This article investigates the thermal performance of a heat pipe heat exchanger for heat recovery in air conditioning applications. Experiments were conducted with ratios of return to fresh air mass flow rates of 1, 1.5, and 2.3. The fresh air inlet temperature was varied from 32°C to 40°C while the return air temperature was kept at 26°C. The results show that the temperature changes and effectiveness of both the evaporator and condenser sections increase with higher fresh air inlet temperatures. The enthalpy ratio between heat recovery and conventional air mixing also increases with fresh air inlet temperature, reaching 85% at 40°C.
This paper describes an experimental study of using the waste heat from a Panasonic Under-
Ceiling split room air - conditioner had a rated capacity of 3.51 kW (12,000 Btu/h). An under – ceiling
split type air conditioning for heating domestic water in private homes. Energy recovery improved the
performance, and the recovered energy could replace electricity completely for heating domestic water
use. An extra charge of refrigerant in the air-conditioner could prevent its compressor from over heating
during energy recovery. The experimental conducted on varies capacity of the range from 22.5 litres to
120 litres storage tank. Results show the water temperature increased lies in the range of 50 OC to 65
OC. It was found that, when the initial water temperature in the 22.5 litres storage tank 27 OC, the water
temperature reached 65 OC in 105 minutes. For 120 litres water, temperature increased from 27 OC to 62
OC,5 in 240 minutes.
EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORTICAL STUDY OF THE THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF HEAT PIPE HEA...IAEME Publication
Heat pipe heat exchanger (HPHE) considers one of the most useful devices for the recovery of waste heat energy. An Experimental study has been carried out on air to –air HPHE constructed of thermosyphon heat pipes with distilled water as the working fluid and a fill ratio of 75% from the evaporator length. Its model was composed of 4 rows, each row contains 12 copper tubes, each tube have ID= 9.5 mm, OD=10mm and length =950 mm and the rows of tubes were arranged in a staggered manner. Aluminum wavy plate fins of 0.1mm thickness were fixed among the tubes to increase the heat transfer area. Tests were conducted at various flow rates (air flow rate through evaporator and condenser sections) ranged between 0.12 and 0.37 kg/s and at different temperatures of air entering evaporator section (90, 100,110) ℃ to indicate discontinuity in the effectiveness when the flow rate ratio equal to one .
Experimental Investigation of a Household Refrigerator Using Evaporative-Cool...inventy
The objective of this paper was to investigate experimentally the effect of Evaporative-cooled condenser in a household refrigerator. The experiment was done using HCF134a as the refrigerant. The performance of the household refrigerator with air-cooled and Evaporative-cooled condenser was compared for different load conditions. The results indicate that the refrigerator performance had improved when evaporative-cooled condenser was used instead of air-cooled condenser on all load conditions. Evaporativecooled condenser reduced the energy consumption when compared with the air-cooled condenser. There was also an enhancement in coefficient of performance (COP) when evaporative-cooled condenser was used instead of air-cooled condenser. The Evaporative cooled heat exchanger was designed and the system was modified by retrofitting it, instead of the conventional air-cooled condenser by making drop wise condensation using water and forced circulation over the condenser. From the experimental analysis it is observed that the COP of evaporative cooled system increased by 13.44% compared to that of air cooled system. So the overall efficiency and refrigerating effect is increased. In minimum constructional, maintenance and running cost, the system is much useful for domestic purpose. This study also revealed that combining a evaporative cooled system along with conventional water cooled system under the condition that the defrost water obtained from the freezer is used for drop wise condensation over condenser and water cooled condensation of the condenser at the bottom using remaining defrost water would reduce the power consumption, work done and hence further increase in refrigerating effect of the system. The study has shown that such a system is technically feasible and economically viable
Flue gas low temperature heat recovery system for air conditioningeSAT Journals
Abstract Huge amount of energy wasted through the flue gas in thermal power station causes great concern in recent years. Discharging hot flue gas in the environment is not only a wastage of energy but also increases the rate of global warming. Efforts are given world -wide to harness the energy for useful purposes. In this work, the waste heat of flue gas in a 350 MW thermal power plant is utilized in vapor absorption air conditioning plant. Gas to liquid multi-pass cross flow heat exchanger that have been placed in the existing space between boiler and chimney. The dimensions of the finally selected heat exchanger are 0.106m × 2.4m × 3.4m. The number of pipes required for the heat exchanger is found to be 12 using iteration method and temperature of water at the outlet of last pipe is 101.1℃. The extracted energy from the flue gas is used to heat water to be utilized in the generator of a vapor absorption refrigeration system that has produced a refrigerating capacity of 70 TR. approximately. Due to the corrosive nature of flue gas, heat recovery is confined up to the acid dew point temperature of the flue gas. Suitable software is used to find out the detailed design parameters of Gas to liquid multi-pass cross flow heat exchangers. Out of many feasible designs of heat exchangers, the most economic design is selected as the final design. Keywords—Air Conditioning; Flue Gas; Heat Exchanger; Heat Recovery; Vapour Absorption Machine
Abstract: Heat pipe are high-efficient heat transfer devices and have been widely applied in various thermal systems. Since heat pipe utilize the phase change of the working fluid to transport the heat, the selection of working fluid is of essential importance to promote the thermal performance of heat pipe. Owing to the heat transfer enhancement effect of nanofluid in the single phase and phase change heat transfer, some researchers have applied various nanofluids in heat pipe as the working fluids to enhance their heat transfer performance.
Thermodynamic Analysis of a Cascade Refrigeration System Based On Carbon Diox...IJERA Editor
Thermodynamic analysis of a cascade refrigeration system that uses carbon dioxide-ammonia (R744-R717) as refrigerant is presented in this paper to determine the optimum condensing temperature of the cascade condenser at given design parameters, to maximize the COP of the system. The design and operating parameters considered in this study include (1) condensing, sub cooling, evaporating and super heating temperatures in the ammonia (R717) high-temperature circuit, (2) temperature difference in the cascade heat exchanger, and (3) evaporating, superheating, condensing and sub cooling in the carbon dioxide (R744) low-temperature circuit. A multilinear regression analysis was employed in order to develop two useful correlations for maximum COP, and optimum condensing temperature.
