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CCET,
Karur, India
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P.Senthilkumar
I. INTRODUCTION
R22 has been extensively used in vapour compression
refrigeration and air conditioning systems due to its admitted
thermodynamic and thermo-physical properties. Owing to its
poor environmental properties, it is phased out in many
developed countries, whereas the developing countries are in
transient to phase out R22 [1]. During the last decade, many
R22 alternative refrigerant mixtures are developed and
experienced in order to fulfill the guidelines of the Montreal
protocol [2-4]. Among the alternatives, the hydrocarbons
(HCs) namely R290, R1270 and its mixtures R432A, R433A,
hydroflurocarbon mixtures (HFCs) namely R404A, R407C
and R410A and HFC/HC mixtures namely R417A and
R422A are recognized as the leading replacements for R22 in
refrigeration and air conditioning units.
The operational efficiency of an air conditioner working
with R407C is low and the stability is not assured [5]. Based
on the survey, new systems will be adopted by R410A and
the existing systems will be retained with R407C [6]. An
exergy analysis was carried out in a VCR system based on
experimental tests for evaluating the substitution of R22 with
R407C. The result revealed that the overall exergetic
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II. EXPERIMENTATION
The experimental test is carried out according to BIS
1391[15].The line diagram of an experimental setup is
depicted in Figure 1. The main elements of the system are
hermetically sealed reciprocating compressor, an air cooled
condenser, a liquid receiver, a sealed type refrigerant drier, a
sight glass, two refrigerant flow meters (for liquid line and
vapour line), a thermostatic expansion device and a plate
finned air cooled evaporator. To get the visual conformation
of the refrigerant state, a sight glass is installed at the
evaporator outlet.
des,cond
in,cond
out ,cond
cond cond
condenser outlet pressure and the refrigerant pressure after
using
expansion. To measure the flow rate of liquid and vapour In evaporator, the exergy destruction is computed
.
.
refrigerant, two flow meters with an accuracy of 1 % are
(4)
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(
) Qevp evp
installed. Compressor input current is measured using a Ex des ,evp m ex in ,evp ex out , evp
digital wattmeter with an accuracy of 0.5 W. The total The exergy destruction in the expansion valve is assessed as,
.
energy consumption is recorded by using a digital energy
(5)
=
(
)
meter with an accuracy of 0.5 kWh. The charging
des ,exv
in , exv
out , exv
refrigerant mixture mass proportion is determined by using The exergetic temperature which is a dimensionless quantity
an electronic balance with 0.1 g accuracy.
is calculated as,
T Temperature
P Pressure
RH Relative humudity
Air velocity
Wattmeter
Energymeter
RH
Compressor
RH
Condenser
Drier
Expansion valve
Orificemeter
Air heater
Ambient air
Manometer
Sight glass
Liquid receiver
Ex
m ex
Ex
m ex
Ex
m ex
=1
T
T
ex
ex
ex
(6)
MT
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=W
des, i
(7)
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W
Ex
T0
TMT
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VI. CONCLUSION
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NOMENCLATURE
VCC
VCR
Ex
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