Influence of two-phase suction injection on performances of the scroll refrigeration compressor with a high-temperature shell

Author(s):  
Shuaihui Sun ◽  
Wang Zhe ◽  
Li Liansheng ◽  
Bu Gaoxuan

The two-phase suction injection can reduce the discharge temperature of scroll refrigeration compressors, which work under a high-pressure ratio. The heat transfer along the pipe axis from the shell affects the two-phase suction injection significantly for the compressor with a high-temperature shell. In this paper, the suction mixing and heat transfer model was developed to calculate the heat transfer along the pipe axis from the high-temperature compressor shell. Then the model was coupled with the two-phase compressor model to obtain the compressor performance under different suction injection volume flow rates. The compressor with two-phase suction injection was tested under different injection volume flow rates to validate the model. The results indicated that the discharge temperature decreased by 2 °C when the mass injection ratio increased by 1%. As the injection volume flow rates increased, the total mass flow rate increased due to the reduction of the specific volume of the suction fluid; the input work decreased because of the reduction of specific work and the improvement of the motor's electric efficiency. The cooling capacity decreased since the cooling capacity of the injection refrigerant was wasted for cooling the suction process and the compressor shell, especially at high injection volume flow rates. The coefficient of performance reached the maximum value at the injection volume flow rate of 0.015 m3·h−1 and became lower than the coefficient of performance without injection when the injection volume flow rate raised to 0.035 m3·h−1. Hence, the two-phase suction injection can reduce the discharge temperature efficiently at low injection volume flow rates with a slight improvement of coefficient of performance.

Author(s):  
Chin-Tsan Wang ◽  
Tzong-Shyng Leu ◽  
Jui-Ming Yu ◽  
Yuh-Chung Hu

A Capillary Pumped Loop is a sort of “two-phase heat transport device”. In this study, the micro capillary pumped loop (MCPL) and temperature sensors embedded in the micro-channels were fabricated using MEMS technology. An open type of MCPL was applied to determine the thermal analysis of MCPL corresponding to different injection volume flow rates under the condition of constant heating power 20W. A series of experiments yielded numerous results and are as follows: first, a larger injection volume flow rate results in a lower system temperature. Second, the thermal bubbles begin to degenerate into smaller bubbles at Q volume = 2 μl/min. In addition, the phenomenon of slug flow is observed with increasing injection volume flow rates, especially for the case of Q volume = 15 μl/min. Although the temperature of MCPL was reduced with the injection volume rate, the MCPL possessed an almost constant temperature difference regardless of injection volume flow rate. These findings will be useful in determining the optimal design of MCPL.


1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Nakamura ◽  
G. M. Hochwald

The effect of changes in brain blood flow on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) volume flow rates, and that of changes in CSF volume flow rates on brain blood flow were determined in both normal and kaolin-induced hydrocephalic cats. In both groups of cats, blood flow in grey and white matter, cerebral cortex, and choroid plexus was measured with 105Ru microspheres during normocapnia, and again with 141Ce microspheres after arterial Pco2 was either increased by 300% or decreased by 50%. Blood flow measurements were also made during perfusion of the ventricular system with mock CSF and repeated during perfusion with anisosmotic mannitol solutions to alter CSF volume flow rate. In 30 normal and 26 hydrocephalic cats, blood flow to the cerebral cortex, white matter, and choroid plexus was similar; only blood flow to the caudate nucleus was greater in normal cats. The weight of the choroid plexus from hydrocephalic cats decreased by 17%. Blood flow in the choroid plexus of all cats decreased by almost 50% following hypercapnia or hypocapnia, without a change in the CSF volume flow rate. There was no change in cerebral or choroidal blood flow when CSF volume flow rate was either increased by 170% or decreased by 80%. These results suggest that choroid plexus blood flow does not limit or affect the volume flow rate of CSF from the choroid plexus. CSF volume flow rate can be altered without corresponding blood flow changes of the brain or choroid plexus. Choroid plexus blood flow and the reactivity of both brain and choroidal blood flow to changes in arterial Pco2 were not affected by the hydrocephalus. The lower CSF formation rate of hydrocephalic cats can be attributed in part to the decrease in the mass of choroid plexus tissue.


