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An Experimental Study of the Surface Treatment Effect on the Frosting/Defrosting Behavior of a Fin-Tube Heat Exchanger (휜-관 열교환기의 착.제상 거동에 대한 표면처리의 영향에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Jhee, Sung;Lee, Kwan-Soo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.1062-1068
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    • 2000
  • The effect of heat exchanger surface treatment on the frosting/defrosting behavior in a fin-tube heat exchanger is investigated experimentally. It is found that the hydrophilic surface mainly influences on the frosting behavior, however, the hydrophobic surface gives some influence on the defrosting behavior. In view of frosting performance, surface-treated heat exchanger with either hydrophilic or hydrophobic characteristic shows a little improvement in the thermal performance than the aluminium heat exchanger with no surface treatment. The result reveals that the heat exchanger with hydrophobic surface treatment is more effective in view of the defrosting efficiency and time. The amounts of residual water on the surface-treated heat exchangers are shown to be smaller than those of the bare heat exchanger, therefore further improvements on the performance of re-operations are expected.

Heat Transfer Experiment and Analysis to Predict the Efficiency of Heat Exchanger for Deep Geothermal System (심부지열 용 동축 열교환기 성능예측을 위한 열전달 실험 및 해석)

  • Jung, Kuk-Jin;Jeong, Yoon-Seong;Park, Jun Su;Lee, Dong Hyun
    • Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2017
  • The Heat exchanger for deep geothermal system is very important to enhance the efficiency of the system. The co-axial heat exchanger is used due to the limitation of digging space. The heat transfer on the external surface of outer pipe should be high to receive a large amount of heat from the ground. However, the inner pipe should be insulated to reduce the heat loss and increase the temperature of discharge water. This study made experiment apparatus to describe the co-axial heat exchanger and measure the heat transfer coefficients on the internal and external surface. And the pin-fin was designed and fixed on the internal surface to increase the efficiency of heat exchanger. Finally, we calculated the temperature of discharge water using the heat transfer circuit of co-axial heat exchanger and heat transfer coefficient which from experimental results. The water temperature was reached the ground temperature at -500 m and following the ground temperature. When the water return to the ground surface, the water temperature was decreased due to heat loss. As the pin-fin case, the heat transfer coefficient on the internal surface was decreased by 30% and it mean that the pin-fin help to insulate the inner pipe. However, the discharge water temperature did not change although pin-fin fixed on the inner pipe.

The effect of surface contact angle on the behavior of frost formation in a fin-tube heat exchanger (핀-관 열교환기의 착상 거동에 대한 표면 접촉각의 영향)

  • Lee, K. S.;Jhee, S.;Lee, D. W.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.95-101
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    • 2000
  • The effect of surface contact angle on the behavior of frost formation in a fin-tube heat exchanger is investigated experimentally. It is shown that both heat exchangers with hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces appear to have a better thermal performance than bare aluminium heat exchanger, but the improvements are very small. There is a little increase in the amount of the frost deposited onto the heat exchanger with both hydrophilic and hydrophobic surface. However, the effect of contact angle on the frost density is observed ; the frost with high density forms on the heat exchanger with hydrophilic surface ; and the frost with low density is deposited onto the heat exchanger with hydrophobic surface when compared with the frost deposited onto the heat exchanger with bare aluminium surface. This may be attributed to the fact that the shape of water droplets which condense on the surface of heat exchanger at the early stage of frosting varies with contact angle, and thus makes a difference on the structure of frost formation. From the experiments with different relative humidity of inlet air, it is shown that the variations of operating parameter make no influence on the effect of surface contact angle on the frosting behavior in the heat exchanger.

