Investigating performance of microchannel evaporators with different manifold structures

International Journal of Refrigeration

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 292-302

  Shi, Junye ^a   Qu, Xiaohua ^a   Qi, Zhaogang ^a   Chen, Jiangping ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Flow distribution; Microchannel evaporator

Indexed keywords

AC CONDITIONS; COOLING CAPACITY; DESIGN TRADEOFF; EXPERIMENTATION; FLOW DISTRIBUTION; TEST BENCHES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; MICROCHANNELS;

EVAPORATORS;

EID: 78649723143     PISSN: 01407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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