Author(s):  
Shailesh N. Joshi ◽  
Danny J. Lohan ◽  
Ercan M. Dede

Abstract The heat transfer and fluid flow performance of a hybrid jet plus multipass microchannel heat sink in two-phase operation is evaluated for the cooling of a single large area, 3.61 cm2, heat source. The two-layer branching microchannel heat sink is evaluated using HFE-7100 as the coolant at three inlet volumetric flow rates of 150, 300, and 450 ml/min. The boiling performance is highest for the flow rate of 450 ml/min with the maximum heat flux value of 174 W/cm2. Critical heat flux (CHF) was observed at two of the tested flow rates, 150 and 300 ml/min, before reaching the maximum operating temperature for the serpentine heater. At 450 ml/min, the heater reached the maximum allowable temperature prior to observing CHF. The maximum pressure drop for the heat sink is 34.1 kPa at a heat flux of 164 W/cm2. Further, the peak heat transfer coefficient value of the heat sink is 28,700 W/m2 K at a heat flux value of 174 W/cm2 and a flow rate of 450 ml/min. Finally, a validated correlation of the single device cooler is presented that predicts heat transfer performance and can be utilized in the design of multidevice coolers.


Author(s):  
Hussein Maghrabie ◽  
Hamouda Mousa

Abstract Recent progress in nanotechnology has lead to a revolution in the automotive cooling system. In the present work, enhancement of car radiator thermal performance was investigated using different nanofluids named SiO2/water, ZnO/water nanofluids as cooling mediums. The present study mainly aims to investigate the impact of (5 wt.%) from SiO2 and ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) dispersed in water based on car radiator heat transfer with spherical and hexagonal morphology, respectively. The experiments were performed in two working conditions of the nanofluids i.e coolant temperature and volume flow rate, moreover the present results were compared with the previous studies. The experimental working conditions were set at coolant inlet temperature (tc,i) ranged from 45 oC to 80 oC and the coolant volume flow rate (V) ranged from 3.5 lit/min to 6.5 lit/min. The experimental results show that the hexagonal ZnO/water nanofluid was superior towards enhancement of car radiator thermal performance comparing to that of SiO2 NPs. Additionally, at 6.5 lit/min and 45 °C, the enhancements of car radiator effectiveness due to using SiO2 and ZnO based water nanofluids and compared with that for the based water were 13.9% and 16%, respectively. The present study used the multiple regression analysis (MRA) and hence empirical correlations are suggested to estimate the overall heat transfer coefficient (U) for all coolants as functions of volume flow rate (V) and the coolant inlet temperature (tc,i) with a maximum STDEV of ± 1.85%.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M. Abd-Alla ◽  
S.M. Abo-Dahab ◽  
M.A. Abdelhafez ◽  
Esraa N. Thabet

PurposeThis article aims to describe the effect of an endoscope and heat transfer on the peristaltic flow of a Jeffrey fluid through the gap between concentric uniform tubes.Design/methodology/approachThe mathematical model of the present problem is carried out under long wavelength and low Reynolds number approximations. Analytical solutions for the velocity, temperature profiles, pressure gradient and volume flow rate are obtained.FindingsThe results indicate that the effect of the wave amplitude, radius ratio, Grashof number, the ratio of relaxation to retardation times and the radius are very pronounced in the phenomena. Also, a comparison of obtaining an analytical solution against previous literatures shows satisfactory agreement.Originality/valueAnalytical solutions for the velocity, temperature profiles, pressure gradient and volume flow rate are obtained. Numerical integration is performed to analyze the pressure rise and frictional forces on the inner and outer tubes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Muzammil Zubair ◽  
Md. Seraj ◽  
Mohd. Faizan ◽  
Mohd Anas ◽  
Syed Mohd. Yahya

AbstractNanofluid as a transport medium displays a great potential in engineering applications involving heat transfer. In this paper, the execution of water and ethylene glycol-based TiO2 nanofluid as a radiator coolant is resolved experimentally. The convective heat transfer coefficient of TiO2/EG-Water nanocoolant has been estimated and contrasted with the information acquired experimentally. Nanocoolant were set up by taking 25% ethylene glycol and 75% water with low volume concentration of TiO2 nanoparticles. All the experiments were led for the distinctive volume flow rates in the range going from 30 to 180 L/h (LPH). The nanocoolant made to flow through curved radiator tubes in every experiment, so that it can exchange heat effectively. Result shows that increasing the volume flow rate of nanocoolant flowing in the radiator tubes, increases the heat transfer as well as the convective heat transfer coefficient of nanocooant. Maximum heat transfer enhancement of 29.5% was recorded for nanocoolant with 0.03% nanoparticle concentration as compared to water at 150 LPH. Apart from this nanoparticle concentration into the base fluid, no further enhancement in heat transfer has been observed at any volume flow rate.


