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NG1S229 Tutorial 6

This document contains 5 problems related to refrigerators, heat pumps, and heat engines. Problem 1 calculates the cooling rate of a refrigerator operating between 250K and 300K with a 10kW compressor to be 50kW. Problem 2 determines the minimum power input required for a refrigerator maintaining -8°C while removing heat at 300kJ/min is 1.623kW. Problem 3 asks if a 5kW heat pump is powerful enough to maintain a house at 22°C while extracting 110,000kJ/h of heat from outside air at 2°C.

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NG1S229 Tutorial 6

This document contains 5 problems related to refrigerators, heat pumps, and heat engines. Problem 1 calculates the cooling rate of a refrigerator operating between 250K and 300K with a 10kW compressor to be 50kW. Problem 2 determines the minimum power input required for a refrigerator maintaining -8°C while removing heat at 300kJ/min is 1.623kW. Problem 3 asks if a 5kW heat pump is powerful enough to maintain a house at 22°C while extracting 110,000kJ/h of heat from outside air at 2°C.

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NG1S229 Tutorial 6

1. A completely reversible refrigerator is driven by a 10-kW compressor and


operates with thermal energy reservoirs at 250 K and 300 K. Calculate the
rate of cooling provided by this refrigerator.
(50 kW)
2. A refrigerator is to remove heat from the cooled space at a rate of 300
kJ/min to maintain its temperature at -8C. If the air surrounding the
refrigerator is at 25C, determine the minimum power input required for
this refrigerator.
(1.623
kW)

3. A heat pump is used to maintain a house at 22C by extracting heat from


the outside air on a day when the outside air temperature is 2C. The
house is estimated to lose heat at a rate of 110,000 kJ/h, and the heat
pump consumes 5 kW of electric power when running. Is this heat pump
powerful enough to do the job?
4. A Carnot heat engine receives heat at 750 K and rejects the waste heat to
the environment at 300 K. The entire work output of the heat engine is
used to drive a Carnot refrigerator that removes heat from the cooled
space at -15C at a rate of 400 kJ/min and rejects it to the same
environment at 300 K. Determine (a) the rate of heat supplied to the heat
engine and (b) the total rate of heat rejection to the environment.
(108.5 kJ/min, 508.5 kJ/min)
5. A heat pump with a COP of 2.4 is used to heat a house. When running, the
heat pump consumes 8 kW of electric power. If the house is losing heat to
the outside at an average rate of 40,000 kJ/h and the temperature of the
house is 3C when the heat pump is turned on, determine how long it will
take for the temperature in the house to rise to 22C. Assume the house is
well sealed (i.e., no air leaks) and take the entire mass within the house
(air, furniture, etc.) to be equivalent to 2000 kg of air. The constant
volume specific heat of air at room temperature is cv = 0.718 kJ/kg.C
(0.937 h)

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