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A study of defrosting behavior according to surface characteristics in a fin-tube heat exchanger (표면 특성에 따른 휜-관 열교환기의 제상 거동에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kwan-Soo;Kim, Jun-Mo;Ji, Sung
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.921-927
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    • 1999
  • In this study, the defrosting behaviors according to the surface characteristics in the fin-tube heat exchanger is experimentally examined. It is found that the draining rate of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic heat exchangers are evenly dispersed during defrosting, compared with that of the bare one. It is caused by the high density frost for the hydrophilic heat exchanger, and surface characteristic for the hydrophobic heat exchanger, respectively. The rest period of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic heat exchangers are shorter and their weight of residual water are smaller than those of the bare heat exchanger The hydrophilic and hydrophobic heat exchangers are more effective than the bare one in terms of defrosting efficiency, and the hydrophobic heat exchanger is better than the hydrophilic one.

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A Study of the Defrosting Behavior according to Surface Characteristics of a Fin-Tube Heat Exchanger

  • Jhee, Sung;Lee, Kwan-Soo
    • International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.101-107
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    • 2000
  • In this study, the defrosting behavior according to the surface characteristics of a fin-tube heat exchanger is experimentally examined. It has been found that the draining rates of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic heat exchangers are evenly dispersed during do-frosting, compared with that of the bare one. This is due to the high density frost of the hydrophilic heat exchanger, and the surface characteristics of the hydrophobic heat ex-changer, The rest periods of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic heat exchangers are shorter, and their weight of residual water is also smaller than that of the bare heat exchanger. The hydrophobic heat exchanger is the most efficient in terms of the defrosting efficiency.

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A Study of Correlation between DCA and WHS in Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchanger (핀-관 열교환기에서 동적접촉각과 물맺힘량과의 상관관계에 관한 연구)

  • 황준현;고영환;신종민
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.786-791
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    • 2002
  • An experimental study on the behavior of the water hold-up by spraying of a fin-and-tube heat exchanger with regard to the surface characteristics, i.e., contact angles, was conducted. The dynamic contact angles (DCA) were measured, and water hold-up by spraying (WHS) was conducted in the experiment. It is found that heat exchanger surface characteristics, spray pressure, spray water temperature and heat exchanger surface temperature play an important role in WHS. In order to evaluate relationship between WHS and surface characteristics, test conditions are determined through a contour analysis. A correlation was proposed to predict WHS as a function of DCA. With its test efficiency and consuming time, the prediction method can be used to evaluate WHS performance.

Analysis on Wetting Behavior of A Lamellar Type Wet Channels in An Evaporative Heat Exchanger (층상구조를 가진 증발식 열교환기 습채널의 표면 젖음도 해석)

  • Oh, Dong-Wook;Park, Jae Bum;Song, Chan Ho
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.28 no.7
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    • pp.283-287
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    • 2016
  • One of the most important factors for determining the thermal performance of an evaporative cooling system is the wettability of the evaporative heat exchanger surface. Evaporation of a widely spread water film on the heat exchanger surface promotes heat transfer between the "dry" air and "wet" air passages. Hydrophilic coating is generally applied on the heat exchanger surfaces to increase the wettability of the heat exchanger surface and the COP of the evaporative cooling system. In this paper, a simple lamellar patterned structure is suggested to maximize the spreading of a water film on the vertically oriented walls. The capillary height of the lamellar structured grooves is analyzed through a theoretical model, and the results are compared with the numerical analysis through a finite element analysis tool, SE-FIT. A good agreement between the theoretical model and the numerical analysis can be observed as long as the channel depth is comparable to or larger than the channel width of the lamellar structure.

