Simulação do condensador de uma bomba de calor para aquecimento de água.

Abstract

A computer routine was developed to simulate a counterflow concentric tube heat exchanger to operate as the condenser in an air/water heat pump. A tube by tube approach was adopted in the modeling to obtain detailed information on the behavior of the fluids (refrigerant and water) along the condenser. It was then incorporated to an air/air heat pump simulation program, which demonstrated to be able to predict all the operating conditions for each tube of the condenser and to verify the effect of changing the heat exchanger parameters on the performance of the thermodynamic cycle of the system.