Abstract
Experiments were performed on boiling heat transfer of a refrigerant R-410A flowing vertically downward in a copper rectangular tube and a triangular tube of 1.04 mm and 0.88 mm inside hydraulic diameter, respectively,for the development of a high-performance heat exchanger using small tubes or multi-port extruded tubes for air conditioning systems. Local heat transfer coefficients were measured in a range of mass fluxes from 30 to 200kg/(m2s), heat fluxes from 1 to 20 kW/m2 and quality from 0.05 to 1 at the evaporation temperature of 10 °C.Characteristics of the heat transfer coefficient and dryout quality were clarified by comparing the measurements with the data for the circular tube of 1.0 mm inside diameter previously obtained.
