From the literature review, it can be seen that the indoor
environment not only affects the performance of air curtains, but
also determines the energy consumption of the supermarket
When the entire discharged air from the DAG is drawn back into
HVAC system。 However, few studies have gave comprehensive
details on the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics coupling
, the infiltration air flow goes to zero, which
the supermarket HVAC system and the VORDC, and the influence of the HVAC system on the thermal performance of VORDC。 In fact, the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics include multiple length scales from the supermarket HVAC system to the products in the VORDC [26], as is show in Fig。 1。 Therefore, the work described in this paper intends to evaluate the influence of super- market HVAC system (such as air temperature, relative humidity and velocity, et al。) on the thermal performance and energy con-
sumption of VORDC based on a multi-scale approach。
represents the best insulating performance of air curtains。
Considering the influence of the PBP airflow, the NIR formula can be defined in Eq。 (2)
NIR ¼ ð1 — bÞNIR0 þ bNIR0NIRPBP ð2Þ
where, b is the mass flow ratio from PBP which can be obtained based on Eq。 (3) and NIRPBP is the NIR for PBP airflow given by Eq。 (4)
The previous work has proved the feasibility of the multi-scaleapproach which couples the supermarket HVAC system and the VORDC。 The fluid flow and heat transfer process for different scales
models are assumed as a 3D steady-state model。 The basic govern- ing equations are continuity, momentum and energy equations。
The turbulence is modeled by the standard j–e two-equation model。 Considering the mixing fluid of dry bulb air and water
vapor and the heat gain of products through radiation, a species transfer model and the discrete ordinates model are used, respec- tively。 The SIMPLE algorithm is employed to deal with the pres- sure–velocity coupling。 The convection term is discretized using the second order upwind scheme。
2。Parameter definitions
Due to the fluctuation in the air curtains, the ambient warm air is entrained throughout the entire height of the display cabinet opening and mixed with the air curtains。 A portion of the mixed ambient air will enter the return air grille, which is defined as infil- tration。 The rest spills into ambient at the bottom of the opening。 Generally, the non-dimensional form of the infiltration rate with- out perforated back papal (PBP) airflow, NIR0, is defined as Eq。 (1) [27]。
The ambient measurement point of a VORDC is midway along
the cabinet length in accordance with the EN 441-4。 The point loca- tion is shown in Fig。 2。
The cooling load of refrigerated display cabinets mainly consists of the heat transfer between the fabric of the cabinet and the ambi- ent air, radiation between the products and surrounding surfaces, heat gains from fan motor and lights and infiltration of ambient air across the air curtains [28]。 The total cooling loads can be calcu- lated simply by Eq。 (5)。 It can be pided into sensible Eq。 (6) and latent Eq。 (7) components [2,29]。 Thus, the electricity consumption can be obtained by cooling load pided by the coefficient of per- formance (COP) of refrigeration system。 Commonly, the COP of a middle typical temperature VORDC is 2 [30]。 超市空调系统英文文献和中文翻译(2):http://www.youerw.com/fanyi/lunwen_99302.html