Performance evaluation of a vapor compression heat pump cycle using binary zeotropic refrigerant mixtures
The HCFC refrigerants such as R22 have been used widely as working fluids in refrigeration and air-conditioning systems until now. These refrigerants, however, should be phased out early in the next century to prevent the depletion of the ozone layer. In this situation, binary and/or ternary mixtures composed of HFC and/or natural refrigerants have attracted a great deal of attention due to the following possibilities: (1) to improve the coefficient of performance, COP, by utilizing the temperature glide during phase change processes; (2) to keep the system in more suitable condition for given temperature levels of heat source and heat sink by selecting the combination and composition of refrigerants, etc. From this point of view, in the present study, the performance prediction of a vapor compression heat pump cycle using binary zeotropic refrigerant mixtures is carried out to clarify the effects of the combination of refrigerants, the composition of refrigerants and the size of heat exchangers on COP. In the prediction calculation, a vapor compression heat pump cycle, which consists of a compressor, a vertical plate-fin condenser, an expansion valve, a liquid-vapor separator and a vertical plate-fin evaporator is treated, and the following assumptions are employed: (1) the compression process is isentropic, (2) the expansion process is isenthalpic, (3) the refrigerant is a saturated liquid at the condenser outlet and a superheated vapor at the evaporator outlet, (4) the pressure drop in the condenser is negligible, while that in the evaporator is considered, (5) the local heat transfer characteristics in heat exchangers are considered. The prediction calculation is done for the binary zeotropic refrigerant mixtures of HFC134a/HCFC123 on condition that the heat source water temperature at the condenser outlet, the heat sink water temperature at the evaporator inlet, the water temperature change through condenser and evaporator, the heat load of condenser, the superheat of refrigerant vapor at the evaporator outlet and the size of heat exchangers are given as known parameters.
- Research Organization:
- Kyushu Univ., Kasuga (JP)
- OSTI ID:
- 20030450
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5th ASME/JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, San Diego, CA (US), 03/14/1999--03/19/1999; Other Information: 1 CD-ROM. Operating system required: Windows i386(tm), i486(tm), Pentium (R) or Pentium Pro, MS Windows 3.1, 95, or NT 3.51, 8 MB RAM, MacIntosh and Power MacIntosh with a 68020 or greater processor, System software version 7.1, 3.5 MB RAM (5 MB for PowerMac) 6 MB available hard-disk space, Unix; PBD: 1999; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 5th ASME/JSME thermal engineering joint conference, [3600] pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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