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Thermal and CFD Analysis of Fin Tube Evaporator with Different Configurations, Materials and Fluids 1 2 3 L. OMKAR GOUD , A. ASHOK , MANIKANTH VATALA 1PG Scholar, Mallareddy College of Engineering, JNTUH, Hyderabad, TS, India, Email: [email protected]. 2Assistant Professor, Mallareddy College of Engineering, JNTUH, Hyderabad, TS, India, Email: [email protected]. 3PG Scholar, Mallareddy College of Engineering, JNTUH, Hyderabad, TS, India, Email: [email protected].

Abstract: An evaporator is used in an air-conditioning system or system to allow a compressed cooling chemical, such as or R-22, to evaporate from liquid to gas while absorbing heat in the process. It can also be used to remove water or other liquids from mixtures. The process of is widely used to concentrate foods and chemicals as well as salvage . In the concentration process, the goal of evaporation is to vaporize most of the water from a solution which contains the desired product. In this thesis, different configurations of fin tube evaporator are modeled in 3D modeling software Pro/Engineer. The temperature distribution, rate is analyzed by thermal and CFD analysis done in Ansys. Thermal analysis is done on four different configurations are continuous fin, continuous fins with zig-zag tubes, interrupted fin and interrupted fin with zig- zag tubes with different materials for evaporator Aluminum, Aluminum alloy 7075 and Copper. CFD analysis is done by varying fluids R134a, R22a and R410a on all the configurations.

Keywords: CFD, Fin Tube, 3D Modeling, Ansys.

I. INTRODUCTION In the evaporator, the is evaporated by the heat An evaporator is used in an air-conditioning system or transferred from the heat source. The heat source may be a refrigeration system to allow a compressed cooling chemical, gas or a liquid or, e.g. in food freezers, a solid. During such as Freon or R-22, to evaporate from liquid to gas while evaporation, the temperature of a pure refrigerant is constant, absorbing heat in the process. It can also be used to remove as long as the pressure does not change. The basic water or other liquids from mixtures. The process of temperature profile through an evaporator with liquid or gas evaporation is widely used to concentrate foods and phase heat source is therefore as shown in Fig.1 .As shown; chemicals as well as salvage solvents. In the concentration the temperature of the refrigerant must be below that of the process, the goal of evaporation is to vaporize most of the heat source. This low refrigerant temperature is attained as a water from a solution which contains the desired product. result of the reduction in pressure caused by the : Evaporation is an operation used to remove a liquid from a When the compressor is started and the pressure reduced, the solution, suspension, or emulsion by boiling off a portion of equilibrium between liquid and vapour in the evaporator is the liquid. It is thus a thermal separation, or thermal disturbed. To re-establish equilibrium, more vapour is formed concentration, process. We define the evaporation process as through evaporation of liquid. The heat of one that starts with a liquid product and ends up with a more necessary for this is taken from the liquid itself, and therefore concentrated, but still liquid and still pump able concentrate the liquid temperature drops. As heat starts to flow from the as the main product from the process. heat source, a new equilibrium temperature is established. In the evaporator there is thus a balance between the heat transferred to it due to the temperature difference between the evaporator and the surroundings, and the heat transferred from it in the form of heat of vaporization of the vapour drawn into the compressor. The evaporator is one of the four basic and necessary hardware components of the refrigeration system. Pressure drop, heat transfer rate, evaporation rate and most important thing is efficiency of evaporator, all four things are increase and improve by getting optimum parameter of evaporator, this optimum parameter of evaporator are generated with the help of experimental data and CFD analysis. Fig.1.

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L. OMKAR GOUD, A. ASHOK, MANIKANTH VATALA II. EXPERIMENTAL DATA OF FIN TUBE EVAPORATOR The experimental investigation has been carried out at IC ICE MAKE REFRIGERATION to improve the performance characteristics of evaporator. The following data are collected during experiment.

Parameter of Evaporator: 1. Tube Outer Diameter: 9.53 mm

2. Tube Inner Diameter: 8.53 mm

3. Tube thickness: 0.5mm

4. Tube Pitch (Longitudinal and Transverse both):

Longitudinal pitch=25mm, transverse pitch=30mm Fig.4.

9. Overall Size of Evaporator: 1448*406.4mm

Fig.5.

Fig.2. 10. Material of Fin: aluminum

5. Tube Material: Copper 11. Tube bending Radius: 30mm

6. No. of Turns: 9

7. Fin Pitch and thickness: pitch=4.33mm,fins thickness =0.25mm

Fig.6.

12. Inlet Temperature and Pressure (Experimental):259k

13. Outlet Temperature (Experimental):269k

14. Mass flow rate: 1.5 kg/sec Fig.3. Experimental model of evaporator 15. Tube Fluid: R-22 8. Position of inlet and Outlet: International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology Research Volume.04, IssueNo.29, August-2015, Pages: 5628--5633 Thermal and CFD Analysis of Fin Tube Evaporator with Different Configurations, Materials and Fluids 16. Refrigerant: R-22 IV. MODELLING OF FIN TUBE EVAPORATOR After Getting Experimental data, the modeling has been 17. Mass of refrigerant: 1.5kg performed on the Solid works 2009 version and then after the analysis work has been performed on the ANSYS 12.0 18. Capillary length: 11' + 6 coil version. 19. Capillary diameter: 0.036 mm

An evaporator is the main component of heat exchange between the working fluid (The refrigerant) and the environment of freezer.

