Water Cooled Condenser Types

Water cooled condensers involve a heat rejection loop where condenser heat is dissipated to the environment via water.

Water cooled condenser types.

These types of condensers eject heat to the outdoors and are simple to install. Water is used to cool the hot air refrigerant 180 f or 82 c from the compressor by pumping counter flow water in the condenser. The space the fins gets choked with dirt. Water cooled air conditioner is also called water cooled condenser as its function is to reject the heat that was absorbed by the refrigerant in the evaporator.

Working of steam condenser. Forced convection air cooled condenser in this type of air cooled condenser a fan or blower is employed to move air over the condenser coil at a certain velocity the condenser coil is of the finned type and fines are closely spaced ranging between 5 7 fins cm. Boiler mountings and accessories. This type itself has three different kinds.

The condensed liquid refrigerant then leaves the condenser at bottom. However since condenser has to be kept outside this type of condenser requires a longer length of refrigerant tubing which calls for larger refrigerant inventory and higher pressure drops. The neck of the retort is a classical example of a straight tube condenser. The steam condenser receives exhaust steam from one end and gets in contact with the cooling water flowed within it form the cooling tower.

Double tube condensers have a tube of water inside a large. In this arrangement the refrigerant tube also exposed to the air and some quantity of heat will be rejected to ambient air. Plate type heat exchangers a special kind of surface exchanger are also possible but appear to be more common in liquid to liquid heat transfer applications. As it can be guessed this type of condensers use water as fluid to remove heat from refrigerant.

It is obvious that water cooled condensers are used where we have an adequate supply of water. Other types of condensers. There are three other condensers used in hvac systems. Three main types of water cooled condensers are pipe in a pipe shell and coil and plate.

The most common type of water cooled condensers in geothermal power plants are direct contact and surface types. Air cooled if the condenser is located on the outside of the unit the air cooled condenser can provide the easiest arrangement. The simplest type of condenser is a straight tube cooled only by the surrounding air the tube is held in a vertical or oblique position and the vapor is fed through the upper end. The heat of condensation is carried away by convection.

Types of air cooled condenser the warm refrigerant flows over water tubes and reject the heat to water and gets cooled. The water consumption is typically very low about 5 percent of an equivalent water cooled condenser with a cooling tower.