Development of Thermal Storage System in Plastic Greenhouse (I) -Development of Air-Water Heat Exchange System- (플라스틱 온실(溫室)의 열저장(熱貯藏) 시스템 개발(開發)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究)(I) -수막식(水膜式) 열교환(熱交換) 시스템의 개발(開發)-)

  • Kim, Y.H.;Koh, H.K.;Kim, M.K.
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.14-22
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    • 1990
  • For efficient use of solar energy in plastic greenhouse, thermal storage system was developed. The system was constructed with the counter-flow type air-water heat exchanger using a thin polyethylene film as a medium of heat exchange parts. Experiments were carried out to investigate the heat exchange rate, optimum water flow rate, overall heat transfer coefficient, and the effectiveness of the counter-flow type air-water heat exchanger with polyethylene film bags. Mathematical model to predict air temperature leaving heat exchanger was developed. The results obtained in the present study are summarized as follows. 1. Heat exchange rate in the counter-flow type air-water heat exchanger with polyethylene film bags was compared to that of polyethylene film. Heat exchange rate was almost identical at air velocity of 0.5m/s on polyethylene film surface. But, heat exchange rate of heat exchanger with polyethylene film bag was $32{\sim}55KJ/m^2$ hr higher than that of polyethylene film at air velocity of 1.0m/s. 2. Considering the formation of uniform water film and the sufficient heat exchange rate of polyethylene film bags, optimum water flow rate in polyethylene film bags was $3.0{\sim}6.0{\ell}/m^2$ min. 3. The overall heat transfer coefficient of polyethylene film bags was found to be $35.0{\sim}130.0KJ/m^2\;hr\;^{\circ}C$ corresponding to the air velocity ranging 0.5 to 4.0 m/s on polyethylene film surface. And the overall heat transfer coefficient showed almost linearly increasing tendency to the variation of air velocity. 4. Mathematical model to predict air temperature leaving the heat exchanger was developed, resulting in a good agreement between the experimental and predicted values. But, the experimental results were a little lower than predicted. 5. Effectiveness of heat exchanger for the experiment was found to be 0.40~0.81 corresponding to the number of transfer units due to the variation of air velocity ranging 0.6 to 1.7 m/s.

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Heating Performance of Heat Pump System Using Dual Heat Source and Its Operation Characteristics (이중 열원 히트펌프 시스템의 난방 성능과 운전 특성)

  • Lim, Hyojae;Sohn, Byonghu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.30-41
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    • 2021
  • This paper presents the heating performance analysis results of a heat pump system using a dual heat source. In this paper, a dual heat source refers to the ground-coupled heat exchanger using both a surface water heat exchanger (SWHE) and a vertical ground heat exchanger (VGHE). In order to evaluate the system performance, we installed a monitoring system to measure the temperature and power consumption of a heat pump and then collected operation data with 4 different load burdened ratios of the dual heat source heat exchanger. During the whole measurement period, the average heating capacity of a water-to-water heat pump unit was 37.3 kW. In addition, the compressor of the heat pump consumed 9.4 kW of power, while the circulating pump of the dual heat source heat exchanger used 6.7 kW of power. Therefore the average heating coefficient of performance (COP) for the heat pump unit was 4.0, while the entire system including the circulating pump was 2.7. Finally, the parallel use of SWHE and VGHE was beneficial to the system performance; however, further researches are needed to optimize the design data for various load ratios of the dual heat source heat exchanger.

The Effect of Water Contact Angles of the Fin Surfaces of the Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchangers on the Water Hold-up (핀-관 열교환기에서의 핀의 물 접촉각이 응축잔수량에 미치는 영향)

  • 신종민;이남교;한성주;하삼철
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.490-496
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    • 2001
  • An experimental study on the behavior of the water hold-up by condensation of a fin-and-tube heat exchanger with regard to the surface characteristics, i.e., contact angle, was conducted. The static and dynamic contact angles were measured, and condensation experiments were conducted. Flow patterns on the fins with different surface characteristics were visualized. Results showed that the static contact angle is proportional to the dynamic contact angle within the range of this study. The water hold-up of the heat exchanger increases as the static or dynamic contact angle of its surfaces increases. Existence of transition of flow patterns was found as the static or dynamic angle increase. Due to the transition in the flow patterns, changes in the gradient of the water hold-up is occurred around the static angle of 8$0^{\circ}C$.

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