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What tradeoffs are involved in reducing tube diameter?

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What tradeoffs are involved in reducing tube diameter?

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The refrigerant “pressure drop” increases for smaller diameter tubes. More work is required to circulate the refrigerant through a given length of tube when the pressure drop is high. To offset the pressure drop, coils can be designed with shorter tube lengths and the tube circuitry can be configured with fewer tubes per branch and more branches per coil.