Refrigeration Engineering

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. A vapor compression refrigeration system has a 30-kW motor driving compressor with inlet
enthalpy of 345 kJ/kg and discharges with an enthalpy of 398 kJ/kg. Saturated liquid enters
the expansion valve at 238.5 kJ/kg enthalpy. Determine the capacity of the unit in Tons of
refrigeration.
a. 14.7 b. 17.1 c. 11.7 d. 16.6
ANS: B PTS: 1
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2.R-12 enters the evaporator at 3 C (hg=352.76kJ/kg ; hf=202.78kJ/kg). Determine the
amount of flash vapor that may be formed in kg/s if the refrigeration load is 400 kW and
condensing temperature is 37oC (hf=235.503 kJ/kg).
a. 0.734 c. 0.477
b. 0.744 d. 0.374
ANS: B PTS: 1

3. A reversed carnot cycle uses R-12 as the working fluid. Refrigerant enters the condenser as
saturated vapor at 30oC and leaves as saturated liquid. The evaporator temperature is at
constant -10oC. Determine the COP
a. 6.75 b. 6 c. 6.57 d. 7.65
ANS: C PTS: 1

4. The refrigeration system has a refrigerating capacity of 220 kJ/kg. The heat required to
remove is 630 kJ/hr. Calculate the mass circulated per hr.
a. 3.18 kg/hr b. 10 kg/hr c. 8 kg/hr d. 2.8 kg/hr
ANS: D PTS: 1

5. If the wet bulb and dry bulb reading of air temperature are identical
a. the thermometers are in error c. the relative humidity is zero
b. the air is saturated d. the relative humidity is zero
ANS: B PTS: 1
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6. Heat is supplied to 20 lbm of ice at 32 F at the rate of 160 BTU/s. If the heat of fusion is 144
BTU/lb, how long will it take to convert ice to water at 50oF (Cpw=1BTU/lboR).
a. 25.45s b. 20.25s c. 22.05s d. 25.20s
ANS: B PTS: 1

7. On a cold night the temperature was reported to be same in Fahrenheit and Celsius reading at
(no answer)
a. 33oC c. -33oC
b. -40oC d. 40oC
ANS: A PTS: 1
 8. Consider an air-water vapor mixture similar to the atmosphere. If the dry bulb temperature
equals the dew point temperature, the relative humidity is
a. 0% c. 75%
b. 0% d. 100%
ANS: D PTS: 1

9. Sensible heat
a. can be measured with a thermometer c. increases with cold
b. Cannot be measured d. depends on the volume
ANS: A PTS: 1

10. What power is required to drive a refrigeration system with a COP of 5 to remove a heat
equivalent of 100 tons
a. 80 Hp c. 105.2 Hp
b. 94.4 Hp d. 30 Hp
ANS: B PTS: 1
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11. Atmospheric pressure air enters to a cooling unit at 27 C (Psat=3.5kPa) and has a specific
humidity of 0.009 kg of vapor per kg of dry air. Determine the relative humidity.
a. 40.6% b. 43.1% c. 41.3% d. 46%
ANS: C PTS: 1

12. As heat is removed from a substance it gets colder. When no more heat can be removed and
the temperature cannot be lowered any further, we have reached
a. perfect zero c. double zero
b. absolute zero d. cold zero
ANS: B PTS: 1

13. In an ideal refrigeration cycle, liquid leaves the condenser and is expanded in such a manner
that the enthalpy of the liquid is equal to the enthalpy of the resulting saturated mixture. This
type of expansion is known as:
a. throttling process c. adiabatic process d. isochoric
b. isothermal process
ANS: A PTS: 1

14. The lower horizontal line of the refrigeration cycle plotted on the pressure enthalpy diagram
represents
a. compression of refrigerant vapor c. condensation of refrigerant vapor
b. evaporation of liquid refrigerant d. metering of liquid refrigerant
ANS: B PTS: 1
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15. 10 kg of ice at 0 C are added to 100 kg of liquid at 40 C with specific heat of 4 kJ/kg K.
Calculate the temperature of the liquid just as the ice melts. The heat of fusion of ice is320
kJ/kg
a. 26oC b. 28oC c. 30oC d. 32oC
ANS: D PTS: 1
16. In which part of vapor compression system there is a change in pressure and temperature
a. Evaporator c. compressor
b. condenser d. dryer
ANS: C PTS: 1

17. What refrigerant is most commonly used for air conditioning of passenger air craft
a. ammonia c. CO2
b. R-11 d. air
ANS: D PTS: 1

18. The amount of heat required to change the temperature of one unit weight of substance into
one degree unit of temperature
a. specific heat c. latent heat
b. sensible heat d. None of the above
ANS: A PTS: 1

19. Air at a 4m by 4m by 4m room has a relative humidity of 80%. The pressure in the room is
120kPa and temperature of 35oC (Psat= 5.628kPa). What is the mass of vapor in air on the
room? (Rv=0.4615kJ/kg K)
a. 2.03kg c. 0.80kg
b. 1.50kg d. 4.80kg
ANS: A PTS: 1
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20. What is the heat transfer in the glass surface area of 0.7 m having an inside temperature of
25oC and 13oC outside temperature. The thickness of the glass is 0.007m and its thermal
conductivity is1.8 W/m K
a. 5.6kW b. 3.6kW c. 6.2kW d. 2.16kW
ANS: D PTS: 1

