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Performance improvement of air-cooled refrigeration system by using evaporatively cooled air condenser.

Author(s) : HAJIDAVALLOO E., EGHTEDARI H.

Type of article: Article, IJR article

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Increasing the coefficient of performance of an air conditioner with an air-cooled condenser is a challenging problem especially in area with very hot weather conditions. The application of evaporatively cooled air condenser instead of air-cooled condenser is proposed in this paper as an efficient way to solve the problem. An evaporative cooler was built and coupled to the existing air-cooled condenser of a split-air-conditioner in order to measure its effect on the cycle performance under various ambient air temperatures up to 49°C. Experimental results show that application of evaporatively cooled air condenser has significant effect on the performance improvement of the cycle and the rate of improvement is increased as ambient air temperature increases. It is also found that by using evaporatively cooled air condenser in hot weather conditions, the power consumption can be reduced up to 20% and the coefficient of performance can be improved around 50%. More improvements can be expected if a more efficient evaporative cooler is used.

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Pages: pp. 982-988

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  • Original title: Performance improvement of air-cooled refrigeration system by using evaporatively cooled air condenser.
  • Record ID : 2010-0876
  • Languages: English
  • Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 33 - n. 5
  • Publication date: 2010/08

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