This paper documents the optimization of different parameters of micro channel heat sink which enhance the heat transfer. The objective is to find the major thermal resistance in micro channel and its effect on other parameters. Water is used as a coolant and the initial values of convective heat transfer coefficient and volume flow rate are 30000 W/m2K and 1 lpm respectively. Different graph are plotted between pressure drop,heat transfer co-efficient, pressure drop,thermal resistance and flow rate to finally achieve the optimized valus of channel width and height, hydraulic diameter, thermal resistance and pressure drop. The result achieved are in good agreement with the previous researches.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Hadi O . Basher ◽  
Riyadh S Al-Turaihi ◽  
Ahmed A. Shubba

In this project, the flow distribution for air and water, and the enhancement of the heattransfer coefficient are experimentally studied. Experimental studies have been performed totest the influence of discharge, pitch, the height of ribs at a constant heat flux on thetemperature and pressure distributions. Along the channel of the test and the heat transfercoefficient, the water volume flow rate was about (5-12 L/min), the air volume flow rate wasabout (5.83-16.66 L/min), and heat were (80, 100,120, watt). An experimental rig wasconstructed within the test whole system. On the other hands, the channel has a divergentsection with an angle =15o with vertical axis. The study included changing in the ribs heightby using three values (12, 15, 18 mm) and changing the ribs pitch into three values (5, 8, 10mm).The results indicated an increasing in the local heat transfer coefficient as a result ofincreasing the discharge. While there was an inverse influence for the temperature distributionalong the test channel which drops when the discharge rise. The results also confirm that theincreasing in the pitch distance leads to reduce the heat transfer coefficient. Increasing theribs height increases the coefficient of heat transfer. However, the experiment heat transfercoefficient improves about (15.6 %) when the water volume flow rate increased from (5 to 12L/min), and about (18.7%) when the air volume flow rate increased from (5.83 to 16.66L/min). The best heat transfer coefficient was about (35.6 %) which can be achieved whenthe pitch decreased from (10 to 5mm). The increasing of the height from (12 to 18) mmimproves the heat transfer coefficient about (11.2 %). The best rib dimension was 18 mmheight, and 5 mm pitch, which give a maximum heat transfer coefficient (1212.02 W/m2. oC).


Author(s):  
Vadim E. Zinurov ◽  
Andrey V. Dmitriev ◽  
Ilnar I. Sharipov ◽  
Alsu R. Galimova

This article deals with the problem of heat energy transfer from a steam-gas mixture with a constant temperature of 220 °C. An experimental study of the transfer of heat energy from a steam-gas mixture by a recuperative heat exchanger with a ribbed surface at the industrial enterprise “PULP Invest”, located at the production site of the industrial park Technopolis “Khimgrad” in Kazan, is presented. The design of a heat exchanger with a ribbed surface is described. The finned surface of the recuperative heat exchanger allowed intensifying the transfer of heat flow, due to the appearance of turbulent vortices of the vapor-gas medium when it moves between the transversely arranged fins. For a heated heat carrier, water was used, which in the future is planned to be used for technological and economic needs. This paper presents the experimental method and measuring instruments. During the experiments, the initial temperature of the cold coolant (water) varied from 28.8 to 31.9 °C. The series of experiments included 7 experiments with a different volume flow of water from 60 to 120 liters/hour. The initial volume flow rate was 60 l/h, the flow rate change step was 10 l/h. The results of the studies showed that the time of the output of the studied parameters: temperature head, heat flow and heat transfer coefficient to the stationary mode was 265 s. When entering the stationary mode with a volume flow rate of cold coolant in the range from 60 to 120 l/h, the temperature head varied from 32.2 to 63 °C, the heat flow varied from 4.1 to 4.5 kW, the heat transfer coefficient varied in the range of 24.4-27.9 W/(m2 · K). The obtained results allowed establishing that the heat transfer coefficient is inversely proportional to the thermal resistance of the vapor-gas phase.


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