Development of a High Performance and Compact Absorber for Absorption Refrigerator:Investigation of an Optimum Feature of Absorber by using a tube pitch variable Absorber

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Absorption experiments were conducted to investigate an effect of tube pitch for a conventional horizontal smooth copper tubes type absorber. A test absorber that consists of 9 horizontal smooth tubes was built. Each tube had an outside diameter of 15.9mm and a length of 0.2m. Also, the absorber can be changed its tube pitch from 16.0mm to 31.7mm. N-octanol was used as a surfactant. Temperature distributions of a falling film of aqueous lithium bromide, cooling water and heat transfer tubes' surfaces were measured minutely. And, the behaviors of the solution flow both on the horizontal tubes and in the space among them were observed by using a high speed video camera. With measured data, refrigerating capacity, overall heat transfer coefficient, temperature effectiveness and absorption effectiveness were determined. The results showed the refrigerating capacity increased with decreasing the tube pitch. And, real overall heat transfer coefficients of the tube bundle were determined by using the local temperature distributions at the tube bundle. They became 50% larger than that of conventional calculation method. Consequently, it was conc1uded that the full contact arrangement of the smooth tubes is the best feature of the conventional horizontal tube type absorber.
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