The Effect of the Capillary Tube Coil Number on the Refrigeration System Performance

K. Salim, Thamir

	The Effect of the Capillary Tube Coil Number on the Refrigeration System Performance
Tikrit Journal of Engineering Sciences
Article 1, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 18-29 PDF (0 K)
Author
Thamir K. Salim
Abstract
The capillary tube performance for (R134a) is experimentally investigated. The experimental setup is a real vapor compression refrigeration system. All properties of the refrigeration system are measured for various mass flow rate from (13 – 23 kg/hr) and capillary tube coil number (0-4) with fixed length (150 cm) and capillary diameter (2.5mm). The results showed that the theoretical compression power increases by (65.8 %) as the condenser temperature increases by (2.71%), also the theoretical compression power decreases by (10.3 %) as the capillary tube coil number increases. The study shows also that the cooling capacity increases by (65.3%) as the evaporator temperature increases by (8.4 %), and the cooling capacity increases by (1.6%)as the capillary tube coil number increases in the range (0-4). The coefficient of performance decreases by (43.4 %), as the mass flow rate increases by (76.9%), also the coefficient of performance increases by (13.51 %) as the capillary tube coil number increases in the range (0-4). Through this study, it was found that the best coil number in refrigeration cycle at the lowest mass flow rate (13 Kg/hr) and at high mass flow rate (23 Kg/hr) is (coil number = 4), this will give the highest performance, cooling capacity and lowest theoretical compression power. An experimental relationship has been adopted between the coefficients of performance (COP) against . خلال هذه الدراسةِ وُجِد أن أفضل عددِ لفات في دورةِ التبريدِ عند اقل معدل تدفق (13 kg /hr) و أعلى معدل تدفق (23 Kg /hr) هو (عدد اللفات = 4)، والتي أعطت أعلى أداء وسعة تبريد واقل قدرة انضغاط نظرية.من هذه الدراسة استنبطت علاقة تجريبية بين معامل الأداء (COP) يقابل
Keywords
straight and coil Capillary tube; Refrigeration cycle Performance

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