This paper describes an experimental study of using the waste heat from a Panasonic Under-
Ceiling split room air - conditioner had a rated capacity of 3.51 kW (12,000 Btu/h). An under – ceiling
split type air conditioning for heating domestic water in private homes. Energy recovery improved the
performance, and the recovered energy could replace electricity completely for heating domestic water
use. An extra charge of refrigerant in the air-conditioner could prevent its compressor from over heating
during energy recovery. The experimental conducted on varies capacity of the range from 22.5 litres to
120 litres storage tank. Results show the water temperature increased lies in the range of 50 OC to 65
OC. It was found that, when the initial water temperature in the 22.5 litres storage tank 27 OC, the water
temperature reached 65 OC in 105 minutes. For 120 litres water, temperature increased from 27 OC to 62
OC,5 in 240 minutes.
EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORTICAL STUDY OF THE THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF HEAT PIPE HEA...IAEME Publication
Heat pipe heat exchanger (HPHE) considers one of the most useful devices for the recovery of waste heat energy. An Experimental study has been carried out on air to –air HPHE constructed of thermosyphon heat pipes with distilled water as the working fluid and a fill ratio of 75% from the evaporator length. Its model was composed of 4 rows, each row contains 12 copper tubes, each tube have ID= 9.5 mm, OD=10mm and length =950 mm and the rows of tubes were arranged in a staggered manner. Aluminum wavy plate fins of 0.1mm thickness were fixed among the tubes to increase the heat transfer area. Tests were conducted at various flow rates (air flow rate through evaporator and condenser sections) ranged between 0.12 and 0.37 kg/s and at different temperatures of air entering evaporator section (90, 100,110) ℃ to indicate discontinuity in the effectiveness when the flow rate ratio equal to one .
Experimental Investigation of a Household Refrigerator Using Evaporative-Cool...inventy
The objective of this paper was to investigate experimentally the effect of Evaporative-cooled condenser in a household refrigerator. The experiment was done using HCF134a as the refrigerant. The performance of the household refrigerator with air-cooled and Evaporative-cooled condenser was compared for different load conditions. The results indicate that the refrigerator performance had improved when evaporative-cooled condenser was used instead of air-cooled condenser on all load conditions. Evaporativecooled condenser reduced the energy consumption when compared with the air-cooled condenser. There was also an enhancement in coefficient of performance (COP) when evaporative-cooled condenser was used instead of air-cooled condenser. The Evaporative cooled heat exchanger was designed and the system was modified by retrofitting it, instead of the conventional air-cooled condenser by making drop wise condensation using water and forced circulation over the condenser. From the experimental analysis it is observed that the COP of evaporative cooled system increased by 13.44% compared to that of air cooled system. So the overall efficiency and refrigerating effect is increased. In minimum constructional, maintenance and running cost, the system is much useful for domestic purpose. This study also revealed that combining a evaporative cooled system along with conventional water cooled system under the condition that the defrost water obtained from the freezer is used for drop wise condensation over condenser and water cooled condensation of the condenser at the bottom using remaining defrost water would reduce the power consumption, work done and hence further increase in refrigerating effect of the system. The study has shown that such a system is technically feasible and economically viable
Flue gas low temperature heat recovery system for air conditioningeSAT Journals
Abstract Huge amount of energy wasted through the flue gas in thermal power station causes great concern in recent years. Discharging hot flue gas in the environment is not only a wastage of energy but also increases the rate of global warming. Efforts are given world -wide to harness the energy for useful purposes. In this work, the waste heat of flue gas in a 350 MW thermal power plant is utilized in vapor absorption air conditioning plant. Gas to liquid multi-pass cross flow heat exchanger that have been placed in the existing space between boiler and chimney. The dimensions of the finally selected heat exchanger are 0.106m × 2.4m × 3.4m. The number of pipes required for the heat exchanger is found to be 12 using iteration method and temperature of water at the outlet of last pipe is 101.1℃. The extracted energy from the flue gas is used to heat water to be utilized in the generator of a vapor absorption refrigeration system that has produced a refrigerating capacity of 70 TR. approximately. Due to the corrosive nature of flue gas, heat recovery is confined up to the acid dew point temperature of the flue gas. Suitable software is used to find out the detailed design parameters of Gas to liquid multi-pass cross flow heat exchangers. Out of many feasible designs of heat exchangers, the most economic design is selected as the final design. Keywords—Air Conditioning; Flue Gas; Heat Exchanger; Heat Recovery; Vapour Absorption Machine
Abstract: Heat pipe are high-efficient heat transfer devices and have been widely applied in various thermal systems. Since heat pipe utilize the phase change of the working fluid to transport the heat, the selection of working fluid is of essential importance to promote the thermal performance of heat pipe. Owing to the heat transfer enhancement effect of nanofluid in the single phase and phase change heat transfer, some researchers have applied various nanofluids in heat pipe as the working fluids to enhance their heat transfer performance.
Thermodynamic Analysis of a Cascade Refrigeration System Based On Carbon Diox...IJERA Editor
Thermodynamic analysis of a cascade refrigeration system that uses carbon dioxide-ammonia (R744-R717) as refrigerant is presented in this paper to determine the optimum condensing temperature of the cascade condenser at given design parameters, to maximize the COP of the system. The design and operating parameters considered in this study include (1) condensing, sub cooling, evaporating and super heating temperatures in the ammonia (R717) high-temperature circuit, (2) temperature difference in the cascade heat exchanger, and (3) evaporating, superheating, condensing and sub cooling in the carbon dioxide (R744) low-temperature circuit. A multilinear regression analysis was employed in order to develop two useful correlations for maximum COP, and optimum condensing temperature.
Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Scienceinventy
esearch Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Science is published by the group of young academic and industrial researchers with 12 Issues per year. It is an online as well as print version open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as: civil, mechanical, chemical, electronic and computer engineering as well as production and information technology. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published by rapid process within 20 days after acceptance and peer review process takes only 7 days. All articles published in Research Inventy will be peer-reviewed.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
Modeling and Fluid Flow Analysis of Wavy Fin Based Automotive RadiatorIJERA Editor
In continuous technological development, an automotive industry has increased the demand for high efficiency engines. A high efficiency engines in not only based on its performance but also for better fuel economy and less emission rate. Radiator is one of the important parts of the internal combustion engine cooling system. The manufacturing cost of the radiator is 20 percent of the whole cost of the engine. So improving the performance and reducing cost of radiators are necessary research. For higher cooling capacity of radiator, addition of fins is one of the approaches to increase the cooling rate of the radiator. In addition, heat transfer fluids at air and fluid side such as water and ethylene glycol exhibit very low thermal conductivity. As a result there is a need for new and innovative heat transfer fluids, known as “Nano fluid” for improving heat transfer rate in an automotive radiator. Recently there have been considerable research findings highlighting superior heat transfer performances of nanofluids about 15-25% of heat transfer enhancement can be achieved by using types of nanofluids. With these specific characteristics, the size and weight of an automotive car radiator can be reduced without affecting its heat transfer performance. An automotive radiator (Wavy fin type) model is modeled on modeling software CATIA V5 and performance evaluation is done on pre-processing software ANSYS 14.0. The temperature and velocity distribution of coolant and air are analyzed by using Computational fluid dynamics environment software CFX. Results have shown that the rate of heat transfer is better when nano fluid (Si C + water) is used as coolant, than the conventional coolant.
Optimization of Air Preheater for compactness of shell by evaluating performa...Nemish Kanwar
Designing of an Air Preheater with increased performance from an existing design through alteration in baffle placement. Analysis of 4 Baffle designs for segmented Baffle case was done using Ansys Fluent. The net heat recovery rate was computed by subtracting pump work from heat recovered. Based on the result, Air Preheater design was recommended.
A REVIEW PAPER ON ANALYSIS OF AUTOMOBILE RADIATORijsrd.com
An Automotive engine cooling system takes out of excess heat produced during engine operation. An automobile cooling system regulates engine surface temperature for engine optimum efficiency. Recent advancement and development in engine for power forced engine cooling system to develop new strategies to improve its performance efficiency. Also to reduce fuel consumption along with controlling engine emission to mitigate environmental pollution norms. This paper throws light on parameters which influence radiator performance along with reviews some of the conventional and modern approaches to enhance radiator performance. This review paper Focus on the various research papers regarding experimental, CFD and Numerical analysis to improving automobile radiator efficiency.
Exergetic efficiency analysis of hydrogen–air detonation in pulse detonation ...BBIT Kolkata
Exergy losses during the combustion process, heat transfer, and fuel utilization play a vital role in the analysis of the
exergetic efficiency of combustion process. Detonation is thermodynamically more efficient than deflagration mode of
combustion. Detonation combustion technology inside the pulse detonation engine using hydrogen as a fuel is energetic
propulsion system for next generation. In this study, the main objective of this work is to quantify the exergetic efficiency
of hydrogen–air combustion for deflagration and detonation combustion process. Further detonation parameters are
calculated using 0.25, 0.35, and 0.55 of H2 mass concentrations in the combustion process. The simulations have been
performed for converging the solution using commercial computational fluid dynamics package Ansys Fluent solver. The
details of combustion physics in chemical reacting flows of hydrogen–air mixture in two control volumes were simulated
using species transport model with eddy dissipation turbulence chemistry interaction. From these simulations it was
observed that exergy loss in the deflagration combustion process is higher in comparison to the detonation combustion
process. The major observation was that pilot fuel economy for the two combustion processes and augmentation of
exergetic efficiencies are better in the detonation combustion process. The maximum exergetic efficiency of 55.12%,
53.19%, and 23.43% from deflagration combustion process and from detonation combustion process, 67.55%, 57.49%,
and 24.89%, are obtained from aforesaid H2 mass fraction. It was also found that for lesser fuel mass fraction higher
exergetic efficiency was observed.
Performance Improvement of a Domestic Refrigerator Using Phase change Materia...IOSR Journals
The paper investigates the performance improvement provided by a phase change material (PCM) associated with the evaporator in a domestic refrigerator. The heat release and storage rate of a refrigerator is depends upon the characteristics of refrigerant and its properties. The usage of phase change material (PCM) enhances the heat transfer rate thus improve the COP (Coefficient of performance) of refrigeration. The analysis of the experiment exemplifies the improvement of a conventional refrigeration system’s COP (Coefficient of performance) considerably. Using water as PCM and for a certain thermal load it is found that the COP (Coefficient of performance) of the conventional refrigerator increased by 18-26% on average. Here the phase change material (PCM) used in a chamber built manually and which surrounds the Evaporator chamber of a conventional refrigerator. The whole heat transfer from load given to refrigerator cabinet to evaporator, evaporator to phase change material (PCM) by conduction. So the heat transfer rate of evaporator refrigerant increases remarkably which improves the COP (Coefficient of performance) the refrigeration system.
Energy and Exergy Analysis of a Cogeneration Cycle, Driven by Ocean Thermal E...theijes
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a technology by which thermal energy from the ocean is harnessed and converted into electricity. It is one of the renewable energy technologies being researched into, as part of solutions to the challenge of global warming and climate change. A major setback of this technology, however, is that it has a very low cycle efficiency. In this work a cogeneration cycle is proposed which is driven by the temperature difference between the warm surface layer and the cold bottom layer of the ocean. The work is aimed at improving the overall cycle efficiency of OTEC systems by reducing the depth at which cold water is captured from the ocean. To achieve this, the cycle employs a binary mixture of ammonia and water as the working fluid and uses the mechanism of absorption to obtain the liquid phase of the working fluid after expansion through the turbine. The effects of varying cycle parameters such as the depth of cold-water capture, heat source temperature and mixture composition of the working fluid were investigated. With a basic solution mixture concentration of 0.40 kg/kg NH3/H2O, and under operating conditions of 30oC as the warm surface water temperature and a cold water temperature of 10oC, captured at a depth of 600m the proposed cycle produced a net power output of 42 kW, and a refrigeration capacity of 370 kW. The thermal efficiency computed was 1.94% and the exergy efficiency was 13.78%, both higher than the case where the depth of cold water capture was 1000m.
