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Wah Engineering College: Heat Ventillation & Air Conditioning

The document describes a lab experiment on a refrigeration test bench. It lists the components of the test bench including a condenser, evaporator, compressor, pumps and tanks. It then describes the three fluid circuits: refrigerant, cooling water, and brine. It provides an overview of the vapor compression refrigeration cycle which uses changes in pressure and the latent heat of vaporization to transfer heat from a cold reservoir to a hot reservoir. It outlines the four stages of the cycle: compression, condensation, throttling, and evaporation.

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Wah Engineering College: Heat Ventillation & Air Conditioning

The document describes a lab experiment on a refrigeration test bench. It lists the components of the test bench including a condenser, evaporator, compressor, pumps and tanks. It then describes the three fluid circuits: refrigerant, cooling water, and brine. It provides an overview of the vapor compression refrigeration cycle which uses changes in pressure and the latent heat of vaporization to transfer heat from a cold reservoir to a hot reservoir. It outlines the four stages of the cycle: compression, condensation, throttling, and evaporation.

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Lab Report HV & AC

WAH ENGINEERING COLLEGE


HEAT VENTILLATION & AIR CONDITIONING

EXPERIMENT NO: 6
Objective:

Measurement of Refrigerant Temperature & Pressure, Corresponding to various stages


of Vapor Compression Cycle on Refrigeration Test Bench, OSK-4568

Tasks :
Demonstration on the Refrigeration Test Bench included following :
 Various components of the Test bench
 Fluid/ Refrigerant Circuit
 Working/ Functioning & Testing/ demonstration

Components of Test Bench


 Condenser
 Evaporator
 Compressor
 Brine Pump ( Centrifugal/Motor driven)
 Brine Tank ( insulated)
 Ice Vessel
 Heat Exchanger ( Gas to Liquid & Vice Versa)
 Expansion Valve ( Thermostatic, Flow Meter)
 Pressure Gage, Thermometer, Sight Glass.

Fluid Circuits
Following are the Three Fluid Circuits:

 Refrigerant circuit
 Cooling Water Circuit
 Brine Circuit
This unit incorporated a cylinder open type refrigerant compressor and a water cooled
condenser, Vee belt driven by an AC motor. A glycol ethylene chiller through which the
refrigerant flow is controlled by thermostatic expansion valve, produces chilled brine.

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The Glycol Ethelyne Brine circulated by a motor driven pump, through an insulated tank
incorporated ice-vessel.

Introduction:
The most commonly used method of cooling is with Vapor Compression Cycle, because
it is fairly easy to construct a cooling device employing this method and the cost is low.
In fact, conventional refrigerators use this method of cooling to keep your leftovers and
drinks chilled.
Air conditioners also employ a vapor compression cycle to cool the ambient air
temperature in a room.
Basically, vapor-compression cycle refrigeration employ a heat engine run backwards, so
heat energy is taken from a cold reservoir and deposited into a hot reservoir,
By the second law or thermodynamics heat energy dose not spontaneously transfer
from a cold to hot reservoir.
Vapour-compression Refrigeration Cycle:
This refrigeration cycle is approximately a Rankin cycle run in reverse. A working
fluid is pushed through the system and undergoes state changes. The latent heat of
vaporization of the refrigerant is used to transfer large amounts of heat energy, and
changes in pressure are used to control when the refrigerant expels or absorbs heat
energy.
State of the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle:
The vapor-compression refrigeration cycle is comprised of four steps.

The PV diagram changes during each part.

Compression:(1-2)

The refrigerant enters the compressor as a gas under low pressure and having a low
temperature. Then the refrigerant is compressed adiabatically, so the fluid leaves the
compressor under high pressure and with a high temperature.

Condensation:(2-3)

The high pressure, temperature gas releases heat energy and condenses inside the
“condenser” portion of the system. The condenser is in contact with the hot reservoir of
the refrigerant system. The refrigerant leaves the condenser at high pressure.

Thorttling:(3-4)

The liquid refrigerant is pushed through a throttling valve,which causes it to expand.


Now the refrigerant has low pressure & lower temperature, while still in the liquid

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phase (Throttling valve can be either a thin slit or some sort of plug with holes in it.
When the refrigerant is forced through the throttle, its pressure is reduced, causing the
liquid to expand).

Evaporation:

The low pressure, low temperature Refrigerant enters the evaporator, which is in
contact with the cold Reservoir. Because a low pressure is maintained, the refrigerator is
able to boil at low temperature, so the liquid absorbs the heat from the cold reservoir &
evaporates. The Refrigerant leaves the evaporator at a low temperature, low pressure
gas and it takes into the compressor again and back at the beginning of the Cycle.

Prepared by: Afsar Zaidi (Lab Engineer) Vetted by : M Umer Sohail (Faculty Member)

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