College of Maritime Transport & Technology

Marine Engineering Technology

Refrigeration And Air Conditioning
ME 434 T
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Cooling
load calculation

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 Lecture Objectives
1. To be familiar with cooling load calculation in
refrigeration applications.

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 Cooling load Calculation
Qtot = QT+Qsun+QP+QA+Qs
Where:
• Qtot…...Total Load
• QT…....Transmission Load
• QSun….Sun Load
• QP…....Product Load
• QA…...Air change Load
• Qs…...Service Load

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 Sun load Calculation
QS = Qceiling+Qtwo walls

QS = Σ.U.A.ΔTS

ΔTS = α.I / ho

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 Product load Calculation
T

1
Above Freezing T
i
(a.f)
2 3
Freezing Temp Tf

Below Freezing T 4
e
(b.f)

time
Ƭ
Cooling Time
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 Where:
• mp.………...Product mass.
• Ƭ…………..Cooling time.
• Ca.f………...Specific heat of product above freezing.
• Cb.f …..…...Specific heat of product below freezing.
• Ti….............Initial product temperature.
• Te………… Exit product temperature.
• Tf……….... Freezing temperature.
• L…………..Latent heat of freezing.
• q respiration….Heat of respiration for life products.

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 Air change load Calculation

Where:
• ξ.………...Number of air change per day
• V………...Cold store volume.

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 Service load Calculation
Qs = QL+Qw+QM
Where:
• QL.………...Light load
• Qw.………...Workers load
• QM.………...Motor load

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 Evaporator Capacity

Where:
• Qe.………...Evaporator Capacity.
• n…………..Number of evaporators.
• H………….Machine working hours per day.
• fs …..……..Factor of safety.

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