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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFRIGERATION-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DU FROID
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 197-203Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2007.06.012
Keywords
refrigeration system; compression; expansion; tube; capillaire; correlation; flow; refrigerant; R12; R22; R134a; R290; R407C; R410A; R404A
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The capillary tube is often served as an expansion device in small refrigeration and air-conditioning systems. In this paper, a generalized correlation for predicting the refrigerant mass flow rate through the adiabatic capillary tube is developed with approximate analytic solutions based on the extensive data for R12, R22, R134a, R290, R600a, R410A, R407C, and R404A, in which a homogeneous equilibrium model for two-phase flow is employed, and there is a subcooled liquid or saturated two-phase mixture at the inlet of the capillary tubes. The collected database about capillary tubes covers the inner diameter from 0.5 mm to 2 mm, the tube length from 0.5 m to 5 m, the condensing temperature from 20 degrees C to 60 degrees C, the subcooling from 0 degrees C to 20 degrees C, and the quality from 0 to 0.3 at the inlet. Assessments for the correlation are made with some experimental data for R12, R22, R134a, R290, R407C, R410A, and R404A obtained from the open literature and some existing correlations based on the experimental database also. The present correlation yields an average deviation of -0.83% and a standard deviation of 9.02% from the database. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd and IIR. All rights reserved.
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