Heat transfer coefficients during condensation of zeotropic refrigerant mixtures were obtained at mass fractions of 90 percent/10 percent, 80 percent/20 percent, 70 percent/30 percent, 60 percent/40 percent, and 50 percent/50 percent for HCFC-22/HCFC-142b and for pure HCFC-22 in a horizontal smooth tube at a high saturation pressure of 2.43 MPa. The measurements were taken in a series of eight 8.11 mm inner diameter smooth tubes with lengths of 1 603 mm. At low mass fluxes, from 40 kg/m2s to 350 kg/m2s where the flow regime is predominately stratified wavy, the refrigerant mass fraction influenced the heat transfer coefficient by up to a factor of two, decreasing as the mass fraction of HCFC-142b is increased. At high mass fluxes of 350 kg/m2s and more, the flow regime was predominately annular and the heat transfer coefficients were not strongly influenced by the refrigerant mass fraction, decreasing only by 7 percent as the refrigerant mass fraction changed from 100 percent HCFC-22 to 50 percent/50 percent HCFC-22/HCFC-142b. The results also indicated that of three methods tested to predict heat transfer coefficients, the flow pattern correlation of Dobson and Chato (1998) gave the best results for pure HCFC-22 and for the mixtures utilizing the Silver-Bell-Ghaly method (1964).
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