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Types of Evaporators 1. Flooded Type Evaporator

There are four main types of evaporators: 1. Flooded evaporators have a tank above the coil to flood the inside with refrigerant. 2. Dry evaporators only admit enough liquid refrigerant to fully vaporize by the outlet to leave in a dry state. 3. Bare tube evaporators use copper or steel tubing in common shapes like zigzag or oval coils. Finned evaporators add fins to increase surface area and heat transfer. 4. Plate evaporators embed copper or aluminum coils in rigid plates for safety and easier cleaning. Shell and tube evaporators are used in large chillers, classified by whether refrigerant or fluid flows through the tubes or shell.

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Types of Evaporators 1. Flooded Type Evaporator

There are four main types of evaporators: 1. Flooded evaporators have a tank above the coil to flood the inside with refrigerant. 2. Dry evaporators only admit enough liquid refrigerant to fully vaporize by the outlet to leave in a dry state. 3. Bare tube evaporators use copper or steel tubing in common shapes like zigzag or oval coils. Finned evaporators add fins to increase surface area and heat transfer. 4. Plate evaporators embed copper or aluminum coils in rigid plates for safety and easier cleaning. Shell and tube evaporators are used in large chillers, classified by whether refrigerant or fluid flows through the tubes or shell.

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TYPES OF EVAPORATORS

1. Flooded Type Evaporator


It is arranged with a tank or a surge drum called accumulator located above the coil so
that the inside of the evaporator is full, or flooded with refrigerant.
2. Dry Type evaporator
It is not actually “dry” but has a refrigerant control device that admits only enough liquid
refrigerant to be completely vaporized by the time it reaches the outlet of the coil. All
refrigerants leave the coil in a dry state, or dry vapor.
CLASSIFICATION OF EVAPORATORS
1. Bare Tube Type Evaporators
The bare tube evaporators are made up of
copper tubing or steel pipes. The copper tubing
is used for small evaporators where the
refrigerant other than ammonia is used, while
the steel pipes are used with the large
evaporators where ammonia is used as the
refrigerant. The bare tube evaporator comprises
of several turns of the tubing, though most
commonly flat zigzag and oval trombone are the
most common shapes. The bare tube
evaporators are usually used for liquid chilling.
In the blast cooling and the freezing operations
the atmospheric air flows over the bare tube evaporator and the chilled air leaving it
used for the cooling purposes. The bare tube evaporators are used in very few
applications, however the bare tube evaporators fitted with the fins, called as finned
evaporators are used very commonly.
2. Plate Type Evaporators
In the plate type of evaporator the coil usually
made up of copper or aluminum is embedded
in the plate so as so to form a flat looking
surface. Externally the plate type of
evaporator looks like a single plate, but inside
it there are several turns of the metal tubing
through which the refrigerant flows. The
advantage of the plate type of evaporators is
that they are more rigid as the external plate
provides lots of safety. The external plate also helps increasing the heat transfer from
the metal tubing to the substance to be chilled. Further, the plate type of evaporators is
easy to clean and can be manufactured cheaply.
3. Finned Evaporators
The finned evaporators are the bare tube type
of evaporators covered with the fins. When the
fluid (air or water) to be chilled flows over the
bare tube evaporator lots of cooling effect from
the refrigerant goes wasted since there is less
surface for the transfer of heat from the fluid to
the refrigerant. The fluid tends to move
between the open spaces of the tubing and does not come in contact with the surface of
the coil, thus the bare tube evaporators are less effective. The fins on the external
surface of the bare tube evaporators increases the contact surface of the of the metallic
tubing with the fluid and increase the heat transfer rate, thus the finned evaporators are
more effective than the bare tube evaporators.
4. Shell and Tube Type Evaporators
The shell and tube types of evaporators are used in the large refrigeration and central
air conditioning systems. The evaporators in these systems are commonly known as the
chillers. The chillers comprise of large number of the tubes that are inserted inside the
drum or the shell. Depending on the direction of the flow of the refrigerant in the shell
and tube type of chillers, they are classified into two types: dry expansion type and
flooded type of chillers. In dry expansion chillers the refrigerant flows along the tube
side and the fluid to be chilled flows along the shell side. The flow of the refrigerant to
these chillers is controlled by the expansion valve. In case of the flooded type of
evaporators the refrigerant flows along the shell side and fluid to be chilled flows along
the tube. In these chillers the level of the refrigerant is kept constant by the float valve
that acts as the expansion valve also.

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