CFD AND THERMAL ANAYSIS ON AC CONDENSOR

Abstract

In systems involving heat transfer, a condenser is a device or unit used to condense a substance from its gaseous to its liquid state, by cooling it. In so doing, the latent heat is given up by the substance, and will transfer to the condenser coolant. Condensers are typically heat exchangers which have various designs and come in many sizes ranging from rather small (hand-held) to very large industrial-scale units used in plant processes. For example, a refrigerator uses a condenser to get rid of heat extracted from the interior of the unit to the outside air. Condensers are used in air conditioning, industrial chemical processes such as distillation, steam power plants and other heat-exchange systems. Use of cooling water or surrounding air as the coolant is common in many condensers. In general all solid and non solid model will deform when certain amount of thermal or structural loads applied within the environmental condition. In order to find the changes of the product or component, a analysis software is used. Ansys is an analytic software to find changes in deformation, Product life, Failures, heat flux(change of heat flow with respect to time and distance) and CFD (flow of air or water or any gas or liquid in the body). In this project the model is Designed with respect to all the available constraints using an advanced cad softwares like Creo parametric, solid works, catia and solid edge. Later the product file is converted to ".stp" file format (standard exchange of product file) and imported to ansys workbench to find deformation and analytic valve with respect to the model or product definitions. In this project the product was undergone various types of analysis to find frequencies with respect to gravity or mass by using Modal analysis and by Using static structural analysis total deformation, stress and strain valve, product life