Abstract
Investigation of thermal energy loss in cyclic operation of refrigeration cycle in a refrigerator-freezer were made. The energy loss was found to consist of three parts ; hot gas-refrigerant entering loss, cooling lag loss, and evaporator superheat loss. Hot gas-refrigerant entering loss is occured when high temperature gaseous refrigerant in a condenser flows into an evaporator to heat up the refrigerant in it. Main results are as follows ; 1) Hot gas-refrigerant entering loss, which was the most dominant, was found to be from 7.6 to 12.3% (for reciprocationg compressor) and from 11.9 to 17.4% (for rotary compressor) of the cooling load, respectively. 2) The thermal energy loss was confirmed to be able to be reduced when hot gas-refrigerant was restricted to flow in the evaporator with control valves. It follows to reduce electrical power consumption by 10 and 15%, in the case of reciprocating compressor and of rotary compressor, respectively. 3) Cycle frequency was made to be optimized theoretically and experimentally in the case of with and without valves.