CFD Simulation and Heat Transfer Analysis of Automobile Radiator using Helica...IJERD Editor
To ensure smooth running of an automotive vehicle under any variable load conditions, one of the major systems necessary is the cooling system. Automobile radiators are becoming highly power-packed with increasing power to weight or volume ratio. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is one of the important software tools to access preliminary design and the performance of the radiator. In this paper, a 55 hp engine radiator data is taken for analysis in CFD. The model is done Pro-E software and imported in ANSYS-12. Helical tubes are considered for the radiator with two different pitches like 15mm & 20mm. The comparison is done for different mass flow rates like 2.3, 2.0, 1.0, 0.5 kg/sec in helical type tubes. It is found that there is more heat dissipation rate in 15mm pitch helical tubes compared to 20mm pitch helical tubes. Maximum temperature drop & minimum pressure drop occurs in case of 0.5 kg/sec of mass flow rate. It is observed that with increased mass flow rate, there is decrease in temperature drop & increase in pressure drop
an experiment on a co2 air conditioning system with copper heat exchangersINFOGAIN PUBLICATION
This paper presented an experiment on a CO2 air conditioning system with copper heat exchangers. In this study, the compressor and cooler were tested with hydraulic method to determine the deformed and torn temperatures. The results show that conventional compressor is not suitable for using high pressure, due to the COP of cycle is very low (0.5 only). With CO2 compressor, the cycle can be achieved COP of 3.07 at the evaporative temperature of 10C. This value equals with COP of commercial air conditioning system presently.
Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Scienceinventy
esearch Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Science is published by the group of young academic and industrial researchers with 12 Issues per year. It is an online as well as print version open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as: civil, mechanical, chemical, electronic and computer engineering as well as production and information technology. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published by rapid process within 20 days after acceptance and peer review process takes only 7 days. All articles published in Research Inventy will be peer-reviewed.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research(IJCER) is an intentional online Journal in English monthly publishing journal. This Journal publish original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge in engineering and Technology.
Modeling and Fluid Flow Analysis of Wavy Fin Based Automotive RadiatorIJERA Editor
In continuous technological development, an automotive industry has increased the demand for high efficiency engines. A high efficiency engines in not only based on its performance but also for better fuel economy and less emission rate. Radiator is one of the important parts of the internal combustion engine cooling system. The manufacturing cost of the radiator is 20 percent of the whole cost of the engine. So improving the performance and reducing cost of radiators are necessary research. For higher cooling capacity of radiator, addition of fins is one of the approaches to increase the cooling rate of the radiator. In addition, heat transfer fluids at air and fluid side such as water and ethylene glycol exhibit very low thermal conductivity. As a result there is a need for new and innovative heat transfer fluids, known as “Nano fluid” for improving heat transfer rate in an automotive radiator. Recently there have been considerable research findings highlighting superior heat transfer performances of nanofluids about 15-25% of heat transfer enhancement can be achieved by using types of nanofluids. With these specific characteristics, the size and weight of an automotive car radiator can be reduced without affecting its heat transfer performance. An automotive radiator (Wavy fin type) model is modeled on modeling software CATIA V5 and performance evaluation is done on pre-processing software ANSYS 14.0. The temperature and velocity distribution of coolant and air are analyzed by using Computational fluid dynamics environment software CFX. Results have shown that the rate of heat transfer is better when nano fluid (Si C + water) is used as coolant, than the conventional coolant.
Optimization of Air Preheater for compactness of shell by evaluating performa...Nemish Kanwar
Designing of an Air Preheater with increased performance from an existing design through alteration in baffle placement. Analysis of 4 Baffle designs for segmented Baffle case was done using Ansys Fluent. The net heat recovery rate was computed by subtracting pump work from heat recovered. Based on the result, Air Preheater design was recommended.
A REVIEW PAPER ON ANALYSIS OF AUTOMOBILE RADIATORijsrd.com
An Automotive engine cooling system takes out of excess heat produced during engine operation. An automobile cooling system regulates engine surface temperature for engine optimum efficiency. Recent advancement and development in engine for power forced engine cooling system to develop new strategies to improve its performance efficiency. Also to reduce fuel consumption along with controlling engine emission to mitigate environmental pollution norms. This paper throws light on parameters which influence radiator performance along with reviews some of the conventional and modern approaches to enhance radiator performance. This review paper Focus on the various research papers regarding experimental, CFD and Numerical analysis to improving automobile radiator efficiency.
Exergetic efficiency analysis of hydrogen–air detonation in pulse detonation ...BBIT Kolkata
Exergy losses during the combustion process, heat transfer, and fuel utilization play a vital role in the analysis of the
exergetic efficiency of combustion process. Detonation is thermodynamically more efficient than deflagration mode of
combustion. Detonation combustion technology inside the pulse detonation engine using hydrogen as a fuel is energetic
propulsion system for next generation. In this study, the main objective of this work is to quantify the exergetic efficiency
of hydrogen–air combustion for deflagration and detonation combustion process. Further detonation parameters are
calculated using 0.25, 0.35, and 0.55 of H2 mass concentrations in the combustion process. The simulations have been
performed for converging the solution using commercial computational fluid dynamics package Ansys Fluent solver. The
details of combustion physics in chemical reacting flows of hydrogen–air mixture in two control volumes were simulated
using species transport model with eddy dissipation turbulence chemistry interaction. From these simulations it was
observed that exergy loss in the deflagration combustion process is higher in comparison to the detonation combustion
process. The major observation was that pilot fuel economy for the two combustion processes and augmentation of
exergetic efficiencies are better in the detonation combustion process. The maximum exergetic efficiency of 55.12%,
53.19%, and 23.43% from deflagration combustion process and from detonation combustion process, 67.55%, 57.49%,
and 24.89%, are obtained from aforesaid H2 mass fraction. It was also found that for lesser fuel mass fraction higher
exergetic efficiency was observed.
Performance Improvement of a Domestic Refrigerator Using Phase change Materia...IOSR Journals
The paper investigates the performance improvement provided by a phase change material (PCM) associated with the evaporator in a domestic refrigerator. The heat release and storage rate of a refrigerator is depends upon the characteristics of refrigerant and its properties. The usage of phase change material (PCM) enhances the heat transfer rate thus improve the COP (Coefficient of performance) of refrigeration. The analysis of the experiment exemplifies the improvement of a conventional refrigeration system’s COP (Coefficient of performance) considerably. Using water as PCM and for a certain thermal load it is found that the COP (Coefficient of performance) of the conventional refrigerator increased by 18-26% on average. Here the phase change material (PCM) used in a chamber built manually and which surrounds the Evaporator chamber of a conventional refrigerator. The whole heat transfer from load given to refrigerator cabinet to evaporator, evaporator to phase change material (PCM) by conduction. So the heat transfer rate of evaporator refrigerant increases remarkably which improves the COP (Coefficient of performance) the refrigeration system.
