In response to the call for environment protection, more and more researches have been finding new alternative refrigerants which are of zero Ozone depleting potential (ODP), low global warming potential (GWP) and will be efficient, inflammable, and nontoxic to replace the HCFCs and HFCs refrigerants. Non-azeotropic mixtures of suitable fluids are becoming the important candidates of that search race. In this paper, the flow and heat transfer performance of CO2-DME (dimethyl ether) mixture refrigerants at 8.0 MPa in a horizontal tube was numerically investigated. In particular, this work has been focused upon the laminar heat transfer characteristics of CO2-DME mixture refrigerant flow with Reynolds number ranging from 180 to 1800 and the mass fraction of DME ranging from 21% to 39%. The results show that the heat transfer performance of the mixture fluid can be improved when the mass fraction of DME increases to 30%. Considering both the best heat transfer performance and the safety, the optimum component of CO2-DME (70/30, mass%) has been found in this study. And the mechanisms that are responsible for the heat transfer enhancement are obtained and they are: (1) The temperature gradient of CO2-DME mixture fluid with high mass fraction of DME is larger than that of CO2-DME mixture fluid with low mass fraction of DME; in addition, the temperature gradient increases with the mass fraction of DME; (2) The increase of thermal conductivity for CO2-DME mixtures can enhance the heat transfer performance to a large extent. (3) The self-acceleration characteristic of the supercritical mixture fluid is also beneficial to the heat transfer enhancement. Furthermore, it is found that the heat transfer performance of the mixture fluid can also be improved with Reynolds number. The viscous boundary layer of the fluid becomes thinner when the Reynolds number increases, which leads to an enhancement in heat transfer. In addition, at high Reynolds number, the flow is tend to be turbulent, which is beneficial to the heat transfer performance of mixture fluid. With regard to the flow characteristic of mixtures, first the flowing changes depend on the temperature and the density of fluid to a large extent-the high value of velocity can occur when the fluid has a high temperature and a low density. And secondly, the supercritical CO2-DME mixtures speed up along the tube and make themselves different with water flow. These results of this study have significant implications for the design of high-performance heat exchangers, using CO2-DME mixture as the working fluid.
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ASME 2009 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the InterPACK09 and 3rd Energy Sustainability Conferences
July 19–23, 2009
San Francisco, California, USA
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- Heat Transfer Division
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Xin-Rong Zhang,
Xin-Rong Zhang
Peking University, Beijing, China
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Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
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Xin-Rong Zhang
Peking University, Beijing, China
Jia Liu
Peking University, Beijing, China
Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
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HT2009-88143, pp. 147-154; 8 pages
Published Online:
March 12, 2010
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Zhang, X, Liu, J, & Yamaguchi, H. "A Numerical Study on Heat Transfer Characteristics of CO2-DME Mixture Fluid." Proceedings of the ASME 2009 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the InterPACK09 and 3rd Energy Sustainability Conferences. Volume 1: Heat Transfer in Energy Systems; Thermophysical Properties; Heat Transfer Equipment; Heat Transfer in Electronic Equipment. San Francisco, California, USA. July 19–23, 2009. pp. 147-154. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2009-88143
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