简介:CharacteristicsofR22anditsnewalternativerefrigerantR290flowingthroughadiabaticcapillarytubesareinvestigatedbasedonthehomogeneousmodel.Extensiveflowvariablesalongtubelengthsuchaspressure,temperature,viscosity,velocity,Reynoldsnumber,frictionfactorandvaporqualityetcarecomparedbetweenthetwofluidsunderthesameoperatingcondition.Twocasesareconsidered,namely,eitherthesametubelengthorthesamemassflowrateasinletcondition.TheresultsshowthatthemassflowrateinthecapillarytubeofR290is40%lowerthanthatofR22duetothedifferencesofphysicalpropertiesbetweenthetwofluids.Further,aparametricanalysisisperformedanditappearsthateffectsofgeometricandthermodynamicparametersonmassflowrateofR290areweakerthanthatofR22.Whenthecondensingtemperatureisincreasedfrom40℃to50℃,themassflowrateforR22isincreasedby16%,whiletheincreasingrateforR290is13%.
简介:AhomogeneoustheoreticalmodelisdevelopedtopredicttheperformanceofR22andR290inadiabaticcapillarytubes.Themodelisbasedonconservationequationsofmass,momentumandenergy.Metastablebothliquidandtwo-phaseflowregionsareconsideredinthemodel.Inmetastabletwo-phaseregion,superheatedliquidisintroducedintothemetastablemixtureviscosityandtwomethodsarepresentedtoevaluateit.Themodelisvalidatedbycomparingthepredictedpressureandtemperatureprofileandmassflowratewithseveralinvestigators′experimentaldataofR22andoneofitsalternativesR290reportedinliterature.Allofthepredictedmassflowratesarewithin±8%ofmeasuredvalues.Comparisonsarealsomadebetweenthepresentmodelandotherinvestigators′modelsorsizingcorrelation.Themodelcanbeusedfordesignorsimulationcalculationofadiabaticcapillarytubes.