Temperature, Velocity & Pressure Distribution Analysis of a Cooling System in a Cold Storage using CFD

Md. Faraz Khan; Priynaka Jhavar; Sachin Gajbhiye

Volume : IV, Issue : VIII, August - 2015

Temperature, Velocity & Pressure Distribution Analysis of a Cooling System in a Cold Storage using CFD

Md. Faraz Khan, Priynaka Jhavar, Sachin Gajbhiye

Abstract :

The research objective was to determine temperature, pressure and velocity distributions for one of the cooling system arrangement commonly used in cold stores. In this cooling system the evaporator coil is located at the top of one of the wall of cold storage. Computational fluid dynamics was used for modelling of distribution of temperature, pressure and velocity inside the cold storage. Storage temperature was assumed to be –20C. Boundary conditions were set as; Inlet–Surface of fluid inlet, Outlet–Surface of fluid outlet. A tetrahedral mesh was created by using ANSYS 14.5 and calculation finished when accessing a solution. Turbulence was modelled using the k– ? (k–epsilon). Spatial distribution in the cold storage for the cooling system was modelled and evaluated in this research. The results obtained from CFD explain more clearly the understanding of cooling