Energy and Exergy Analysis of a Cogeneration Cycle, Driven by Ocean Thermal E...theijes
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a technology by which thermal energy from the ocean is harnessed and converted into electricity. It is one of the renewable energy technologies being researched into, as part of solutions to the challenge of global warming and climate change. A major setback of this technology, however, is that it has a very low cycle efficiency. In this work a cogeneration cycle is proposed which is driven by the temperature difference between the warm surface layer and the cold bottom layer of the ocean. The work is aimed at improving the overall cycle efficiency of OTEC systems by reducing the depth at which cold water is captured from the ocean. To achieve this, the cycle employs a binary mixture of ammonia and water as the working fluid and uses the mechanism of absorption to obtain the liquid phase of the working fluid after expansion through the turbine. The effects of varying cycle parameters such as the depth of cold-water capture, heat source temperature and mixture composition of the working fluid were investigated. With a basic solution mixture concentration of 0.40 kg/kg NH3/H2O, and under operating conditions of 30oC as the warm surface water temperature and a cold water temperature of 10oC, captured at a depth of 600m the proposed cycle produced a net power output of 42 kW, and a refrigeration capacity of 370 kW. The thermal efficiency computed was 1.94% and the exergy efficiency was 13.78%, both higher than the case where the depth of cold water capture was 1000m.
CFD Simulation and Heat Transfer Analysis of Automobile Radiator using Helica...IJERD Editor
To ensure smooth running of an automotive vehicle under any variable load conditions, one of the major systems necessary is the cooling system. Automobile radiators are becoming highly power-packed with increasing power to weight or volume ratio. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is one of the important software tools to access preliminary design and the performance of the radiator. In this paper, a 55 hp engine radiator data is taken for analysis in CFD. The model is done Pro-E software and imported in ANSYS-12. Helical tubes are considered for the radiator with two different pitches like 15mm & 20mm. The comparison is done for different mass flow rates like 2.3, 2.0, 1.0, 0.5 kg/sec in helical type tubes. It is found that there is more heat dissipation rate in 15mm pitch helical tubes compared to 20mm pitch helical tubes. Maximum temperature drop & minimum pressure drop occurs in case of 0.5 kg/sec of mass flow rate. It is observed that with increased mass flow rate, there is decrease in temperature drop & increase in pressure drop
an experiment on a co2 air conditioning system with copper heat exchangersINFOGAIN PUBLICATION
This paper presented an experiment on a CO2 air conditioning system with copper heat exchangers. In this study, the compressor and cooler were tested with hydraulic method to determine the deformed and torn temperatures. The results show that conventional compressor is not suitable for using high pressure, due to the COP of cycle is very low (0.5 only). With CO2 compressor, the cycle can be achieved COP of 3.07 at the evaporative temperature of 10C. This value equals with COP of commercial air conditioning system presently.
Performance Analysis of a Shell Tube Condenser for a Model Organic Rankine Cy...IJERA Editor
The global energy demand increases with the economic growth and population rise. Most electrical power is currently generated by conventional methods from fossil fuels. Despite the high energy demand, the conventional energy resources such as fossil fuels have been declining. In addition to this harmful combustion byproducts are resulting global warming. However, the increase of environmental concerns and energy crisis can be minimized by sustainable utilization of the low to medium temperature heat resources. The Organic Rankine Cycle power plant is a very effective option for utilization of low grade heat sources for power generation. Heat exchangers are the main components of the Organic Rankine Cycle power plant which receives heat energy from the heat source to evaporate and condense the low boiling temperature organic working fluid which in turn drives the turbine to generate power. This paper presents a simplified approach to the design, fabrication and performance assessment of a shell tube heat exchanger designed for condenser in a model Organic Rankine Cycle geothermal power plant. The design involved sizing of heat exchanger (condenser) using the LMTD method based on an expected heat transfer rate. The heat exchanger of the model power plant was tested in which hot water simulated geothermal brine. The results of the experiment indicated that the heat exchanger is thermally suitable for the condenser of the model power plant.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Analysis of Natural Convention Heat Transfer Enhancement in Finned Tube Heat ...journal ijrtem
ABSTRACT: Most of the engineering problems require high performance heat transfer components with progressively less weight, volumes, accommodating shapes and costs. Air cooled heat exchangers are subjected to air on outer side of heat exchanger surface on in heat recovery systems like economizers gases are subjected on one side of tube surface. On air or gas side heat transfer coefficient is less. Extended surface (fins) are one of the next exchanging devices that are employed extensively to increase heat transfer rates from tubular heat exchangers. The rate of heat transfer depends on the surface area of fin available for exchanging the heat transfer rate from the primary surface of cylindrical shape. Present study focuses on enhancement of heat transfer by using both circular and elliptical type of fins. The present paper attempts to examine trend of heat transfer coefficient experimentally and by using CFD software for various types of elliptical fins with i) varying elliptical ratio, ii) changing orientation of mounting of heat exchanger tube with elliptical fins, iii) varying spacing or fin density. KEY WORDS: Natural convection, Heat transfer enhancements, Elliptical fin, Fin orientation, Fin density.
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF EXERGY IN A CORRUGATED PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERIAEME Publication
In the present work an attempt has been made to investigate the performance of a 3 channel 1-1 pass, corrugated plate heat exchanger. The plates had sinusoidal wavy surfaces with corrugation angle of 450. Hot water at different inlet temperature ranging from 400C to 600C was made to flow in the central channel to get cooled by water in the outer channels.
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Heat pipe heat exchanger for heat recovery in air conditioning
Mostafa A. Abd El-Baky 1
, Mousa M. Mohamed *
Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minufiya University, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt
Abstract
The heat pipe heat exchangers are used in heat recovery applications to cool the incoming fresh air in air conditioning applications.
