REFRIGERANT PIPING

Type L Copper Tubing – C12200

Chemical Composition
ASTM B68 - Standard Specification for Seamless Copper Tube, Bright Annealed 1

Calculation of Cooling Load

Before the design process, it is essential that the refrigerating capacity of the
refrigeration system is well-established. As the researchers have decided to utilize a secondary
brine cooling system, the rate in which heat transfer occurs from the cooling load must be stated.
The refrigeration training unit is to be designed to produce 3 kg of ice for 2 hours. The training
unit will utilize regular tap water at room temperature (25 ℃ ) and transform it to ice at -5℃ .
The required heat rejection rate of the evaporator will be 0.18675 kW or 637.18 BTU/hr.

Design Specifications
The evaporator will have a bare-tube coil design. Due to the corrosive nature of the
secondary brine cooling system, the evaporator coils will be made up of Type L (medium
thickness) phosphorus-deoxidized copper (Cu-DHP) C12200 tubes. The evaporator coils will be
designed to be completely submerged inside the brine tank to eliminate the necessity of an
additional brine water pump. For the size of the copper tubing, the researchers consulted safety
standards included in ASME B31.5 Refrigeration Piping and Heat Transfer Components (2013).

Properties of Refrigerant
The refrigerant will be operating at a temperature of -5 degrees Celsius inside the bare
tube evaporator. The thermophysical properties of the refrigerant R-134A (1,1,1,2-
Tetraflouroethane) will be determined at this given temperature. The researchers will utilize the
given properties provided by the ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook (2021). The properties of
the refrigerant is summarized by Table #.
Specific Volume 0.08287 m3
kg
Specific Heat, c p 0.8755
Thermal Conductivity (vapor) 11.085
Viscosity (vapor) 10.53
Hg 395.655
Hf 193.32
Latent Heat, h fg 202.335