Question

Air is to be cooled in the evaporator section of a refrigerator by passing it over a bank of 0.8-cm-outer-diameter and 0.8-m-long tubes inside which the refrigerant is evaporating at −20°C. Air approaches the tube bank in the normal direction at 0°C and 1 atm with a mean velocity of 9 m/s. The tubes are arranged in-line with longitudinal and transverse pitches of S_L  =  S_T  = 1.5 cm. There are 25 rows in the flow direction with 15 tubes in each row. Assume the mean temperature as −5°C and the properties of air at this temperature and 1 atm are (Table A-15) k = 0.02326 W/m⋅K, c_p = 1.006 kJ/kg⋅K, ρ = 1.317 kg/m³, Pr = 0.7375, μ = 1.705 × 10⁻⁵ kg/m⋅s, and Pr_s = Pr_{@Ts = –20°C} = 0.7408. Also, the density of air at the inlet temperature of 0°C (for use in the mass flow rate calculation at the inlet) is ρ_i = 1.292 kg/m³.

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Determine the refrigeration capacity of this system.

The refrigeration capacity of the system is  W.

Determine the pressure drop across the tube bank. (Round off  SLD/SLD  value to the nearest whole number.)

The pressure drop across the tube bank is  Pa.

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