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Simulation numérique de l'écoulement diphasique à travers des tubes capillaires adiabatiques d'un frigorigène contaminé par du gaz.

Numerical simulation of gas-contaminated refrigerant two-phase flow through adiabatic capillary tubes.

Auteurs : VINS V., HRUBÝ J., VACEK V.

Type d'article : Article

Résumé

An unfavourable effect of gas impurities on the throttling process inside a small-diameter tube, i.e. a capillary tube, has been studied in detail. A special testing capillary tube equipped with precise temperature and pressure sensors has been used for an experimental investigation of the capillary flow of a saturated fluorocarbon refrigerant, R218, contaminated by dissolved nitrogen. The gas impurities significantly affected the throttling process, since the two-phase flow started notably earlier than in the case of pure refrigerant flow. Moreover, the gas contamination resulted in a decreased mass flow rate of refrigerant delivered through the capillary tube. A comprehensive numerical model has been developed to simulate the capillary flow of gas-contaminated refrigerant. The model takes into account two coincident thermodynamic events: the throttling process of the refrigerant (solvent) and the gradual release of the dissolved gas impurities (solute) from the refrigerant liquid phase. The gas release is in principle described by using the temperature correlation of the Henry's law constant. The model considers adiabatic, thermodynamically equilibrated capillary flow with homogeneous two-phase flow. The numerical simulation is in good agreement with the authors' experimental data measured for R218 contaminated by nitrogen. [Reprinted with permission from Elsevier. Copyright, 2010].

Détails

  • Titre original : Numerical simulation of gas-contaminated refrigerant two-phase flow through adiabatic capillary tubes.
  • Identifiant de la fiche : 2011-0121
  • Langues : Anglais
  • Source : International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer - vol. 53 - n. 23-24
  • Date d'édition : 11/2010
  • DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.07.013

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