Capacity and efficiency of any refrigerating system diminish rapidly as the difference between the evaporating and condensing temperature is increased by a reduction in the evaporator temperature. The single stage vapour compression refrigeration system using various refrigerants are limited to an evaporator temperature of -40 0C. Below temperature of -40 0C the either cascade refrigeration sys...

This paper describes thermal modeling of Vapor Compression Refrigeration System using R134a in primary circuit and AL2O3-Water based nanofluids in secondary circuit. The model uses information of the secondary fluids input conditions geometric characteristics of the system, size of nanoparticles and the compressor speed to predict the secondary fluids output temperatures, the operating pressure...

Exploitation of solar energy for achieving low temperature is an active area of research at present owing to the concern over suitable alternatives to synthetic refrigerants and large electricity consumption by conventional vapour compression systems. Present work theoretically design and analyze the performance of a solar flat-plate collector-driven water-Lithium bromide absorption refrigerati...

This paper describes an approach for control of an economiser cycle based on the use of economiser pressure as the primary control parameter. In the study, the economiser cycle was used to optimise a multi-temperature indirect (IDX) transport refrigeration system, where hydronic secondary loops were utilised. In transport refrigeration applications, IDX systems can offer the potential to addres...

Achieving high performance in complex industrial systems requires information manipulation at different system levels. The paper shows how different models of same subsystems, but using different quality of information/data, are used for fault diagnosis as well as robust control design in industrial refrigeration systems.

Modeling and analysis work was done on various supermarket refrigeration systems for their energy efficiency, TEWI (Total Equivalent Warming Impact), and annual operating cost. The systems which were modeled in detail include parallel racks, distributed, self-contained, glycol secondary loop, and CO2 secondary loop (medium temperature) and cascade (low temperature). Based on R404A modeling resu...