CORROSION OF ALUMINUMFIN, COPPERTUBE （腐蚀ALUMINUMFIN,铜管）.pdf

ESL-HH-02-05-30 CORROSION OF ALUMINUM-FIN, COPPER-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGE COILS JAY E. FIELD, PH.D. TRANE RESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS TYLER, TX ABSTRACT In most failures of indoor coils, however, the Over the past several years the HVAC industry copper tubes will have been penetrated while there has experienced a large increase in instances of leaks will be little corrosion on the aluminum fins in direct in the central portion of aluminum-finned, copper- contact. Figure 2 shows pits in the copper tube tube heat exchange coils. These leaks are surface and the contacting aluminum fin surfaces. In characterized as being very small in size and very these cases the corrosion appears to be caused by a high in numbers within a single coil. There are many direct attack of the corroding agent on the copper in chemical species that can cause these coil leaks, spite of the presence of the ‘more sacrificial’ including chlorides from pool chemicals and clothes aluminum. Hydrogen sulfide, carbon disulfide, and washing, sulfur from tap water, lubricants and nearby ammonia have been known for centuries to cause industries, and ammonia compounds from cleaners or copper corrosion without the presence of a nearby industries. However this recent increase in