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    Introduction To VARS: Vapor Absorption Refrigeration Cycle

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    Introduction To VARS: Vapor Absorption Refrigeration Cycle

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    Development of a 500W air conditioner which operates on absorption cycle Since 500W is small scale when it comes to VAC’s, it’s feasibility too is a milestone we would reach

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    Development of a 500W air conditioner which operates on absorption cycle Since 500W is small scale when it comes to VAC’s, it’s feasibility too is a milestone we would reach

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    Introduction To VARS: Vapor Absorption Refrigeration Cycle

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    ImtiazAliShaukat
    Development of a 500W air conditioner which operates on absorption cycle Since 500W is small scale when it comes to VAC’s, it’s feasibility too is a milestone we would reach

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    Introduction to VARS

    Vapor absorption refrigeration


    cycle
    Our Project
    Development of a 500W air
    conditioner which operates on
    absorption cycle
    Since 500W is small scale when it
    comes to VACs, its feasibility too is
    a milestone we would reach
    For the feasibility
    development
    Market surveys were done with the
    help of Mohammad Furqan (a former
    design engineer at Nespak and
    currently the director at his own
    company DEMS Private limited)
    The findings
    HXs types and related issues

    The two main types of HXs are


    Tube bundle heat exchangers
    Plate type heat exchangers
    Conclusions
    Plate type heat exchanger was found to
    be preferable due to the following two
    reasons:

    Tube type HX was found to be used for humungous


    applications which, be default, ruled out the 500W-
    1KW range we would be working on
    Its small scale usage has not been researched much
    so it would have been an endeavor in itself i.e.
    studying and/or developing its feasibility for our
    project
    Other compelling reasons for
    ruling tube type HX out
    To make the tube bundle heat exchangers pressure tight, each
    tube has to be mated thoroughly into the tube sheets holding the
    tubes, which requires a labor intensive manufacturing step
    (absorption chillers perform at pressure below ambient and hence
    air may seep in which decreases the efficiency).
    The tube sheets have to be rather thick to withstand the prevailing
    pressure difference, this is not a issue with the bigger scale
    applications but is in ours.

    In short, every forced attempt to utilize tube type HX was proving


    to be costly and we stopped further digging after the first few
    compelling reasons to rule it out were found.
    Design parameters to get it
    going
    Mainly, we have to further investigate into the
    different types of plate type HXs
    gasketed plate heat exchangers
    brazed plate heat exchangers

    A brief investigation revealed that brazed plate


    heat exchangers have a good pressure and
    vacuum tightness. Therefore, they can be used in
    air conditioning applications, where the operating
    pressure usually differs considerably from the
    ambient.
    The fabrication
    The fabrication would mainly comprise of a plate
    type heat exchanger and whatever improvising
    it would require for this particular project.

    A future plan to replace the input at generator


    with solar energy (solar cell use) or, more
    preferably, thermal energy (which we plan to harvest
    with the use of huge convex lenses converging sun rays and
    hence focused on the particular area where the solution
    takes in heat from otherwise costly substitutes ).

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