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This document contains 7 questions from an assignment on heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). The questions involve computing performance metrics like power requirement, volumetric and compression efficiencies for refrigeration systems using refrigerants R-22 and R-134a. They also involve calculating heat transfer coefficients, condenser area and tube length for condensers using data on refrigerant type, temperatures, tube dimensions and number of tubes. Questions also involve identifying the appropriate variable to plot on the x-axis for Wilson plots for different types of condensers.

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This document contains 7 questions from an assignment on heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC). The questions involve computing performance metrics like power requirement, volumetric and compression efficiencies for refrigeration systems using refrigerants R-22 and R-134a. They also involve calculating heat transfer coefficients, condenser area and tube length for condensers using data on refrigerant type, temperatures, tube dimensions and number of tubes. Questions also involve identifying the appropriate variable to plot on the x-axis for Wilson plots for different types of condensers.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

National University of Technology


ME 4109 –Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
Assignment 02
Submission Deadline: 23-12-2022 Total Marks: 35
[CLO-2, C-3, PLO-2]
Q.1. A refrigerant 22 compressor with a displacement rate of 60 L/s operates in a refrigeration system that
maintains a constant condensing temperature of 30°C. Compute and plot the power requirement of this
compressor at evaporating temperatures of -20, -10, 0, 10, and 20°C. Use the actual volumetric efficiencies
from Fig. 11-12 and the following isentropic works of compression for the five evaporating temperatures,
respectively, 39.9, 30.2, 21.5, 13.7, and 6.5 kJ/kg.

Q.2. The catalog for a refrigerant 22, four-cylinder, hermetic compressor operating at 29 r/s, a condensing
temperature of 40°C, and an evaporating temperature of -4°C shows a refrigerating capacity of 115 kW. At
this operating point the motor (whose efficiency is 90 percent) draws 34.5 kW. The bore of the cylinders is 87
mm and the piston stroke is 70 mm. The performance data are based on 8°C of subcooling of the liquid leaving
the condenser. Compute

a) Actual volumetric efficiency


b) Compression efficiency.

Q.3. A two stage centrifugal compressor operating at 3000 rpm is to compress refrigerant R-134a from an
evaporator temperature of 0 oC to a condensing temperature of 32 oC. If the impeller diameters of both stages
have to be same, what is the diameter of the impeller? Assume the suction condition to be dry saturated,
compression process to be isentropic, the impeller blades to be radial and refrigerant enters the impeller
axially.

Q.4. The condensing area is to be specified for a refrigerant R-134a condenser of a refrigerating system that
provides a capacity of 10TR for air conditioning. The evaporating temperature is 4°C, and the condensing
temperature is 42°C at design conditions. Water from a cooling tower enters the condenser at 30°C and leaves
at 35°C. A two-pass condenser with 52 tubes, arranged in 13 columns, will be used, and the length of tubes is
to be specified to provide the necessary area. The tubes are copper and are 10 mm ID and 12 mm OD.

Q.5. A refrigerant R-22 condenser has four water passes and a total of 60 copper tubes that are 14 mm ID and
have 2 mm wall thickness. The conductivity of copper is 390 W/m.K. The outside of the tubes is finned so
that the ratio of outside to inside area is 1.7. The cooling-water flow through the condenser tubes is 3.8 L/s.

a) Calculate the water-side coefficient if the water is at an average temperature of 30°C, at which
temperature k = 0.614 W/m.K, ρ = 996 kg/m3, and μ= 0.000803 Pa.s.
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b) Using a mean condensing coefficient of 1420 W/m2.K, calculate the overall heat-transfer coefficient
based on the condensing area.

Q.6. Calculate the mean condensing heat-transfer coefficient when refrigerant R-12 condenses on the outside
of the horizontal tubes in a shell-and-tube condenser. The outside diameter of the tubes is 19 mm, and in the
vertical rows of tubes there are, respectively, two, three, four, three, and two tubes. The refrigerant is
condensing at a temperature of 52°C, and the temperature of the tubes is 44°C.

Q.7.

i. A Wilson plot is to be constructed for a finned air-cooled condenser by varying the rate of airflow.
What should the abscissa of the plot be?
ii. A Wilson plot is to be constructed for a shell-and-tube water chiller in which refrigerant evaporates in
the tubes. The rate of water flow is to be varied for the Wilson plot. What should the abscissa of the
plot be?

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