Friday 18 October 2013

Vapour Compression Refrigeration Cycle

Vapour compression refrigeration systems are the most commonly used among all refrigeration systems. As the name implies, these systems belong to the general class of vapour cycles, wherein the working fluid (refrigerant) undergoes phase change at least during one process. In a vapour compression refrigeration system, refrigeration is obtained as the refrigerant evaporates at low temperatures. The input to the system is in the form of mechanical energy required to run the compressor. Hence these systems are also called as mechanical refrigeration systems. Vapour compression refrigeration systems are available to suit almost all applications with the refrigeration capacities ranging from few Watts to few megawatts. A wide variety of refrigerants can be used in these systems to suit different applications, capacities etc. The actual vapour compression cycle is based on Evans-Perkins cycle, which is also called as reverse Rankine cycle.

Vapour Compression Refrigeration System

Compression: In this process vapour is drawn in the compressor cylinder during its suction stroke and is isentropically compressed to pressure P2 during its compression stroke. Hence temperature of vapour increases. 
Condensation: The vapours after leaving the compressor enters the condenser where is is condensed to high pressure liquid. cooling water is supplied to remove heat from the vapour.
Expansion: high pressure liquid is now expanded through throttle valve and the liquid at stage 3 is throttled to lower pressure P1 and has a low temperature. After throttling we get vapours at low temperature.
Vapourization: After the throttle valve the wet vapours are passed through the evaporator. The vapour absorbs the heat from the surrounding hence reach the condition 1.


Figure shows the schematic of a standard, saturated, single stage (SSS) vapour compression refrigeration system and the operating cycle on a T s diagram. As shown in the figure the standard single stage, saturated vapour compression refrigeration system consists of the following four processes:

Process 1-2: Isentropic compression of saturated vapour in compressor
Process 2-3: Isobaric heat rejection in condenser
Process 3-4: Isenthalpic expansion of saturated liquid in expansion device
Process 4-1: Isobaric heat extraction in the evaporator

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