The invention discloses an
evaporator and a centrifugal water chilling unit comprising the
evaporator. The
evaporator comprises a vertically-arranged evaporator shell, a support fixedly installed on the outer side of the shell and a heat exchange pipeline arranged in the shell. The heat exchange pipeline comprises a water inlet main
pipe installed at the top end of the evaporator shell, a water outlet main
pipe installed at the bottom end of the evaporator shell and a plurality of heat exchange
branch pipes arranged between the water inlet main
pipe and the water outlet main pipe in an
annular array mode, and the top ends of the heat exchange
branch pipes gather inwards to form a conical array with the wide lower portion and the narrow upper portion. The inner wall of the evaporator shell is correspondingly arranged to be of a conical structure with the wide lower portion and the narrow upper portion, and the conical structure and the evaporator shell jointly form a gradually-shrunk flow channel guiding
refrigerant gas to flow evenly. The invention belongs to the technical field of heat exchange equipment, and achieves the technical effects that heat exchange
branch pipes are arranged into a conical array with a wide lower part and a narrow upper part, and the inner wall of an evaporator shell is arranged into a conical structure, so that a tapered flow channel is constructed; when the gas rises, the flow channel sectional area is gradually reduced, and the flow speed is correspondingly increased.