Study on performance of heat collecting evaporator of direct expansion solar heat pump

Jinzhou Yan, Kunhai Wang, Lin Xing, Xin Guan

Article ID: 1538
Vol 5, Issue 2, 2022

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Abstract


The heat collection evaporator was modeled based on equilibrium homogeneous theory, and the Runge-Kutta calculation method was used to analyze and solve the flow in the heat collection evaporator. The influence of environmental factors such as solar irradiance, ambient temperature and wind speed on the variation of refrigerant pressure in two kinds of heat collecting evaporator was analyzed under the set working conditions. The results show that the solar energy irradiance has a great influence on the pressure drop in the tube of serpentine heat collecting evaporator, and the maximum pressure drop of the refrigerant in the tube is 16.3%, minimum pressure drop is 7.8%. However, it has little influence on the pressure drop of the tube sheet evaporator. The maximum pressure drop in the refrigerant tube of the tube sheet evaporator is 4.8%, minimum pressure drop is 1.8%. When the irradiance reaches 800 W/m2, the refrigerant in the serpentine-tube evaporator has been completely vaporized at 6 m, it’s completely vaporized at 3 m.


Keywords


Direct Expansion Solar Heat Pump; Heat Collecting Evaporator; Equilibrium Homogeneous Theory; Pressure Drop

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24294/tse.v5i2.1538

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