Two streams of fresh and return air have been connected with heat pipe heat exchanger to investigate the thermal performance and effec-
tiveness of heat recovery system. Ratios of mass flow rate between return and fresh air of 1, 1.5 and 2.3 have been adapted to validate the
heat transfer and the temperature change of fresh air. Fresh air inlet temperature of 32–40 °C has been controlled, while the inlet return
air temperature is kept constant at about 26 °C. The results showed that the temperature changes of fresh and return air are increased
with the increase of inlet temperature of fresh air. The effectiveness and heat transfer for both evaporator and condenser sections are also
increased to about 48%, when the inlet fresh air temperature is increased to 40 °C. The effect of mass flow rate ratio on effectiveness is
positive for evaporator side and negative for condenser side. The enthalpy ratio between the heat recovery and conventional air mixing is
increased to about 85% with increasing fresh air inlet temperature. The optimum effectiveness of heat pipe heat exchanger is estimated
and compared with the present experimental data. The results showed that the effectiveness is close to the optimum effectiveness at fresh
air inlet temperature near the fluid operating temperature of heat pipes.
Ó 2006 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Keywords: Heat pipes; Heat recovery; Heat exchangers; Air conditioning
1. Introduction
Heat pipe heat exchanger for heat recovery equipment
are aimed for recovering sensible heat and they are recom-
mended for systems in which inlet and return air should not
be mixed such as surgery rooms in hospitals and chemical
and biological laboratories. The advantages of using heat
pipes over conventional methods is that large quantities
of heat can be transported through a small cross-sectional
area over a considerable distance with no additional power
input to the system, (except for the fans to drive the air-
streams) together with simplicity of design and ease of
manufacture [1]. Efforts have successfully developed a ser-
ies of heat pipes equipment, such as heat pipes gas to gas
exchangers, heat pipes steam generators, high-temperature
heat pipes hot air furnaces, and progresses have been made
in the fields of metallurgical, petrochemical, chemical,
power and construction material industries on the basis
of experimental and theoretical investigations [2,3]. Also,
heat pipe heat exchangers are suitable for energy recovery
in air conditioning systems in tropical countries where
incoming fresh air at high ambient temperature could be
pre-cooled by the cold exhaust air stream before it enters
the refrigeration equipment [4]. Any study of an air condi-
tioning system in a building should be focused mainly on
indoor air quality, thermal comfort, energy saving and
environmental protection [5].
Numerous investigations have been made to obtain the
thermal performance, ensure efficient and reliable opera-
tion of heat pipe heat exchanger [6–10]. Simple experiment
was carried out for using heat pipe heat exchanger for heat-
ing automobiles using exhaust gas [11]. It is obvious that
the heat transferred by the heat pipe heat exchanger
increased with the rise of exhaust gas temperature. The
effects of input heat transfer rate, the working fluid filling
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Corresponding author. Tel.: +20 48 2237117; fax: +20 48 235695.
E-mail addresses: mostahmed2004@yahoo.com (M.A. Abd El-Baky),
mousamohamed@yahoo.com (M.M. Mohamed).
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Tel.: +20 48 2235520.
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ratio and the evaporator length on the thermal perfor-
mance of thermosyphon were investigated [12]. A heat pipe
heat exchanger was designed, constructed and tested under
low temperature of 15–35 °C, operating conditions [13].
The results showed that the minimum heat transfer is well
above the required heat transfer rate, and for increasing the
effectiveness of the heat pipe heat exchanger, the number of
rows should be increased and finned pipes should be used.
A design method by using computational fluid dynamic
simulation of the dehumidification process with heat pipe
heat exchangers was presented [14]. The study suggests that
modeling is able to predict the thermal performance and
optimize the design of the heat pipe fin stack.
The aim of this study is to investigate the thermal per-
formance and effectiveness of heat pipe heat exchanger
for heat recovery in air conditioning applications by mea-
suring the temperature difference of fresh warm and return
cold air through the evaporator and condenser side. The
heat transfer and enthalpy ratio between heat recovery
and conventional air mixing are also targeted. The opti-
mum effectiveness of heat pipe heat exchanger is calculated
and compared with the experimental results.
2. Experimental apparatus and procedure
The experimental apparatus has been designed and con-
structed as shown in Fig. 1. The test section consists of two
air ducts of 0.3 · 0.22 m2
section areas connected together
by finned tubes heat pipe heat exchanger. A square hole of
0.3 · 0.3 m2
was made in one side of the two ducts for heat
pipe heat exchanger installation. A laboratory refrigeration
machine consisting of evaporator; compressor, condenser,
and expansion device beside the measuring instrumenta-
tions were used to supply the return cold air to the con-
denser side of the heat pipe heat exchanger. The unit was
equipped with a blower of variable speed installed before
the cooling coil. The refrigeration unit was charged with
R-134a and the evaporator was made from copper-finned
tubes cooling coil, installed in the duct of 0.3 · 0.3 m2
inside dimensions. The fresh air duct was equipped with
a blower to supply air to the evaporator side of the heat
pipe heat exchanger. The return cold and fresh warm air
ducts were insulated with glass wool of 50 mm thickness
to minimize the heat transfer to surrounding air.
