an Experimental Evaluation on Air Conditioning Performance with Vairtex Air Director Applied on Residential Condenser Unit

EasyChair Preprint 26

Abstract

Thermodynamic performance measurements of a 1.5 ton residential air conditioning system and fluid flow hot-wire velocity measurements at the outlet of the condenser were performed with and without an add-on device (VairTEX Air Director added on top of the condenser unit). The Air Director modified all three velocity components at the condenser exit. Data from hot-wire confirmed the Air Director reduced the radial component while enhancing swirling factor and adding 48.7% volumetric flow rate across the condenser unit. By streamlining the flow, the Air Director led to an improvement of 5% in terms of overall coefficient of performance of the air conditioning unit and 4.5% reduction in compressor power consumption.

Keyphrases: Air conditioning, VairTEX, air director, coefficient of performance, compressor power, condenser, hot wire, power consumption

@booklet{EasyChair:26,
  author    = {Vien Nguyen and Edgar Matida and Gerard Godbout},
  title     = {an Experimental Evaluation on Air Conditioning Performance with Vairtex Air Director Applied on Residential Condenser Unit},
  doi       = {10.29007/q5bh},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 26},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2018}}