What is Refrigeration System?

 What is Refrigeration System?

    Refrigeration is a process of moving heat from one place to another by the use of Refrigerant in a closed cycle. Oil management, gas and liquid separation, subcooling, superheating, desuperheating, piping of refrigerant gas or liquid, and two phase flow are the parts of refrigeration system. The refrigeration system used widely in various types of ues like in air conditioning, industrial Air Conditioning, commercial Refrigeration and industrial Refrigeration. This blog focuses on the system that uses halocarbons( halogenated hydrocarbon) as a refrigerant. The most commonly used halogen refrigerant are chlorine(Cl) and fluorine(F).

      Halocarbons refrigerant are mainly classified in four groups 

1)chlorofluorocarbon(CFCs), which contains chlorine, fluorine, carbon.

2)Hydrochlorofluorocarbons(HCFCs) which consists of carbon, hydrogen, Fluorine, chlorine.

3)Hydrofluorocarbons(HFCs), which contains hydrogen, fluorine, carbon.

4) Hydrofluoroolefins(HFOs) which are HFC refrigerant derived from an alkene (Olefin, i.e., an unsaturated compound which is having atleast one carbon-to-carbon double compound)

   Desired characteristics of halocarbons refrigerant are include.

- Year round operation, regardless of outdoor ambient condition.

-Possible wide load variations( 0 to 100% capacity) during short periods without series disruption of the required temperature levels.

-Frost control for continuous performance application.

-Oil management for different refrigerant under the varying load and temperature.

- The wide choice of heat exchange method (i.e., dry expansion, liquid overfeed or flooded feed refrigerants) and use of secondary coolant such as a salt brine, alcohol, glycol and carbon dioxide

- System efficiency, maintainability and operating simplicity.

  The successful and efficient Refrigeration System depends on the piping design and the understanding of required accessories.