III. REVIEW We investigated the use of CFD in predicting performance of a steam ejector used in refrigeration applications. This study is reported in a series of two papers. In this part, the CFD results were validated with the experimental values. The effects of operating conditions and geometries on its performance were investigated. The CFD’s results were found to agree well with actual values obtained from the experimental steam jet refrigerator presented a comparable evaluation of R600a (isobutene), R290 (propane), R134a, R22, R410A, and R32 in an optimized finned-tube evaporator, and Analyzes the impact of evaporator effects on the System coefficient of performance (COP), The study Fig.7. Isometric Model of Evaporator. relied on a detailed evaporator model derived from NIST’s EVAP-COND simulation package and used the ISHED1 scheme employing a non-Darwinian learnable evolution model for circuitry optimization observed that 1. Case-I shows calculation for actual readings and case-II shows calculation for simulation when inlet temperature of oil & cooling water are kept unchanged. 2. As the outlet temperature of oil is 1 degree less in case-II, the values of heat transfer rate, overall heat transfer coefficient & effectiveness are higher for case-II compared to the case-I. 3.

Case-II, III & IV shows the calculation and results for simulation readings. The cooling water inlet temperature is gradually decreased by 2 degree in each case. 4. As the temperature difference between oil inlet temperature and water inlet temperature, becomes larger, the values of qmax increases. This is why, the heat transfer rate, overall heat Fig.8. Top view. transfer co-efficient and effectiveness is higher in case-III and case-VI compared to case-II. The CFD analysis enables us to find out, on an average base, the performance of an actually operating . We can also come to know the temperatures at any points in heat exchanger. However, the results available through CFD analysis are for the ideal condition, i.e. for no loss operating condition said that the numerical simulations of dimple jacket constructions were performed by a computational (CFD) program FLUENT in this work. The effects of geometrical parameters such as cone angle, arrangement, interval and height of dimple on heat transfer and pressure drop of dimple jackets in thin-film evaporator were investigated numerically. The results of numerical simulations were provided for comparison in order to get advisable configuration. The distance between dimples was found to have a considerable effect on heat transfer and in-line configuration was recommended because the pressure drop in it was smaller under the same heat transfer rate.

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L. OMKAR GOUD, A. ASHOK, MANIKANTH VATALA V. RESULTS A. Thermal Analysis Case 1: TABLE1. CONTINUOUS FIN

CASE 2: TABLE II. CONTINUOUS FINS WITH ZIG –ZAG TUBES

Fig.10. Front view.

A. CFD Analysis of Evaporator The equations of fluid mechanics which have been known for over a century are solvable only for a limited no. of flows. The known solutions are extremely useful in understanding fluid flow but rarely used directly in engineering analysis or CASE 3: design. CFD makes it possible to evaluate velocity, pressure, TABLE III. INTERRUPTED FIN temperature, and species concentration of fluid flow throughout a solution domain, allowing the design to be optimized prior to the prototype phase. Availability of fast and digital computer makes techniques popular among engineering community. Solutions of the equations of fluid mechanics on computer has become so important that it now occupies the attention of a perhaps a third of all researchers in fluid mechanics and the proportion is still is increasing. CASE 4: This field is known as computational fluid dynamics. At the TABLE IV. INTERRUPTED FIN WITH ZIG-ZAG core of the CFD modeling is a three-dimensional flow solver TUBES that is powerful, efficient, and easily extended to custom engineering applications. In designing a new mixing device, injection grid or just a simple gas diverter or a distribution device, design engineers need to ensure adequate geometry, pressure loss, and residence time would be available. More importantly, to run the plant efficiently and economically, operators and plant engineers need to know and be able to set the optimum parameters. Outlet Temperature of Refrigerant B. CFD Analysis Case 1: TABLE V. CONTINUOUS FIN

CASE 2: TABLE VI. CONTINUOUS FINS WITH ZIG–ZAG TUBES

Fig.11. Outlet Temperature of Refrigerant.

International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology Research Volume.04, IssueNo.29, August-2015, Pages: 5628--5633 Thermal and CFD Analysis of Fin Tube Evaporator with Different Configurations, Materials and Fluids CASE 3: D. Comparison Graphs for Output Parameters For All TABLE VII. INTERRUPTED FIN Cases of Fins For Different

CASE 4: TABLE VIII. INTERRUPTED FIN WITH ZIG-ZAG TUBES

Fig14.

C. Comparison Graphs for Nodal Temperature and Heat Flux With Respect To Materials for All Cases

Fig15. Fig12.

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Fig18. International Conference on Sustainable Energy and VI. CONCLUSION Environment (SEE 2014): Science, Technology and In this thesis, different configurations of fin tube evaporator Innovation for ASEAN Green Growth 19-21 November are modeled in 3D modeling software Pro/Engineer. 2014. Different configurations are continuous fin, continuous fins with zig-zag tubes, interrupted fin and interrupted fin with zig-zag tubes with different materials for evaporator Aluminum, Aluminum alloy 7075 and Copper and different fluids R134a, R22a and R410a. Thermal and CFD analysis is done in Ansys. By observing the thermal analysis results, the configuration of fin tube evaporator with configuration of continuous fins and zig-zag tubes has more heat transfer rate than other configurations for copper materials. By observing the CFD analysis results, heat transfer, mass flow rate is more for continuous fins and zig-zag tubes configuration. The heat transfer coefficient is more for configuration of interrupted fin with zig-zag tubes. The results better for fluid R22a. So it can be concluded that to get better performance, using continuous fins and zig-zag tubes configuration, fluid R22a and copper are preferable.

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