Experimental Study of the Effect of Condenser Tubes Distribution for Domestic Refrigerator

The performance of a condenser in a domestic refrigerator system without wires and a condenser with a novel design consisted of number of loops as elliptical shape is investigated experimentally in this work. The experiment was conducted with a refrigerator designed to work with HFC134a, under no l...

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Autor principal: Dheya Ghanim Mutasher
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Publicado: Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering – University of Baghdad 2017
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5023c0d9f54f4375a134f245efd27b642021-12-02T10:50:06ZExperimental Study of the Effect of Condenser Tubes Distribution for Domestic Refrigerator1818-11712312-0789https://doaj.org/article/5023c0d9f54f4375a134f245efd27b642017-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://alkej.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/alkej/article/view/281https://doaj.org/toc/1818-1171https://doaj.org/toc/2312-0789 The performance of a condenser in a domestic refrigerator system without wires and a condenser with a novel design consisted of number of loops as elliptical shape is investigated experimentally in this work. The experiment was conducted with a refrigerator designed to work with HFC134a, under no load and with loads of (1.5,3 and 12 liters of water). In particular, the effects of shape change of the condenser were very important in heat transfer enhancement and reduce of the frictional loss as a result of reducing the pressure drop in the condenser. The results shown that compressor work decreases with elliptical condenser about (8.6% to 11.3%), and then the power consumption decreases also. The performance of household refrigerator with an elliptical condenser without fins was better than that of the conventional condenser without fins. Therefore, the elliptical condenser can be used instead of the conventional air cooled condenser in a domestic refrigeration system. Dheya Ghanim MutasherAl-Khwarizmi College of Engineering – University of BaghdadarticleHousehold RefrigeratorNo Wires Tube Conventional CondenserElliptical CondenserHeat TransferChemical engineeringTP155-156Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040ENAl-Khawarizmi Engineering Journal, Vol 12, Iss 1 (2017)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Household Refrigerator
No Wires Tube Conventional Condenser
Elliptical Condenser
Heat Transfer
Chemical engineering
TP155-156
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
spellingShingle Household Refrigerator
No Wires Tube Conventional Condenser
Elliptical Condenser
Heat Transfer
Chemical engineering
TP155-156
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Dheya Ghanim Mutasher
Experimental Study of the Effect of Condenser Tubes Distribution for Domestic Refrigerator
description The performance of a condenser in a domestic refrigerator system without wires and a condenser with a novel design consisted of number of loops as elliptical shape is investigated experimentally in this work. The experiment was conducted with a refrigerator designed to work with HFC134a, under no load and with loads of (1.5,3 and 12 liters of water). In particular, the effects of shape change of the condenser were very important in heat transfer enhancement and reduce of the frictional loss as a result of reducing the pressure drop in the condenser. The results shown that compressor work decreases with elliptical condenser about (8.6% to 11.3%), and then the power consumption decreases also. The performance of household refrigerator with an elliptical condenser without fins was better than that of the conventional condenser without fins. Therefore, the elliptical condenser can be used instead of the conventional air cooled condenser in a domestic refrigeration system.
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author Dheya Ghanim Mutasher
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title Experimental Study of the Effect of Condenser Tubes Distribution for Domestic Refrigerator
title_short Experimental Study of the Effect of Condenser Tubes Distribution for Domestic Refrigerator
title_full Experimental Study of the Effect of Condenser Tubes Distribution for Domestic Refrigerator
title_fullStr Experimental Study of the Effect of Condenser Tubes Distribution for Domestic Refrigerator
title_full_unstemmed Experimental Study of the Effect of Condenser Tubes Distribution for Domestic Refrigerator
title_sort experimental study of the effect of condenser tubes distribution for domestic refrigerator
publisher Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering – University of Baghdad
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