The flow rates of air in both two ducts were measured
with Pitot-static tube. The fresh air was kept constant at
0.4 kg sÀ1
, while the return air was changed from 0.4, 0.6
and 0.933 kg sÀ1
. The ratios between return air and fresh
are 1, 1.5, and 2.333. The air temperature and relative
humidity at inlet and outlet of the two ducts were measured
with Humidity-temperature digital device and the mea-
sured data were conducted in steady state. The refrigera-
tion unit was operated and the two blowers of fresh and
return air were also running. After enough time, the tem-
peratures and humidity of fresh and return air before and
after heat pipe heat exchanger were recorded, when they
became nearly constant. The ratio between return cold
and fresh air mass flow rates was obtained. The recorded
Nomenclature
A constant, Eq. (9)
AHX surface area of HPHE (m2
)
B constant Eq. (10)
Cp specific heat (J kgÀ1
KÀ1
)
CA area dependent first cost of HPHE ($ mÀ1
)
CE cost of heat recovery by HPHE ($ WÀ1
hÀ1
)
CF fixed operational cost for fans ($)
H annual time of operation (h yearÀ1
)
H enthalpy (J kgÀ1
)
hfg heat of vaporization (J kgÀ1
)
I energy price rate in fraction
_m air mass flow rate (kg sÀ1
)
N technical life of the HPHE (year)
P1 ratio of life cycle energy cost, Eq. (11)
P2 ratio of life cycle expenditure incurred, Eq. (12)
Q heat transfer rate (W)
R gas constant (J kgÀ1
KÀ1
)
r radius of heat pipe (m)
T temperature (°C)
Tmax temperature of inlet fresh air (°C)
Tmin temperature of return cold air (°C)
DTmax Tmax À Tmin (K)
DT temperature change of air stream (K)
U overall heat transfer coefficient (W mÀ2
KÀ1
)
e effectiveness
c specific heat ratio for gas Cp/CV
q density (kg mÀ3
)
r surface tension (N mÀ1
)
x humidity ratio (kg kgÀ1
dryair)
n enthalpy ratio of heat recovery to conventional
mixing air
Subscripts
ent entrainment limit
l liquid
M mixing point
O fresh air
O.i fresh air inlet
O.o fresh air outlet
opt optimum
R return cold air
R.i return air inlet
R.o return air outlet
s sound limit
V vapor
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data of the air were represented on the psychrometric
chart. In this study, the thermodynamic properties of moist
air and working fluids were obtained by using Cool Pack
and NIST software [15,16]. The enthalpy and humidity
ratio for each run was calculated from the cools tool aux-
iliary program using Engineering Equation Solver by
knowing the dry bulb temperature and relative humidity
of air at inlet and outlet of heat pipe heat exchanger.
2.1. Test section and heat pipe heat exchanger
The two air ducts of 0.3 · 0.22 m2
section areas and 1 m
length were made of galvanized steel sheets having 0.5 mm
thickness. The length of each duct is 1 m. A nozzle was
installed to connect the outlet of the fan and the fresh air
duct. The nozzle was made of galvanized steel with
0.5 mm thickness. It has inlet section of 0.1 · 0.1 m2
and
outlet section 0.3 · 0.22 m2
with length of 0.3 m. The heat
pipe heat exchanger consists of 25 copper tubes with length
of 0.5 m, and inside and outside diameters of 10.2 and
12.7 mm respectively. The heat pipe consists of three parts
with straight length, evaporator section of 0.2 m, adiabatic
section of 0.1 m and condenser section of 0.2 m. Four lay-
ers of 100 mesh brass screen with wire diameter of
0.125 mm were installed inside the tubes to assist the liquid
return from the condenser section to the evaporator sec-
tion. The heat pipes are closed at both ends and evacuated
from air and charged with R-11 as a working medium at
pressure of 0.127 MPa, which corresponds to saturation
temperature of 30 °C. It is note that this fluid is replaced
now by R-123. The heat pipes were arranged horizontally
in staggered form as indicated in Fig. 2. The evaporator
and condenser sections are finned with 50 square aluminum
sheets of 0.5 mm thickness and area of 0.29 · 0.29 m2
.
2.2. Air processes and data reduction
The sensible cooling of fresh air and sensible heating of
return air processes are represented on psychrometric chart
as shown in Fig. 1. The heat rejected from the air stream in
the evaporator section can be calculated as,
Q ¼ _mOCPðT O:i À T O:oÞ: ð1Þ
The effectiveness of the heat exchanger is defined as the ra-
tio of actual rate of heat transfer by the heat exchanger to
the maximum possible heat transfer rate between the two
air streams [13,17]. Assuming, there is no water condensa-
tion in fresh air stream and also assuming the specific heat
of air passing through the evaporator and condenser sec-
tions to be constant, then the effectiveness of heat pipe heat
exchanger at evaporator side is represented as,
e ¼
TO:i À TO:o
TO:i À TR:i
: ð2Þ
The ratio of utilized heat in the heat recovery process to the
utilized heat in the conventional mixing air process defined
by enthalpy ratio is:
n ¼
hO:i À hO:o
hO:i À hM
: ð3Þ
The above procedures were conducted for each experiment
at various mass flow ratios of 1, 1.5 and 2.33 and fresh air
temperatures of 32–40 °C, while the return cold air temper-
ature was kept constant at about 26 °C.
3. Results and discussion
The temperature change of fresh, hot, and return, cold,
air at various inlet air temperatures and mass flow rate
Fig. 1. Air ducts and measuring instrumentations.
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ratios are illustrated in Fig. 3. It is observed that for fresh
and return cold air, the temperature change increases with
increasing the inlet fresh air temperature. The increase in
temperature change for fresh air with increasing mass flow
rate ratio between return and fresh air is slightly positive.
But, the temperature change of return cold air is going
down with increasing mass flow rate ratio.
The calculated results of effectiveness for fresh and
return air are indicated in Fig. 4. The effectiveness is
increased with increasing the inlet fresh air temperature.
The effect of mass flow rate ratios on the effectiveness of
the heat exchanger is slightly positive for evaporator side
and largely negative for condenser side. It is interesting
to find that the increase in return to fresh air mass flow rate
ratios by about two times leads to increase in the tempera-
ture change of fresh air by about 20% and the effectiveness
in the evaporator side by about 26%. Otherwise, the values
of inlet return cold air are nearly remaining constant for all
experiments. Obviously, it is considered that the inlet fresh
air temperature is the most dominant parameter to enhance
the heat transfer rate in the evaporator side of the heat pipe
heat exchanger.
The utilized heat in the heat recovery process compared
to the conventional mixing air process, n, defined by Eq. (3)
is illustrated in Fig. 5. It is found that the heat recovery
increased with increasing inlet fresh air temperature and
it reached about 85% at inlet fresh air temperature of
40 °C. Also, the heat recovery is decreased by about 10%
with increasing mass flow rate ratio by about two times.
3.1. Heat transfer analysis and optimum effectiveness
The optimum operating conditions of a certain design of
heat pipe heat exchanger is subjected to a number of heat
transfer limitations. These limitations determine the maxi-
mum heat transfer rate of a particular design that can be
achieved under certain working conditions. The sonic and
entrainment limits of the heat transferred for a single heat
Fig. 2. Heat pipe heat exchanger and heat pipe design.
20 25 30 35 40 45
T [ºC]
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
ΔT[ºC]
Rm / m = 1o
..
