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Study on Performance Characteristics of Spiral Fin-Tube Evaporator Applied to Domestic Refrigerator-Freezers

나선형 핀-튜브 증발기를 적용한 냉장고의 성능 특성에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2011.10.20
  • Accepted : 2012.11.23
  • Published : 2013.03.01
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Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility of replacing a conventional plate fin-tube evaporator with a spiral fin-tube evaporator by comparing the performance of domestic refrigerator-freezers adopting either the plate fin-tube evaporator or spiral fin-tube evaporator. Experiments were conducted for the domestic refrigerator-freezers using either a 2-column and 15-row plate fin-tube evaporator or three spiral fin-tube evaporators with 11, 13, and 15 tube rows (N). The optimum refrigerant charge decreased with a decrease in the number of tube rows. The power consumptions of the domestic refrigerator-freezers using the spiral fin-tube evaporators with N = 11 and 13 were 2.8% and 1.5% lower than those using the plate fin-tube evaporator, respectively. In addition, the cooling capacity of the spiral fin-tube evaporator with N = 13 was 3%-7% higher than that of the plate fin-tube evaporator under the frosting condition. In a cooling speed test, all of the evaporators showed similar performances.

본 연구는 평판 핀-튜브 증발기와 나선형 핀-튜브 증발기를 적용한 가정용 냉장고의 성능특성 비교를 통하여 기존에 사용하고 있는 핀-튜브 증발기를 나선형 핀-튜브 증발기로 대체할 수 있는 가능성을 고찰하는데 그 목적이 있다. 실험은 2단 15열의 평판 핀-튜브 증발기와 2단 15열에서 2단 11열까지 열 수를 단계적으로 감소시킨 3종류의 나선형 핀-튜브 증발기를 실제 냉장고에 적용하여 수행하였다. 핀-튜브 증발기의 열 수가 감소할수록 냉동시스템의 최적 냉매 충전량은 감소하였으며, 2단 13열과 2단 11열의 나선형 핀-튜브 증발기를 장착한 냉장고의 소비전력은 기존 2단 15열의 평판 핀-튜브 증발기를 적용한 냉장고 대비 각각 1.5%와 2.8% 감소하였다. 또한 내착상 실험결과 나선형 핀-튜브 증발기가 기존 평판 핀-튜브 증발기와 비교하여 같은 착상조건에서 3~7% 향상된 냉각능력을 보였다. 냉각속도 실험에서는 모든 증발기는 동등수준의 성능을 나타내었다.

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