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Ammonia - water desorption in flooded columns

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dc.contributor.advisor Garimella, Srinivas
dc.contributor.author Golden, James Hollis en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Ghiaasiaan, S. Mostafa
dc.contributor.committeeMember Jeter, Sheldon
dc.contributor.department Mechanical Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2012-09-20T18:23:26Z
dc.date.available 2012-09-20T18:23:26Z
dc.date.issued 2012-07-10 en_US
dc.description.abstract Refrigeration systems employing the NH3-H2O absorption cycle provide cooling using a thermal energy input. This cycle relies on the zeotropic nature of the refrigerant - absorbent pair: because of the difference in boiling temperatures between NH3 and H2O, they can be separated through selective boiling in the desorber. Desorbers with counter-current flow of the solution and generated vapor enable efficient heat and mass transfer between the two phases, reducing the absorbent content in the generated vapor. Flow visualization experiments at temperatures, concentrations and pressures representative of operating conditions are necessary to understand the heat and mass transfer processes and flow regime characteristics within the component. In this study, a Flooded Column desorber, which accomplishes desorption of the refrigerant vapor through a combination of falling-film and pool boiling, was fabricated and tested. Refrigerant-rich solution enters the top of the component and fills a column, which is heated by an adjacent heated microchannel array. The vapor generated within the component is removed from the top of the component, while the dilute solution drains from the bottom. Flow visualization experiments showed that the Flooded Column desorber operated most stably in a partially flooded condition, with a pool-boiling region below a falling-film region. It was found that the liquid column level was dependent on operating conditions, and that the pool-boiling region exhibits aggressive mixing between the vapor and solution phases. Heat transfer coefficients were calculated from the data for the pool-boiling region, and were compared with the predictions of several mixture pool-boiling correlations from the literature. The correlations from the literature were in general unable to predict the data from this study adequately. It was found that the Flooded Column desorber yielded higher heat transfer coefficients within the pool-boiling region than those predicted by these correlations. Therefore, modifications to existing mixture boiling correlations are suggested based on the findings of this study. The resulting modified correlation predicts 33 of the 35 data points from this study within ±40%, with an average absolute error of 19%. en_US
dc.description.degree MS en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44884
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Absorption en_US
dc.subject Refrigeration en_US
dc.subject Waste heat recovery en_US
dc.subject Pool boiling en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery
dc.subject.lcsh Thermal desorption
dc.subject.lcsh Ammonia
dc.subject.lcsh Water
dc.subject.lcsh Flow visualization
dc.title Ammonia - water desorption in flooded columns en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Thesis
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.advisor Garimella, Srinivas
local.contributor.corporatename George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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