Abstract
This paper reports the demonstration experiment of a power and refrigeration hybrid cycle which employs ammonia-water mixture (AWM) as working fluid. The hybrid cycle is the cycle which an ammonia absorption refrigerator and the AWM turbine cycle are connected by several pipelines. To demonstrate the performance enhancement of the hybrid cycle, steady state characteristics are experimentally investigated. The authors especially focused on the COP, heat source steam consumption rate and heat of rectification when the ammonia mass fraction of rectifier inlet strong solution becomes higher. As a result, the COP and heat source steam consumption rate improved about 20%.
