University of Cebu – Main Campus

College of Engineering
ME 312C – Refrigeration System

Quiz No. 3

Instruction: Solve the following problems. Write your solution on a clean short
bond paper. Make sure to box all your final answer for each item. Strictly no
erasures allowed.

1. Refrigerant-134a enters the compressor of a refrigerator at 100 kPa and

22080C at a rate of 0.5 m3 /min and leaves at 0.8 MPa. The isentropic
efficiency of the compressor is 78 percent. The refrigerant enters the
throttling valve at 0.75 MPa and 268C and leaves the evaporator as saturated
vapor at 2268C. Show the cycle on a T-s diagram with respect to saturation
lines, and determine:

A. the power input to the compressor,

B. the rate of heat removal from the refrigerated space, and
C. the pressure drops and rate of heat gain in the line between the
evaporator and the compressor.

2. A Freon 12 refrigeration system, with 10 TR capacity and a coefficient of

performance of 3.23, operates with a condenser pressure of 984.5 kPa and an
evaporator pressure of 150.8 kPa. The temperatures entering and leaving the
compressor are -10 0C and 80 0C, respectively. The temperature entering the
expansion valve is 34 0C. The compressor is water jacketed and operates with
unknown pressure drops through the valves. Compute:

A. the mass flow rate per minute

B. the indicated work
C. the heat removed by the jacket water.