화학공학소재연구정보센터
Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol.40, No.9-10, 830-843, 2019
High-pressure Condensing Refrigerant Flows Through Microchannels, Part II: Heat Transfer Models
Condensation of high-pressure refrigerants in small-diameter channels over a wide range of reduced pressures approaching the critical point is investigated in this two-part study. Part I presented pressure drop measurements and a two-phase pressure drop model. In this paper, Part II of the study, a condensation heat transfer model is presented. Heat transfer coefficients were measured during condensation of R404A in circular channels (inner diameter = 0.86, 1.55, 3.05 mm) over the entire quality range. The saturation temperature was varied from 30 to 60 degrees C, and mass flux from 200 to 800 kg m(-2) s(-1), to evaluate their effects on condensation heat transfer coefficient. The heat transfer model is developed using a microchannel flow regime map and the void fraction model previously developed by the authors. The resulting model predicts 93.6% of the data within +/- 25%. The model exhibited good agreement with data from condensing ammonia and carbon dioxide, predicting 84.8% and 97% of their data within +/- 25%, respectively.