| Title |
An Experimental Study on Evaporative Heat Transfer Characteristics in Micro-Fin Tubes Before and After Expansion Process |
| Keywords |
Evaporative heat transfer coefficient ; 증발 열전달계수 ; Micro-fin tube ; 마이크로핀관 ; Tube expansion ; 확관 ; R-22 |
| Abstract |
An experimental study on evaporative heat transfer characteristics in micro-fin tubes before and after expansion process has been performed with R-22. Single-grooved micro-fin tubes with outer diameter of 9.52 mm were used as test sections, and it was uniformly heated by applying direct current to the test tubes. Experiments were conducted at mass flow rates of 20 and 30 kg/hr. For each mass flow rate condition, evaporation temperature was set at 5 and 15℃ and heat flux was changed from 6 to 11 kW/m2. The evaporative heat transfer coefficient of micro-fin tubes after expansion is decreased because of the crush of fins and enlargement of inner diameter compared to that before expansion. Convective boiling effect decreased remarkably at higher quality range in the micro-fin tube after expansion, and the difference of the heat transfer coefficient in micro-fin tubes before and after expansion was greater for higher quality region. The evaporative heat transfer coefficient of the micro-fin tube after expansion was 19.9% smaller on the average than that before expansion. |