RAC Assign 1

Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology,
Management and Gramothan, Jaipur

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Subject: Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning (6ME5-11) MM:36
Assignment 1 (Common to All Sections of VI Sem.)
Short Answers (All questions carry One mark each.)
Q.1 What amount of heat is required to melt one ton of ice in 24 hours?
Q.2 What is the use of Flash Chamber in a vapour compression cycle?
Q.3 What is the difference between a refrigerator and a heat pump?
Q.4 Describe the liquid vapour heat exchanger in a vapour compression cycle with the
help of neat sketch.
Q.5 Draw a schematic diagram of a boot strap cycle for air refrigeration system?
Q.6 Why isentropic expansion is used in gas refrigeration cycle instead of throttling?
Q.7 Draw T-s and P-v diagram for the Brayton cycle and write its COP in term of
pressure ratio (γP).
Q.8 Sketch the P-h & T-s diagrams of a vapour compression refrigeration system when
the vapour after compression is (i) dry saturated (ii) wet
Q.9 Draw a schematic diagram of two stage compression with water intercooler, liquid
sub-cooler and liquid flash chamber.
Q.10 Which system is adopted to achieve -50°C temperature? Draw its schematic
diagram.
Analysis/Application (All questions carry Two marks each.)
Q.11 A refrigerator’s storage is supplied with 3600 kJ of a substance at a temperature of
27°C. A substance has to be cooled at -23°C. The cooling is about 10 hours. The
specific heat of substance is 2 kJ/kg.K above freezing point and the latent heat of
freezing is 230 kJ/kg. What is the power required to drive the plant in kW if the
actual COP is the half of the ideal COP? RTU-2018, 2013
Q.12 A gas refrigeration system working on reversed Brayton cycle as a temperature of
250K at the inlet of compressor. If the temperature at the end of constant pressure
cooling is 300K and raising the temperature of air in refrigerator is 50K, then find
the net work out? (Take CP = 1 kJ/kg-K) RTU-2018,2013
Q.13 Explain the effect of following on the performance of VCRS with the help of
T-s and P-h chart
(i) Decrease in evaporator pressure
(ii) Increase in condenser pressure
(iii) Sub-cooling of saturated liquid
Q.14 The higher we go, the cooler we find, and then why air craft is air conditioned
when they cruise at an altitude of 8000 m? RTU-2018,2016,2015
Q.15 Discuss the actual vapour compression cycle with the help of p-h and T-s diagram.
What is the effect of discharge pressure and suction pressure on the COP of a
vapour compression refrigeration cycle? RTU-2013,2016, 2017, 2018
Descriptive/Design Questions (All questions carry Four marks each.)

Q.16 A Bell Coleman refrigeration system is used to produce 10 tons of refrigeration.
The cooler and refrigerator pressure are 4.2 bars and 1.4 bars. Air is cooled in the
cooler to 45° C and the temperature of air at the inlet of the compressor is -20° C.
For the ideal cycle, Calculate COP, mass of air circulated/min, theoretical piston
displacement of the compressor and the power required per ton of refrigeration.
Assume Cp for air as 1.005 kJ/ kg-K. Find the cylinder dimensions if the
compressor is single acting. Single cylinder with stroke/diameter ratio of 1.2 and
runs at 600 rpm. Take γ = 1.4, K = 0.287
Q.17 Following results were obtained on a vapour compression refrigerator: Evaporator
temperature – 280C, condenser pressure = 2.75 bar , refrigerant leaving the
condenser is 3oC superheat , refrigerant leaving the condenser is at 12.80C .
Determine the COP .use the following data
Pressure(bar) Saturation Enthalpy Entropy Specific heat (KJ/Kg-K)

Temperature (KJ/Kg|) (KJ/Kg)
liquid Vapour liquid Vapour
2.75 14 438.48 802.9 1.381 0.669
5.5287
0.412 -28.5 381.58 783.24 5.6852
Q.18 An air craft moving with speed of 1000 km/ hour uses simple gas refrigeration
cycle for air conditioning. The ambient pressure and temperature are 0.35 bar and -10° C
respectively. The pressure ratio of compressor is 4.5. The heat exchanger effectiveness is
0.95. The isentropic efficiencies of compressor and expander are 0.8 each. The cabin
pressure and temperature are 1.06 bar and 25° C. Determine temperatures and pressures
at all points of the cycle. Also find the volume flow rate through compressor inlet and
expander outlet for 100TR.Take Cp =1.005 kJ/kg-K. R =0.287 kJ/ kg K and Cp/ Cv =1.4
for air. RTU-2015
Q.19 A compound refrigeration system using R-12 as refrigerant consists of three
evaporators of capacities 20TR at -5°C, 30 TR at 0°C and 10 TR at 5°C. The
vapours leaving the evaporators are dry and saturated. The system is provided with
individual expansion valve and flash intercoolers. The condenser temperature is
40°C and the liquid refrigerant leaving the condenser is sub-cooled to 30°C.
Assuming isentropic compression at each stage, find:
a. the mass of refrigerant passing through each compressor
b. the power required to drive the system RTU-2014

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Management and Gramothan, Jaipur

Descriptive/Design Questions (All questions carry Four marks each.)

Pressure(bar) Saturation Enthalpy Entropy Specific heat (KJ/Kg-K)

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