Engineering

Nathaly Parks

25 September, 06:06

A heat pump with refrigerant-134a as the working fluid is used to keep a space at 25°C by absorbing heat from geothermal water that enters the evaporator at 500C at a rate of 0.065 kg/s and leaves at 40°C. The refrigerant enters the evaporator at 20°C with a quality of 23 percent and leaves at the inlet pressure as saturated vapor. The refrigerant loses 300 W of heat to the surroundings as it flows through the compressor and the refrigerant leaves the compressor at 1.4 MPa at the same entropy as the inlet. Determine: (a) The degrees of subcooling of the refrigerant in the condenser, b) - The mass flow rate of the refrigerant. (c) The heating load and the COP of the pump, and d) - The theoretical minimum power input to the compressor for the same heating load.