Experimental Performance of Moderate and High Temperature Heat Pump Charged with Refrigerant Mixture BY-3

Theoretical and experimental analysis of a new refrigerant mixture BY-3 was conducted based on a single-stage vapor compression refrigeration system. The water-water heat pump system used BY-3 to produce hot water when the low temperature was 20 ℃. The following results were obtained: the highest temperature at the condenser outlet reached about 85 ℃; when the difference between the water temperatures at the condenser outlet and the evaporator inlet was less than 40 ℃, the coefficient of performance (COP) was larger than 4; when the difference reached 55 ℃, the COP still kept 3; the discharge temperature of BY-3 was lower than 100 ℃, and the refrigerant vapor pressure kept lower than 1.8 MPa. When the water temperature at the condenser outlet reached over 85 ℃, nearly a 5 ℃ superheating temperature was maintained.

Some studies on transient behaviours of sheath formation in dusty plasma with the effect of adiabatically heated electrons and ions

Based on quasipotential analysis, a plasma sheath is studied through the derivation of the Sagdeev potential equation in dusty plasma coexisting with adiabatically heated electrons and ions. Salient features as to the existence of sheaths are shown by solving the Sagdeev potential equation through the Runge–Kutta method, with appropriate consideration of adiabatically heated electrons and ions in the dynamical system. It has been shown that adiabatic heating of plasma sets a limit to the critical dust speed depending on the densities and Mach number, and it is believed that its role is very important to the sheath. One present problem is the contraction of the sheath region whereby dust grains levitated into the sheath lead to a crystallization similar to the formation of nebulons and are compressed to a larger chunk of the dust cloud by shrinking of the sheath. Our overall observations advance knowledge of sheath formation and are expected to be of interest in astroplasmas.

Flow Characteristics of a Refrigerant-Oil Mixture in a Vapor Compression Heat Pump Heat Exchanger for Space Applications

The vapor compression heat pump is considered as the best option for aerospace thermal control system.The heat exchanger in vapor compression heat pump is a component that is greatly influenced by the cosmic environment.Lubricating oil enters heat pump system with a refrigerant under microgravity,and the entrance of the lubricant increases the complexity of the flow.In this work,FLUENT software was used to study the flow and lubricant deposition of a two-phase mixture of lubricant POE RL 68H and refrigerant R134a in a heat exchanger without the consideration of phase-change heat transfer.The functional relationships between the oil film thickness and the proportion of lubricating oil,the gravitational acceleration,the inlet flow velocity,and the placement directions of the two phases of oil in the heat exchanger were established.The results demonstrate that with the increase of the gravitational acceleration and the lubricating oil content,the thickness of the oil film will exhibit an S-type change in line with the Boltzmann function,and the amount of lubricating oil deposition will increase.With the increase of the flow velocity,the thickness of the oil film will exhibit an exponential decline.