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This paper provides a detailed exergy analysis for theoretical vapour compression refrigeration
cycle using R404A, R407C and R410A. The equations of exergetic efficiency and exergy
destruction for the main system components such as compressor, condenser expansion device,
liquid-vapour heat exchanger and evaporator are developed. The relations for total exergy
destruction in the system, the overall exegetic efficiency of the system and Exergy Destruction
Ratio (EDR) related to exergetic efficiency are obtained. Also, an expression for Coefficient of
Performance (COP) of refrigeration cycle is developed. The investigations shows that various
results are obtained for the effect of evaporating temperatures, condensing temperatures, degree
of subcooling and effectiveness of liquid-vapour heat exchanger on COP, exergetic efficiency
and EDR of theoretical vapour compression refrigeration cycle.
Keywords: Exergetic analysis, Refrigeration system, Modelling, R404A, R407C, R410A
INTRODUCTION
Jabalpur Engineering College, Gokulpur, Ranjhi, Jabalpur 482011, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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R404A
R407C
R410A
Molar Mass
97.60
86.20
72.58
46.45
43.56
51.6
72.07
86.74
72.5
3.7315
4.6191
4.95
484.5
527.30
500
3859
1526
1725
A1
A1
A1
Certainty Class
EXERGY ANALYSIS
A modified vapour compression refrigeration
system consists of five components such as
evaporator, liquid-vapour heat exchanger,
compressor, condenser and expansion
device. All the components connected in a
closed loop through piping that has heat
transfer with the surrounding can be shown in
Figure 1. At point 11, refrigerant leaves the
evaporator at a low pressure, low temperature,
saturated vapour and enter the liquid vapour
heat exchanger where it absorbs the heat from
high pressure-temperature refrigerant flows
from the condenser. At state 1, the refrigerant
from the liquid-vapour heat exchanger enter
into compressor through the suction line where
both temperature and pressure increases. This
process can be shown in Figure 2. At state 2,
it leaves the compressor at a high pressure,
high temperature, superheated vapour
conditions and enter the condenser where it
reject heat to surrounding medium at constant
pressure after undergoing heat transfer in the
discharge line. Refrigerant leaves the
condenser at state 3, as a high pressure,
medium temperature, saturated liquid and
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COP
Qe
w
COP
h1 h4
h2 h2
...(1)
E d i me x in me x out
Q 1 T0 / T in Q 1 T0 / T out
...(2)
T
Ede E x 4 Qe 1 0 E x11
Tr
T
mr h4 T0S4 Qe 1 0
Tr
mr h11 T0S11
Exergy destruction in Compressor
Ed comp E x1 W E x2
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...(3)
mr T0S2
w
mech el
mr h2 T0S2
EP Qe 1
...(4)
ex
Edc E x2 E x3
...(5)
Qe 1
ex
...(11)
T0
Tr
...(12)
EDR
EDtotal
EP
mr h3 h33 h11 h1
...(7)
EDR
1
1
ex
...(13)
Exergy in product EP
Exergy of fuel
EF
mr h2 T0S2 mr h3 T0S3
T0 S3 S33 S11 S1
...(10)
T
Qc 1 0
Tc
T0
Tr
...(9)
i.e. , Qe 1
T0
. With increase in evaporator
Tr
T0
Tr
T0
has
Tr
negative effect on increase of exergetic
efficiency. The combined effects of these two
parameters, increases exergetic efficiency till
the optimum evaporator temperature and
beyond the optimum temperature decrease.
Because of exergetic efficiency is inversely
proportional to EDR; the curves trend for EDR
almost reverses to curves of exergetic
efficiency. With increases in evaporating
temperatures, EDR decreases till the optimum
evaporator temperature and beyond this
optimum temperature it increase. The
optimum evaporator is the temperature at
which minimum EDR is obtained. The
exergetic efficiency of R407C is 10-18%
higher than R404A and 14-20% higher than
R410A at 40 C condenser temperature. The
corresponding values at 55 C condenser
temperature are 13-20% and 15-21% higher,
respectively, for R407C. At both 40 C and
55 C condensers temperatures, R407C is
better than R404A and R410A. It also confirms
that with increase in condenser temperature
the difference among the exergetic efficiency
of R407C, R404A and R410A increases.
efficiency whereas the term 1
CONCLUSION
A computational model based exergy analysis
is presented for the investigation of the effects
of evaporating temperatures, condenser
temperature, degree of subcooling, and
effectiveness of the liquid vapour heat
exchanger on the COP, exergetic efficiency
and EDR of the vapour compression
refrigeration cycle for R404A, R407C and
R410A. The conclusions present in this
analysis are given as follows:
REFERENCES
1. Akhilesh Arora and Kaushik S C (2008),
Theoretical Analysis of a Vapour
untccc.int//resource/docs/convkp/
kpeng.pdf
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APPENDIX
Nomenclature
COP
EF
EL
EDR
Entropy (kJ/kg K)
Ed
EP
Ex
Enthalpy (kJ/kg)
Temperature (K)
Greek Notations
ex
Exergetic Efficiency
Tsub
Tsup
Subscripts
C
Condenser
Space temperature
Evaporator temperature
Compressor
T
Dead state
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