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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

REFRIGERATION & AIR CONDITIONING


TUTORIAL -1

1. A refrigerator based on reversed Carnot cycle works between two such temperatures
that the ratio between the low and high temperature is 0.8. If a heat pump is operated
between same temperature range, then what would be its COP?
2. An ideal refrigerator is operating between a condenser temperature of 37º C and a
evaporator temperature of –3º C. If the machine is functioning as a heat pump, What
will be COP?
3. A refrigerating machine working on reversed Carnot cycle takes out 2 kW of heat
from the system at 200 K while working between temperature limits of 300 K and 200
K. Calculate C.O.P. and power consumed by the cycle.
4. A building in a cold climate is to be heated by a Carnot heat pump. The minimum
outside temperature is –23°C. If the building is to be kept at 27°C and heat
requirement is at the rate of 30 kW, what is the minimum power required for heat
pump?
5. The coefficient of performance of a refrigerator working on a reversed Carnot cycle is
4. What will be the ratio of the highest absolute temperature to the lowest absolute
temperature?
6. It is proposed to build refrigeration plant for a cold storage to be maintained at – 3°C.
The ambient temperature is 27°C. If 5 × 106 kJ/h of energy is to be continuously
removed from the cold storage, What will be the MINIMUM power required to run
the refrigerator?
7. Derive an expression for the COP of an ideal gas refrigeration cycle with a
regenerative heat exchanger. Express the result in terms of the minimum gas
temperature during heat rejection (Th) maximum gas temperature during heat
absorption (T1) and pressure ratio for the cycle is p1 and p2.
8. A cold storage plant is required to store 50 tons of fish. The temperature at which fish
was supplied = 35°C Storage temperature of fish = -10°C
Cp of fish above freezing point = 2.94kJ/kg°C
Cp of fish below freezing point = 1.26 kJ/kg°C
Freezing point of fish = -5°C
Latent heat of fish = 250 kJ/kg
If the cooling is achieved within half of a day, find:
a) Capacity of the refrigerating plant
b) Carnot COP
c) If actual COP = Carnot COP/2.5 find the power required to run the plant.
9. An air refrigerator working on the principle of Bell-Coleman cycle. The air into the
compressor is at 1 atm at -10ºC. It is compressed to 10 atm and cooled to 40ºC at the
same pressure. It is then expanded to 1 atm and discharged to take cooling load. The
air circulation is 1 kg/s. The isentropic efficiency of the compressor = 80%
The isentropic efficiency of the expander = 90%
Find the following:
a) Refrigeration capacity of the system
b) C.O.P of the system
Take = 1.4, Cp = 1.00 kJ/kg ºC
10. A refrigerator working on Bell-Coleman cycle (Reverse Brayton cycle) operates
between 1 bar and 10 bar. Air is drawn from cold chamber at -10ºC. Air coming out
of compressor is cooled to 50ºC before entering the expansion cylinder. Polytropic
law P.V1.3 = constant is followed during expansion and compression. Find theoretical
C.O.P of the origin. Take =1.4 and Cp = 1.00 kJ/kg 0C for air.

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