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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="technology" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1865</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Technology</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF FIN GEOMETRY ON HEAT TRANSFER RATE THROUGH THE REFRIGERATOR CONDENSER&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kumar</surname><given-names>G. Kiran</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>45</fpage><lpage>51</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>A refrigerator is a machine which attains and maintains the temperature of a space below that of surroundings by transferring heat from the space to be cooled to the surroundings with the help of a compressor. Majority of the refrigerators works on the vapor compression refrigeration system which consists of components like compressors, condensers, expansion valve and evaporator. The performance of the system depends on the performance of all the components of the system. A condenser is a heat exchanger where the refrigerant is first desuperheated and then the saturated vapor condenses into liquid state. This is an important part of the refrigeration cycle without which the refrigerant cannot be recycled. In general all the domestic refrigerators have naturally air cooled condensers. Heat transfer from suchcondensers can be increased by the extended surfaces called fins. The rate of heat transfer through&#13;
condenser depends on fin material, spacing between the fins, geometry of the fins and it__ampersandsignlsquo;s thermal conductivity. This experimental work focuses on the effect of condenser fin geometry on the performance of the condenser. Experiments are conducted with circular and rectangular cross sectional fins fabricated to the condenser of 165 lts capacity refrigerator. Heat transfer rate through the condenser is calculated for different fin geometries.&#13;
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