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Performance evaluations of refrigeration systems with air‐cooled, water‐cooled and evaporative condensers
Author(s) -
Hosoz M.,
Kilicarslan A.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.990
Subject(s) - condenser (optics) , refrigeration , evaporative cooler , cooling capacity , vapor compression refrigeration , nuclear engineering , environmental science , thermodynamics , refrigerant , engineering , mechanical engineering , heat exchanger , physics , light source , optics
This paper compares the performance characteristics of refrigeration systems employing three types of condensers, namely the air‐cooled, the water‐cooled and the evaporative condensers. Experimental studies were conducted in the same vapour‐compression refrigeration unit operating with a different condenser in each test. It was found that the system with water‐cooled condenser had a higher refrigeration capacity by 2.9–14.4%, and a higher COP by 1.5–10.2% than the one with evaporative condenser. However, the refrigeration capacity and COP of the unit with evaporative condenser were higher than those of the one with air‐cooled condenser by 31.0 and 14.3%, respectively. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.