Thermodynamic Performance Evaluation of Multi-Evaporators Single Compressor and Single Expansion Valve and Liquid Vapour Heat Exchanger in Vapour Compression Refrigeration Systems using Thirteen Ecofriendly Refrigerants for Reducing Global Warming and Ozo

Abstract

The methods for improving first law and second law efficiency have been considered in this paper by using liquid vapour heat exchanger is investigated in this paper. Detailed energy and exergy analysis of multi-evaporators at different temperatures with single compressor and single expansion valve using liquid vapour heat exchanger vapour compression refrigeration systems have been done in terms of performance parameter for R507a, R125, R134a, R290, R600, R600a, R1234ze, R1234yf, R410a, R407c, R707, R404a and R152a refrigerants. The numerical computations have been carried out for both systems. It was observed that first law and second law efficiency improved by 20% using liquid vapour heat exchanger in the vapour compression refrigeration systems. It was also observed that performance of both systems using R717 is higher but R600 and R152a nearly matching same values under the accuracy of 5% can be used in the above system .But difficulties using R152a, R600, R290 and R600a have flammable problems therefore safety measures are required using these refrigerants. Therefore R134a refrigerant is recommended for practical and commercial applications although it has slightly less thermal performance than R152a which is not widely used refrigerant for domestic and industrial applications