Thermal conductivity measurements of refrigerant mixtures containing hydrofluorocarbons (HFC-32, HFC-125, HFC-134a), hydrofluoroolefins (HFO-1234yf), and carbon dioxide (CO2)

Thermal conductivity measurements of eight binary refrigerant mixtures were conducted in the homogeneous liquid and vapour phases with the transient hot-wire technique. The temperature range of the measurements spanned from (224.3 to 386.6) K with pressures ranging between (1.0 and 6.5) MPa. The bin...

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Main Authors: Kim, Dongchan, Yang, Xiaoxian, Arami-Niya, Arash, Rowland, Darren, Xiao, Xiong, Al Ghafri, Saif ZS, Tsuji, Tomoya, Tanaka, Yukio, Seiki, Yoshio, May, Eric F
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Published: Elsevier 2020
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/IC150100019
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80525
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author Kim, Dongchan
Yang, Xiaoxian
Arami-Niya, Arash
Rowland, Darren
Xiao, Xiong
Al Ghafri, Saif ZS
Tsuji, Tomoya
Tanaka, Yukio
Seiki, Yoshio
May, Eric F
author_facet Kim, Dongchan
Yang, Xiaoxian
Arami-Niya, Arash
Rowland, Darren
Xiao, Xiong
Al Ghafri, Saif ZS
Tsuji, Tomoya
Tanaka, Yukio
Seiki, Yoshio
May, Eric F
author_sort Kim, Dongchan
building Curtin Institutional Repository
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description Thermal conductivity measurements of eight binary refrigerant mixtures were conducted in the homogeneous liquid and vapour phases with the transient hot-wire technique. The temperature range of the measurements spanned from (224.3 to 386.6) K with pressures ranging between (1.0 and 6.5) MPa. The binary mixtures were equimolar (R125 + R32), (R32 + R134a), (R32 + CO2), (R125 + R134a), (R125 + CO2), (R134a + R1234yf), (R134a + CO2) and (R1234yf + CO2). Additionally, two multi-component mixtures, (R32 + R1234yf + CO2) and (R32 + R1234yf + R134a + R125 + CO2), were investigated. The transient hot-wire apparatus was validated with measurements of pure CO2 in the liquid and vapour regions. The relative combined expanded uncertainty (k = 2) in the experimental thermal conductivity was on the order of 2.0%. The relative deviations of the measured thermal conductivities in the vapour phase from those calculated using the extended corresponding states (ECS) model with default binary interaction parameters (BIPs), as implemented in the software REFPROP 10, were between (−12 and +8) %, while those in the liquid phase were between (−15 and +4) %. The new experimental data were used to tune the BIPs in the ECS model. Significant improvements were observed especially in the liquid phase of the five-component mixture, with the root-mean-square of the relative difference between the experimental data and the model estimation reduced by a factor of nearly three.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-805252022-08-12T05:16:30Z Thermal conductivity measurements of refrigerant mixtures containing hydrofluorocarbons (HFC-32, HFC-125, HFC-134a), hydrofluoroolefins (HFO-1234yf), and carbon dioxide (CO2) Kim, Dongchan Yang, Xiaoxian Arami-Niya, Arash Rowland, Darren Xiao, Xiong Al Ghafri, Saif ZS Tsuji, Tomoya Tanaka, Yukio Seiki, Yoshio May, Eric F Thermal conductivity measurements of eight binary refrigerant mixtures were conducted in the homogeneous liquid and vapour phases with the transient hot-wire technique. The temperature range of the measurements spanned from (224.3 to 386.6) K with pressures ranging between (1.0 and 6.5) MPa. The binary mixtures were equimolar (R125 + R32), (R32 + R134a), (R32 + CO2), (R125 + R134a), (R125 + CO2), (R134a + R1234yf), (R134a + CO2) and (R1234yf + CO2). Additionally, two multi-component mixtures, (R32 + R1234yf + CO2) and (R32 + R1234yf + R134a + R125 + CO2), were investigated. The transient hot-wire apparatus was validated with measurements of pure CO2 in the liquid and vapour regions. The relative combined expanded uncertainty (k = 2) in the experimental thermal conductivity was on the order of 2.0%. The relative deviations of the measured thermal conductivities in the vapour phase from those calculated using the extended corresponding states (ECS) model with default binary interaction parameters (BIPs), as implemented in the software REFPROP 10, were between (−12 and +8) %, while those in the liquid phase were between (−15 and +4) %. The new experimental data were used to tune the BIPs in the ECS model. Significant improvements were observed especially in the liquid phase of the five-component mixture, with the root-mean-square of the relative difference between the experimental data and the model estimation reduced by a factor of nearly three. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80525 10.1016/j.jct.2020.106248 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/IC150100019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Elsevier fulltext
spellingShingle Kim, Dongchan
Yang, Xiaoxian
Arami-Niya, Arash
Rowland, Darren
Xiao, Xiong
Al Ghafri, Saif ZS
Tsuji, Tomoya
Tanaka, Yukio
Seiki, Yoshio
May, Eric F
Thermal conductivity measurements of refrigerant mixtures containing hydrofluorocarbons (HFC-32, HFC-125, HFC-134a), hydrofluoroolefins (HFO-1234yf), and carbon dioxide (CO2)
title Thermal conductivity measurements of refrigerant mixtures containing hydrofluorocarbons (HFC-32, HFC-125, HFC-134a), hydrofluoroolefins (HFO-1234yf), and carbon dioxide (CO2)
title_full Thermal conductivity measurements of refrigerant mixtures containing hydrofluorocarbons (HFC-32, HFC-125, HFC-134a), hydrofluoroolefins (HFO-1234yf), and carbon dioxide (CO2)
title_fullStr Thermal conductivity measurements of refrigerant mixtures containing hydrofluorocarbons (HFC-32, HFC-125, HFC-134a), hydrofluoroolefins (HFO-1234yf), and carbon dioxide (CO2)
title_full_unstemmed Thermal conductivity measurements of refrigerant mixtures containing hydrofluorocarbons (HFC-32, HFC-125, HFC-134a), hydrofluoroolefins (HFO-1234yf), and carbon dioxide (CO2)
title_short Thermal conductivity measurements of refrigerant mixtures containing hydrofluorocarbons (HFC-32, HFC-125, HFC-134a), hydrofluoroolefins (HFO-1234yf), and carbon dioxide (CO2)
title_sort thermal conductivity measurements of refrigerant mixtures containing hydrofluorocarbons (hfc-32, hfc-125, hfc-134a), hydrofluoroolefins (hfo-1234yf), and carbon dioxide (co2)
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/IC150100019
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80525