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Expérimentation d’un échangeur de chaleur à micro-canaux à tubes ailetés intégrant un matériau à changement de phase et du R410A.

Experimentation on finned-tube microchannel heat exchanger incorporating phase change material and R-410A.

Numéro : 2214

Auteurs : YANG J., MUEHLBAUER J., TANCABEL J., AUTE V., HWANG Y.

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Integrating latent heat thermal energy storage, particularly phase change materials (PCM), in building heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) systems, offers substantial benefits for peak load shifting and energy efficiency. While numerous studies explore PCM-embedded heat exchangers (PCM-HX) using single-phase heat transfer fluids, there needs to be more investigation regarding PCM-HX utilizing two-phase refrigerant flow. This gap is even more pronounced for microchannel heat exchanger (MCHX) configurations. In this study, an MCHX-based PCM-HX was built and tested to analyze and evaluate the performance of a PCM-HX operating with a two-phase refrigerant as the working fluid. A  commercially available MCHX condenser unit was embedded with 2.6 kg of RT35 PCM and tested using R-410A as the working fluid, using an in-house test loop to control the refrigerant inlet conditions precisely. Thin and minimally invasive T-type thermocouples traced the temperature evolution along MCHX channels and tube banks. Additional larger T-type thermocouple probes at the refrigerant inlet and outlet measured the average power of the PCM-HX during condensing tests, ranging from 0.7 kW to 1.6 kW based on mass flow rates varying from 3.5 g/s to 8 g/s. This experimental study on MCHX-based PCM-HX with a two-phase refrigerant has the potential to offer practical design guidelines for the direct integration of PCM-TES in HVAC&R systems without the use of a secondary loop, while caution is advised to avoid a substantial increase in the refrigerant charge amount.

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  • Titre original : Experimentation on finned-tube microchannel heat exchanger incorporating phase change material and R-410A.
  • Identifiant de la fiche : 30033087
  • Langues : Anglais
  • Sujet : Technologie
  • Source : 2024 Purdue Conferences. 20th International Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Conference at Purdue.
  • Date d'édition : 17/07/2024

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