Zhileng xuebao (Jan 2013)
Feasibility Study of the Ø5 Tube-and-fin Heat Exchanger in Automotive Heat Pump System
Abstract
The parallel flow microchannel (PFM) heat exchanger is widely used in automotive air conditioning system, but it has the disadvantage of easy-frost and difficult in water-drain in defrost . The traditional tube and fin heat exchanger can overcome the frost and defrost problem but has low efficiency. In this paper a ?5 tube and fin heat exchanger is developed for the automotive heat pump. Performances of small diameter tube-and-fin heat exchanger and PFM heat exchanger are compared based on benchmark test. Results show that the system with small diameter tube-and-fin heat exchanger has 17.4%~23.7% higher COP in air conditioning mode, 12.6%~35.8% higher COP and 15~28℃ lower compressor discharge temperature in heat pump mode, which indicates that small diameter tube-and-fin heat exchanger is a promising solution to the automotive heat pump system of electric vehicle.
