NOTE: This is a multi-part question. Once an answer is submitted, you will be unable to return to this part. Consider a two-stage cascade refrigeration cycle with a flash chamber as shown in the figure with refrigerant-134a as the working fluid. The evaporator temperature is -10°C and the condenser pressure is 1600 kPa. The refrigerant leaves the condenser as a saturated liquid and is throttled to a flash chamber operating at 0.45 MPa. Part of the refrigerant evaporates during this flashing process, and this vapor is mixed with the refrigerant leaving the low-pressure compressor. The mixture is then compressed to the condenser pressure by the high-pressure compressor. The liquid in the flash chamber is throttled to the evaporator pressure and cools the refrigerated space as it vaporizes in the evaporator. The mass flow rate of the refrigerant through the low-pressure compressor is 0.11 kg/s. Assume that the refrigerant leaves the evaporator as a saturated vapor and the isentropic efficiency is 86 percent for both compressors. (Take the required values from saturated refrigerant-134a tables.)

NOTE: This is a multi-part question. Once an answer is submitted, you will be unable to return to this part. Consider a two-stage cascade refrigeration cycle with a flash chamber as shown in the figure with refrigerant-134a as the working fluid. The evaporator temperature is -10°C and the condenser pressure is 1600 kPa. The refrigerant leaves the condenser as a saturated liquid and is throttled to a flash chamber operating at 0.45 MPa. Part of the refrigerant evaporates during this flashing process, and this vapor is mixed with the refrigerant leaving the low-pressure compressor. The mixture is then compressed to the condenser pressure by the high-pressure compressor. The liquid in the flash chamber is throttled to the evaporator pressure and cools the refrigerated space as it vaporizes in the evaporator. The mass flow rate of the refrigerant through the low-pressure compressor is 0.11 kg/s. Assume that the refrigerant leaves the evaporator as a saturated vapor and the isentropic efficiency is 86 percent for both compressors. (Take the required values from saturated refrigerant-134a tables.)

Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology (MindTap Course List)

8th Edition

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Author:John Tomczyk, Eugene Silberstein, Bill Whitman, Bill Johnson

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Chapter22: Condensers

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