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US 5,054,548 AGranted
High performance heat transfer surface for high pressure refrigerants
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorSteven R. Zohler
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AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorSteven R. Zohler
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A heat transfer surface for effecting boiling of a high pressure refrigerant in contact with the surface. The surface includes a plurality of spaced apart fins which extend from the side in contact with the boiling fluid. Each of the fins has a base portion joined to the base of the surface and a tip portion. The tip portions are bent over towards the next adjacent one of the fins to define a subsurface channel between adjacent fins. The sub-surface channel has alternating closed sections where a length of the tip portion is bent over by an additional amount so that the length of the tip portion contacts an adjacent fin, and, open sections wherein the bent over tip portion is spaced from the adjacent fin. Each of the open sections has a cross sectional area of from 0.000220 square inches to 0.000440 square inches such that the open sections define alternating re-entrant openings of a size to promote optimum boiling of a high pressure refrigerant. The total open area of the open sections is from 14% to 28% of the total surface area.
A heat exchanger comprising;
In a refrigeration system comprising a compressor, a condenser, a pressure reducing means, and an evaporator of the shell-and-tube type interconnected in refrigerant flow relationship, an improved heat transfer surface for said evaporator comprising:
A heat exchanger comprising a tube for conducting a relatively warm fluid to be cooled by transferring heat to a boiling fluid surrounding said tube, helical heat transfer fins formed from the outer surface of and substantially coaxially disposed with respect to said tube, said helical fins having base portions integral with the outer surface of said tube, said fins extending outwardly from their base portions to distal portions, the distal portions being bent over towards the next adjacent one of said fins to define a sub-surface channel between adjacent fins, said sub-surface channel having alternating closed sections where a length of said tip portion is bent over an additional amount so that said length of said tip portion contacts an adjacent fin, and, open sections wherein said bent over portion is spaced from said adjacent fin, each of said open section having a cross sectional area of from 0.000220 square inches to 0.000440 square inches, and the total open area of said open sections is from 14% to 28% of the total outside surface area of said tube.
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