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Refrigeration cycle
LAB REPORT CEL2B
FLORDELH TENDRESSE POUENGUY TSALAT 219388857
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SHORT Marks Assessor
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REPORS Marks
Executive
A Summary or 10
Introduction
Presentation ;
B
of Results 30
C Discussion 7
D Conclusion 3
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Table of Contents
Introduction:.........................................................................................................................................2
Results...................................................................................................................................................2
Discussion:............................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion:............................................................................................................................................3
Appendix:..............................................................................................................................................4
Calculations:..........................................................................................................................................4
References:...........................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction:
Global warming and climate change, human exercises and other unsafe regular occasions lead to an
expanding in normal worldwide temperatures. This is caused principally because of expansion in
"nursery" gases, for example, Carbon Dioxide (CO2). In customary fume pressure refrigeration
measure, the blower devours electrical energy which is gotten from the ignition of petroleum
products. In this way, to relieve the fast-approaching danger, we need to confine the utilization of
fume pressure refrigeration measure by some elective refrigeration measure. Assimilation
refrigeration system uses poor quality heat or waste heat for refrigeration rather than electrically
driven compressor.

Refrigeration is bothered with the absorption of heat from wherever it is objectionable plus its
handover to and rejection at a room where it is unobjectionable. No matter income by which is heat
transfer is accomplished; the matter is one of applied thermodynamics. In few methods of
refrigeration, the operational medium that influence perfect gases may be applied. A refrigerant is a
compound used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change from a gas to a liquid and back. The
two main uses of refrigerants are refrigerators/freezers and air conditioners. In broadest sense the
word refrigerant is additionally applied to such secondary cooling medium as brine solutions, cooled
water.

Results

number Ps(psi) Ts(0 F)

1 50 43
2 160 110
3 155 100
4 50 43

Discussion:
The results show no heat temperature acquired is emphatically subject to opening of the hole and
sidestep valves. There is an ideal motivation for the valve openings. At the point when the hole valve
is opened there is a drop in its opposition and in this way the presentation of PTR changes. It is seen
that exhibition of hole beat tube cooler can be improved by presenting a detour valve. Presentation
of the detour builds the sufficiency of the weight change on the virus side of the beat tube and
lessens the stage point, with clear impacts effects on the performance. The results seen to be quite
vulnerable to the bypass resistance. Large beginning of the bypass valve gets negative effect on the
performance. Overall, the results reveal a complex behaviour with respect to the orifice and bypass
adjustments, which can be attributed to the fact that instantaneous division of flow between the
two parallel paths depends upon the instantaneous impedances of the two paths.

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Pulse tube refrigerator works at low frequencies. Frequency defines the circulation depth in the
working liquid and the regenerator material. At the point when recurrence is expanded dispersion
profundity diminishes and the heat amassing in the regenerator debases. High working recurrence
implies a major weight drop in the regenerator, which prompts a lower performance. Hence low
frequencies (1 Hz and 2 Hz) were used. It was detected that with a frequency of 2 Hz smaller no load
temperature could be achieved. This can be attributed to the fact that higher frequency increases
time averaged enthalpy flow. Q evaporator seems to be equal to zero meaning no heat at the
entrance.

Conclusion:
A refrigerator has been constructed and checked with different valve openings, frequencies, and
operating fluid. The proof of concept has been established. The results show that in the presence of
relatively high-pressure gradients in the regenerator, the bypass improves performance by reducing
these gradients and by improving the phase relationship between pressure and mass flow. Lowest
no load temperature obtained is 213 K.

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Appendix:

Calculations:
0.38−0.30
1. volumetric flow rate= × ( 24−20 )+ 0.30
25−20

ft 3 0.30483 m3
volumetric flow rate=0.368 =0.368 ×
h 3600 s

−6 m3
¿ 2.894 ×10
s

0.0008657−0.0008595
2. v f = ( 37.7−36 ) +0.0008595
38−36
t=100 ℉=37.77 ℃

−4 m3
v f =8.64 ×10
kg

3.mass flow rate

volumetric flow rate 2.894 ×10−6 −3

mass flow rate= = =3.35 ×10 kg / s
vf 8.64 ×10 −4

4.heat duty of the evaporator (capacity, Q)

Qev =mass flow rate( h1−h 4)

By interpolation

H1=252.32kj/kg

H2=273.005kj/kg

H3=270.2865kj/kg

H4=252.32kj/kg

Qev =0.003236 × ( 252.32−270.2865 ) =−0.58kw

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 −3
Qcond =0.003236 ( 273.005−270.2865 ) =8.862× 10 Kw
T2 288.706
COP theo= = =43.3
T 1 −T 2 295.372−278.706

h1−h4 252.32−252.32
C o P experimental= = =0
h2 −h1 273.005−252.32

pcomp=mass flow rate ( h2−h1 ) =0.003236 ( 273.005−252.32 ) =0.066 kw

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References:
1. Ray Radebaugh, Development of the Pulse Tube refrigerator as an Efficient and Reliable
Cryocooler, Proc. Institute of Refrigeration (London) 1999-2000.

2. Ray Radebaugh, Pulse Tube cryocoolers for cooling Infrared Sensors, Proceedings of SPIE, The
International society for Optical Engineering, Infrared Technology and Applications XXVI, Vol.4130,
pp. 363-379 (2000).

3. Ray Radebaugh, Advances in cryocoolers, Proc. ICEC16/ICMC, Japan, 1966, pp. 33- 44, Elsevier
Science, Oxford, 1997.