2|Page Basic HVAC Systems

VRF - Variable Refrigerant Flow

VRV - Variable Refrigerant Volume
What is refrigerator?
Refrigerator is a equipment used to producing and maintaining the
temperature in a closed space below the surrounding atmospheric
temperature.
What is refrigerant?
 Refrigerant is the working fluid in a refrigerator.
 It will absorb heat at a lower temperature and rejects the heat at a higher
temperature in the form of latent heat.

Properties of refrigerants
1. Low Boiling Point
2. Low Freezing Point
3. High Latent heat Evaporation
4. High Co-efficient of performance
5. Odourless and colourless
6. In-flammability
7. Non-Corrosiveness
Type of refrigerant gases
1. Freon gases
a) R12, R21, R22, R502 (Non Eco friendly gases)
b) R134a, R404a, R410a, R407a, R407C, R507a (Eco friendly gases)
2. Ammonia (NH3)
3. Carbon Di-oxide (CO2)
4. Air
Notes:
1. Freon gases - Its used for industrial HVAC Equipment like Chiller, PAC, Split
and Windows A/C (Its mainly used for vapour compression system)
2. Ammonia (NH3) - Its used in the ice manufacturing and cold storage
plants.(Its mainly used for vapour absorption system
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