Parametric Evaluation of Cooling Pipe in Direct Evaporation Artificial Ice Rink

Zhenying Zhang (), Shiqi Wang, Meiyuan Yang, Kai Gong and Yanhua Chen
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Zhenying Zhang: College of Civil and Architectural Engineering, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China
Shiqi Wang: College of Civil and Architectural Engineering, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China
Meiyuan Yang: College of Civil and Architectural Engineering, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China
Kai Gong: Tangshan Key Laboratory of Low-Carbon Built Environment, Tangshan 063210, China
Yanhua Chen: College of Civil and Architectural Engineering, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 21, 1-16

Abstract: With the coming of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, China’s artificial ice rink construction will be in rapid development. A parametric evaluation of the cooling pipe in a direct evaporation rink was performed by numerical simulation. The results showed that the influence of the temperature of the antifreeze pipe on the ice surface temperature can be ignored. The evaporation temperature of the working medium in the cooling pipe is between −32 °C and −22.4 °C to ensure the ice surface temperature is between −5 °C and −3 °C. With the increase in the cooling pipe spacing, the required evaporation temperature of the working medium in the cooling pipe and the uniformity of the ice surface temperature decreased. The required evaporation temperature of the working medium in the cooling pipe decreases by 1.2–1.5 °C for every 10 mm increment of spacing. With the increase in the cooling pipe diameter, the required evaporation temperature of the working medium in the cooling pipe and the uniformity of the ice surface temperature increase. The required evaporation temperature of the working medium in the cooling pipe increases by 2.2–2.9 °C for every 5 mm increment of diameter. The maximum temperature difference of ice surface temperature ranged from 0.004 °C to 0.111 °C.

Keywords: artificial ice rink; heat transfer; cooling pipe; numerical simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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