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    Refrigeration involves transferring heat from a lower temperature region to a higher temperature one using a refrigeration system. A refrigeration system has four main components: a compressor, condenser, metering device, and evaporator. It operates in a refrigeration cycle where a refrigerant is compressed, condenses while releasing heat, expands to a low pressure liquid, and evaporates while absorbing heat to repeat the cycle.

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    Refrigeration involves transferring heat from a lower temperature region to a higher temperature one using a refrigeration system. A refrigeration system has four main components: a compressor, condenser, metering device, and evaporator. It operates in a refrigeration cycle where a refrigerant is compressed, condenses while releasing heat, expands to a low pressure liquid, and evaporates while absorbing heat to repeat the cycle.

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    Refrigeration involves transferring heat from a lower temperature region to a higher temperature one using a refrigeration system. A refrigeration system has four main components: a compressor, condenser, metering device, and evaporator. It operates in a refrigeration cycle where a refrigerant is compressed, condenses while releasing heat, expands to a low pressure liquid, and evaporates while absorbing heat to repeat the cycle.

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    Refrigeration: “It is the transfer of heat from a lower temperature region to a higher

    temperature one. Devices that produce refrigeration are called refrigerators.”

    Principles of Refrigeration: “Liquids absorb heat when changed from liquid to gas (latent
    heat of vaporization), Gases give off heat when changed from gas to liquid (latent heat of
    condensation).”
    There are four main components in a refrigeration system:

     Compressor
     Condensing Coil
     Metering Device
     Evaporator.

    “ Refrigeration system”

    The cycles on which they operate are called refrigeration cycle or a cooling cycle.

    Four basic processes:


    1. Compressor: The refrigerant comes into the compressor as a low-pressure gas, it is
    compressed and then moves out of the compressor as a high-pressure gas.
    “Isentropic compression (in a compressor)”

    2. Condenser: The gas then flows to the condenser. Here the gas condenses to a liquid, and
    gives off its heat to the outside air.

    “constant pressure heat rejection (in a condenser)”

    3. Expansion Valve/ Metering Device: The liquid then moves to the expansion valve
    under high pressure. This valve restricts the flow of the fluid, and lowers its pressure as it
    leaves the expansion valve.

    “isentropic expansion (in a metering device such as throttling valve)”

    4. Evaporator: The low-pressure liquid then moves to the evaporator, where heat from the
    inside air is absorbed and changes it from a liquid to a gas.
    “constant pressure heat addition (in an evaporator)”
    “Compressor As a hot low-pressure gas, the refrigerant moves to the compressor where the
    entire cycle is repeated.”

    Temperature and Entropy diagram:

    Pressure Volume diagram:

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