Zhang Li, Xu Shiming, Du Ping, et al. Performance of a Small-sized Auto-cascade Refrigerator with a Fractionation Heat Exchanger[J]. Journal of refrigeration, 2015, 36(4).
DOI:
Zhang Li, Xu Shiming, Du Ping, et al. Performance of a Small-sized Auto-cascade Refrigerator with a Fractionation Heat Exchanger[J]. Journal of refrigeration, 2015, 36(4). DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4339.2015.04.052.
Performance of a Small-sized Auto-cascade Refrigerator with a Fractionation Heat Exchanger
A fractionation heat exchanger was employed to improve the separation efficiency of CO2 and propane in the small-sized auto-cascade refrigeration cycle. The effects of CO2 mass concentration
vapor quality at condenser outlet and the outlet temperature on the high-pressure side of the fractionation heat exchanger were analyzed. Results show that as CO2 mass concentration grows from 0.22 to 0.31
the evaporating temperatures of the experiment and theoretical calculation are raised by 6.8 K and 5.7 K
respectively. And the corresponding COP is increased by 68.3% and 24.9%
respectively. Simulation data also reveal that as the vapor quality increases from 0.5 to 0.9
the evaporating temperature reaches the minimum of 211.37 K and COP drops sharply by 98.8% at a vapor quality of 0.7. In addition
when the outlet temperature on the high-pressure side of the fractionation heat exchanger is raised by 8.21 K
the evaporating temperature and COP are increased by 1.41 K and 21.3%