RT
ToΔ
Δ
Fresh AirReturn Air
T = 26 [
o
C]R
o
0.8 1.2 1.6 2.0 2.4 2.8
m / m
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
T[ºC]
R o
Δ
RT = 26 [ C]
T = 40.0 [ C]
Fresh Air
Return Air
. .
o
o
o
Fig. 3. Effect of fresh air temperature and mass ratio on DTO and DTR.
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pipe were used in this research [13]. The sonic limitation
occurs, when the vapor velocity at the evaporator exit is
sonic. The maximum heat transferred can be calculated
as follows:
Qs ¼ pr2
VqVhfg
ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
cRT V
2ðc þ 1Þ
s
: ð4Þ
The entrainment limitation occurs, when the liquid and va-
por move in opposite directions in the heat pipe and the va-
por velocity is sufficiently high so that the liquid turned
from the surface of the wick and entrained in the vapor.
The maximum heat transmitted can be calculated as
follows:
Qent ¼ pr2
VqVhfg
ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi
2pqVrl cos h
k
r
; ð5Þ
where k is the characteristic dimension of liquid/vapor
interface and for 100 mesh was taken as 0.036 mm and h
is contact angle and was taken equal to zero [16]. It is nec-
essary to have a heat pipe capable of transferring a mini-
mum heat at the temperature range of 15–55 °C. The
effectiveness of certain heat pipe design can be obtained
[18,19] as follows:
e2
ð2A À BÞ þ 4ðB À AÞe þ ð2A À 4BÞ ¼ 0: ð6Þ
The second degree polynomial equation can be solved to
get the optimum effectiveness value as follows:
eopt ¼
4ðA À BÞ Æ
ffiffiffiffi
D
p
2ð2A À BÞ
; ð7Þ
where
D ¼ ½4ðB À AÞŠ2
À 4ð2A À BÞð2A À 4BÞ; ð8Þ
A ¼ P1CEHðTmax À TminÞ; ð9Þ
B ¼ P2CA=U; ð10Þ
P1 ¼ N=ð1 þ iÞ; ð11Þ
P1CEHQ À P2CAAHX À CF ¼ 0: ð12Þ
The sign concerning the square root of D must be taken as
negative to get a physically correct effectiveness value, since
30 35 40 45
T [ºC]
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
ε
o
Rm / m = 1o
. .Evaporator Side
Condenser Side T = 26 [ C]R
o
0.8 1.2 1.6 2.0 2.4 2.8
m / m
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
ε
R o
Evaporator Side
Condenser Side
T = 40 [ C]o
o
. .
Fig. 4. Effect of fresh air temperature and return air mass flow on effectiveness, e.
30 35 40 45
T [ºC]
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1.0
ξ
o
Rm / m = 1o
. .
Evaporator Side
Condenser Side
T = 26 [ C]R
o
0.8 1.2 1.6 2.0 2.4 2.8
m / m
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1.0ξ
R o
Evaporator Side
Condenser Side
T = 40 [ C]o
o
. .
Fig. 5. Effect of fresh air temperature and return air mass flow on enthalpy ratio, n.
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e must be between 0 and 1. A computational program was
developed to calculate the optimum effectiveness of the
heat pipe heat exchanger. For a typical HPHE problem
as illustrated in [18,20], it is assumed that CE = 10À4
$/
(W h), H = 4000 h yearÀ1
, CA = 100 $/m2
, CF = 10,000$,
and i = 0.085. From our experiments, the average heat
transferred per heat pipe, Q is 50 W, the average overall
heat transfer coefficient, U is 29 W mÀ2
KÀ1, and the heat
transfer area of finned evaporator section, AHX is 8.42 m2
.
The temperature of fresh air, Tmax,is in the range of 32–
40 °C, and the temperature of return air, Tmin is kept con-
stant at about 26 °C (see Figs. 4 and 5).
The values of heat transferred through one heat pipe
compared to the sonic and entrainment limits are illus-
trated in Fig. 6. The data was taken at fresh air tempera-
ture of 32, 36.2 and 40 °C. It can be seen that the heat
transferred at fresh air temperature of 32 and 36.2 °C is
lower than the sonic and entrainment limits. But, at fresh
air temperature of 40 °C, the heat transferred is above
the sonic limit, which means that the vapor is superheated
in the evaporator section. The main parameters affecting
the optimum effectiveness are Q, U, DTmax and CF. Fig. 7
shows the comparison between experimental effectiveness
and calculated optimum effectiveness with neglecting CF.
It is observed that the experimental effectiveness is close
to the optimum effectiveness at low temperature of fresh
air. It is also seen that, the optimum effectiveness of the
heat pipe heat exchanger increases, when the fresh air tem-
perature was increased.
4. Conclusions
The experimental study of heat pipe heat exchanger for
cooling fresh air with return air in air conditioning leads to
the following conclusions:
1. The temperature changes of fresh air, hot, and return
air, cold, are increased with increasing the inlet temper-
ature of fresh air.
2. The heat transfer and effectiveness for both evaporator
and condenser sections are increased with increasing
the fresh air inlet temperature.
3. Increasing the return to fresh air mass flow rate ratios by
about two times leads to increase the temperature
change of fresh air about 20% and effectiveness of the
heat pipe heat exchanger by about 26%.
4. The effect of mass flow rate ratio on effectiveness is
positive for evaporator side and negative for condenser
side.
5. The enthalpy ratio between the heat recovery and con-
ventional air mixing is increased with increasing the inlet
fresh air temperature and decreased with increasing
mass flow rate of return air.
6. The heat recovery is increased with increasing inlet fresh
air temperature and attained about 85%.
7. The calculated data showed that the heat transferred
through the heat pipes at fresh air temperature of 32
and 36.2 °C is lower than the sonic and entrainment lim-
its. But, for fresh air temperature of 40 °C, the heat
transferred is above the sonic limit, which means that
the vapor is superheated in the evaporator section.
8. The maximum deviation between experimental data of
effectiveness and the calculated optimum effectiveness
at the same conditions is less than 3.6%.
9. The main parameters affecting the optimum effectiveness
are Q, U, DTmax and CF and the experimental data of
effectiveness are close to optimum effectiveness at low
temperature of fresh air, which is near the operating
temperature of working fluid inside the heat pipe.
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