21. When air is saturated the wet bulb depression is

a. zero c. 50
b. unity d. 100
ANS: A PTS: 1

22. The power of a carnot refrigeration system in maintaining a low temperature region at 238.9
K is 1.1 kW per ton.

The coefficient of performance is

a. 3.0 b. 3.2 c. 4.2 d. 3.5 e. 4.5
ANS: B PTS: 1

23. The heat rejected is

a. 5.26kW b. 4.62kW c. 4.62kW d. 5.62kW e. 5.52kW
ANS: B PTS: 1
24. The temperature of heat rejection is
a. 314.6 K b. 312.6 K c. 331.6 K d. 313.6 K e. 300 K
ANS: D PTS: 1
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25. The amount of heat absorbed by one ton of H2O as it changes from solid to liquid state at 32 F
is equivalent to
a. 288000BTU c. 488000BTU
b. 388000BTU d. 188000BTU
ANS: A PTS: 1

26. How much heat in calorie is produced in 5 min by an electric iron which draws 5 amp from a
220 volts line. There are approximately 2.239 cal/joule
a. 738870 c. 739000
b. 738880 d. 739880
ANS: A PTS: 1

27. The boiling point of ammonia at atmospheric pressure is:

a. -28oC c. 28oF
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b. 28 C d. -28oF
ANS: D PTS: 1
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28. Determine the time in seconds will it take to raise temp of 136 kg of water from 30 to 80 C by
means of a 3 kW immersion heater when the heat losses are 10%.
a. 10500s b. 10000s c. 10447s d. 10578s e. 11000s
ANS: C PTS: 1

29. A refrigeration system has a volumetric flow rate of 7 L/s at the suction of compressor. If the
volumetric efficiency of the compressor efficiency is 0.8, estimate the volume displacement
rate in L/s
a. 5.6 b. 6.0 c. 6.5 d. 8.75
ANS: D PTS: 1

30. How much air in kg/s is needed to evaporate 100 kg of moisture in 6 hr if the drying air
temperature is 43oC and the ambient temperature is 30oC. Assume the latent heat of
vaporization of H2O is 2500kJ/kg and the specific heat of air is 1 kJ/kg.
a. 0.89 c. 7.69
b. 1.28 d. 192.3
ANS: A PTS: 1

31. Consider 1.0 cm wall made of polyethylene board (k=0.026W/mK) which is exposed to still
air (h=9.37W/m2K) on the inside and the other surface exposed to 24km/hr wind
(h=34W/m2K). Determine the overall coefficient of heat transfer in W/m2K.
a. 0.0075 c. 1.92
b. 0.052 d. 5.73
ANS: C PTS: 1
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32. The tank of an air compressor has a volume of 0.2 m and is filled with dry air (R=287J/kgK)
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at a temperature of35 C. If the absolute pressure of the tank is 7.5 bars, what is the mass of air
in the tank?
a. 1.0 kg c. 1.5 kg
b. 1.7 kg d. 1.2 kg
ANS: B PTS: 1

33. The vertical line of refrigeration cycle plotted in the pressure enthalpy diagram represents
a. compression of refrigerant vapor c. condensation of refrigerant vapor
b. evaporation of liquid refrigerant d. metering/expansion of liquid
refrigerant
ANS: D PTS: 1

34. A refrigeration system on the reversed carnot cycle has a minimum and maximum
temperature of -25oC and 72oC respectively. If the heat rejected in the condenser is 6000
kJ/min. Determine the required power.
a. 16.868kJ/min c. 1,686.8kJ/min
b. 168.68kJ/min d. 168,680kJ/min
ANS: C PTS: 1

35. A house hold refrigerator with COP of 1.8 removes heat from refrigerated space at a rate of
90kJ/min. Determine the power consumed by the refrigerator
a. 0.96 kW b. 0.83 kW c. 1.5 kW d. 0.56 kW
ANS: B PTS: 1

36. An air conditioner removes heat steadily from a house at a rate of 50 kJ/min, while drawing
electric power at a rate of 6 kW. Determine the rate of heat discharge to the outside air.
a. 410 kJ/min b. 220 kJ/min c. 510 kJ/min d. 120 kJ/min
ANS: A PTS: 1
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37. A carnot refrigerator operates in a room with temperature of 25 C. The refrigerator consumes
500 W of power and had a COP of 4.5. Determine the temperature of the refrigerated space.
a. -29.2oC c. -19.2oC
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b. -39.2 C d. -9.2oC
ANS: A PTS: 1

38. A refrigerator receives 6000 kJ/min of heat when operating between temperature limits of
minus 15oC and 38oC. If the coefficient of performance is 60% of a carnot refrigerator
operating at the same temperature limits, find the required power input of the refrigerator.
a. 30.5 kW b. 34.2 kW c. 3.52 kW d. 35.2 kW
ANS: B PTS: 1