RESULTS AND SAMPLE OF CALCULATION

Experiment 1: Determination of power input, heat output and coefficient of performance.

1st reading 2nd reading 3rd reading Average reading

Cooling water Flow 40 40 40 40.00

rate, FT1 (%)

Cooling water inlet 27.4 27.4 27.4 27.40

temperature, TT5 (°C)

Cooling water outlet 28.3 28.3 28.4 28.33

temperature, TT6 (°C)

Compressor Power 160 159 160 159.67

Input

𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 (%)

𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 (𝐿𝑃𝑀) = × 5 𝐿𝑃𝑀
100 %
40 %
= × 5𝐿𝑃𝑀
100 %

= 2 𝐿𝑃𝑀
Heat output

𝑚𝐿 1𝑔 1 𝑘𝑔 1 𝑚𝑖𝑛 𝑘𝑔
2000 × × × = 0.0333
𝑚𝑖𝑛 1 𝑚𝐿 1000 𝑔 60 𝑠 𝑠

𝑇(𝐾) = 𝑇 (°𝐶) + 273.15

𝑘𝐽
𝐶𝑝@25°𝐶 − 50°𝐶 = 4.18
𝑘𝑔. 𝐾

𝑄 = 𝑚𝐶𝑝𝑑𝑇
𝐽
= 0.0333 𝑘𝑔 (4180 ) (28.33 − 27.40) 𝐾
𝑘𝑔. 𝐾
= 129.45 𝑊
Coefficient of performance

𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑄𝐿
𝐶𝑂𝑃ʀ = =
𝑅𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑊𝑛𝑒𝑡,𝑖𝑛
129.45
=
159.67
= 0.8107
Experiment 2: Production of heat pump performance curve over a range of source and delivery
temperature

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Cooling water Flow rate, FT1 60 40 20

(%)

Cooling water Flow rate, FT1 3 2 1

(LPM)

Cooling water inlet 27.4 27.9 28.0

temperature, TT5 (°C)

Cooling water outlet 28.5 29.2 30.11

temperature, TT6 (°C)

Compressor Power Input (W) 156 156 157

Heat Output (W) 153.11 180.95 293.69

COPʀ 0.98 1.16 1.87

*The calculations are similar to experiment 1

 Power input vs temperature

157

156.8

156.6
Power imput (W)

156.4

156.2

156

155.8

155.6

155.4
28.5 29.2 30.11
Temperature (°C)

Heat output vs temperature

350

300

250
Heat output (W)

200

150

100

50

0
28.5 29.2 30.11
Temperature (°C)
 COP vs temperature
2

1.8

1.6

1.4

1.2
COP

0.8

0.6

0.4

0.2

0
28.5 29.2 30.11
Temperature (°C)
Experiment 3: Production of vapor compression cycle on p-h diagram and energy balance study.

Refrigerant Flow Rate, FT2 (%) 61.6

Refrigerant Flow Rate, FT2 (LPM) 3.08

Refrigerant pressure (Low), P1 (Bar(abs)) 1.9

Refrigerant pressure (High), P2 (Bar(abs)) 6.7

Refrigerant temperature, TT1 (°C) 24.4

Refrigerant temperature, TT2 (°C) 75.4

Refrigerant temperature, TT3 (°C) 26.7

Refrigerant temperature, TT4 (°C) 22.9

Cooling water flow rate, FT1 (%) 40.3

Cooling water flow rate, FT1 (LPM) 2.015

Cooling water inlet temperature, TT5 (°C) 28.1

Cooling water inlet temperature, TT6 (°C) 26.6

Compressor power input (W) 157

 Point 1 2 3 4

Pressure (bar) 1.9 6.7 6.7 1.9

Temperature (°C) 24.4 75.4 26.7 22.9

Enthalpy (kJ/kg) 274.21 314.49 265.79 276.21

*All of the entalphy was obtained from property table of R-134a (interpolation).

𝑃2 − 𝑃1 𝑇2 − 𝑇1
=
𝑃3 − 𝑃1 𝑇3 − 𝑇1
Experiment 4: Estimation of the effect of compress or pressure ratio on volumetric efficiency.

Refrigerant flow rate, FT2 (%) 61.7

Refrigerant flow rate, FT2 (LPM) 0.77

Refrigerant pressure (Low), P1 (bar(abs)) 1.9

Refrigerant pressure (High), P2 (bar(abs)) 6.6

Refrigerant temperature, TT1 24.4

𝑆𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑃1

𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜 = =
𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑃2
1.9
=
6.6
= 0.288

𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒

𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 =
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