Wei Wei, Zhao Yu, Chen Jiangping, et al. Feasibility Study of the Ø5 Tube-and-fin Heat Exchanger in Automotive Heat Pump System[J]. Journal of refrigeration, 2013, 34(1).
Wei Wei, Zhao Yu, Chen Jiangping, et al. Feasibility Study of the Ø5 Tube-and-fin Heat Exchanger in Automotive Heat Pump System[J]. Journal of refrigeration, 2013, 34(1). DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4339.2013.01.035.
The parallel flow microchannel (PFM) heat exchanger is widely used in automotive air conditioning system
but it has the disadvantage of easy-frost and difficult in water-drain in defrost . The traditional tube and fin heat exchanger can overcome the frost and defrost problem but has low efficiency. In this paper a ?5 tube and fin heat exchanger is developed for the automotive heat pump. Performances of small diameter tube-and-fin heat exchanger and PFM heat exchanger are compared based on benchmark test. Results show that the system with small diameter tube-and-fin heat exchanger has 17.4%~23.7% higher COP in air conditioning mode
12.6%~35.8% higher COP and 15~28℃ lower compressor discharge temperature in heat pump mode
which indicates that small diameter tube-and-fin heat exchanger is a promising solution to the automotive heat pump system of electric vehicle.