study showed that high-pressure fluids benefited most from refrigerant circuitry optimization, with R744 achieving a capacity increase of over 13 %. Among lower-pressure fluids, the capacity of an R717 evaporator increased by over 10 %. The effect of optimized refrigerant circuitries on the system performance was estimated. The results show that zeotropic blends with a large temperature glide are particularly sensitive to the refrigerant circuitry and may suffer significant performance degradation in heat exchangers with improper design.

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  • Original title: Optimized air-to-refrigerant heat exchanger with low-GWP refrigerants.
  • Record ID : 30019165
  • Languages: English
  • Source: 12th IIR Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Refrigerants (GL2016). Proceedings. Édimbourg, United Kingdom, August 21st-24th 2016.
  • Publication date: 2016/08/21
  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18462/iir.gl.2016.1140

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