Abstract
The present paper treats a possibility of performance improvement and its evaluation method for a heat pump cycle of non-azeotropic refrigerant mixtures. Calculation is made for R22 + R114 and R22 + R11 mixtures under the conditions that the inlet temperature and flow rates of heat source fluids through a condenser and an evaporator of counter flow type, heat pump thermal output and FK-value (heat transfer area times average overall heat transfer coefficient) are given. It is graphically shown that the coefficient of performance (COP)h, pressures and volumetric flow rates at suction and discharge ports of a compressor depend on the FK-value and on the flow rate of heat source fluid as well as mixture composition. The characteristics of the heat pump cycle thus obtained are markedly different from those, in which the state points of the refrigerant mixture are fixed.
