Predictionoftwo-phasepressuregradientsofrefrigerantsinhorizontaltubes教程.pdf

International Journal of Refrigeration 25 (2002) 935–947 /locate/ijrefrig Prediction of two-phase pressure gradients of refrigerants in horizontal tubes M.B. Ould Didi, N. Kattan, J.R. Thome* Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer (LTCM), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Received 19 March 2001; received in revised form 17 September 2001; accepted 26 October 2001 Abstract Two-phase pressure drop data were obtained for evaporation in two horizontal test sections of 10.92 and 12.00 mm diameter for five refrigerants (R-134a, R-123, R-402A, R-404A and R-502) over mass velocities from 100 to 500 kg/m2 s and vapor qualities from 0.04 to 1.0. These data have then been compared against seven two-phase frictional pressure drop prediction methods. Overall, the method by Muller-Steinhagen and Heck (Muller-Steinhagen H, Heck K. A¨ ¨ simple friction pressure drop correlation for two-phase flow in pipes. Chem. Eng. Process 1986;20:297–308) and that by Gronnerud (Gronnerud R. Investigation of liquid hold-up, flow-resistance and heat transfer in circulation type eva-¨ ¨ porators, part IV: two-phase flow resistance in boiling refrigerants. Annexe 1972-1, Bull. de l’Inst. du Froid, 1979) were found to provide the most accurate predictions while the widely quoted method of Friedel (Friedel L. Improved friction drop correlations for horizontal and vertical two-phase pipe flow. European Two-phase Flow Group Meeting, paper E2; June 1979; Ispra, Italy) gave the third best results. The data were also classified by two-phase flow pattern using the Kattan-Thome-Favrat (