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Performance of natural refrigerants in two phase flow
Yushazaziah Mohd Yunos1, Mohd Azhar Rosli2, Normah Mohd Ghazali3, Pamitran, Agus Sujiantro4.
The search for alternative environmentally friendly refrigerants have never been so crucial
with the increasing demand for effective cooling of increasing miniaturization of our heat
exchanging devices in the ever expanding air-conditioning and refrigeration industry.
Although propane (R290) and ammonia (R717), natural refrigerants, have been around for
decades, their two-phase thermal performance in small channels has yet to be fully
investigated. Predictions of the heat transfer using correlations developed based on past
experimental data have shown poor agreements, with more correlations being developed
to date. This research was done to investigate the optimized conditions for the two-phase
boiling heat transfer coefficient of R290 and R717 where the contributions from nucleate
boiling and forced convective are represented explicitly. Multi-objective Genetic
Algorithm (MOGA) is utilized for the simultaneous maximization of nucleate boiling and
forced convective, two conflicting phenomena – the former generally significant in the low
vapor quality region while the latter in the high quality region. A superposition correlation is
used as it sums up both contributions. Two phased-out refrigerants, R134a and R22 are also
being research here for comparison purposes. The range of MOGA design parameters set
for mass flux, G, is between 100 - 300 kg/m2.s, heat flux q between 5 - 30 kW/m2 and vapor
quality, x for 0.0009 - 0.9. The optimization is done for 3 mm channel diameter with
saturation temperature at 10ËšC. The optimized results showed a strong contribution of each
nucleate boiling and forced convective for R717 with increasing vapor quality, compared
to the other three refrigerants. The optimized value of the total heat transfer coefficient for
R717 could reach up to 90 kW/m2.K and for R290 up to 12 kW/m2.K compared to R134a
and R22 at 6 kW/m2.K and 5 kW/m2.K respectively. At lower vapor quality, the nucleate
boiling contributes more to the total heat transfer coefficient, and suppressed due to
forced convective as the vapor quality reaches middle range. The theoretical results
indicate the potential of R717 and R290 as replacement refrigerants for R22 and R134a with
further verifications to be done with correlations not using the superposition method.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
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