Experimental investigation on R134a airborne vapor-compression refrigeration system

Yunxiang Li, Quan Pan, Juan Liu

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Abstract

The airborne high power electrical equipments have been widely used in modern aircrafts, which consequently causes the dramatic increase of heating load up to dozens of kilowatts. Accordingly, vapor-compression refrigeration system (VCRS) with lower engine bleed air and larger refrigeration capacity has been paid much attention in recent years. Therefore, based on the analysis of the characteristics of VCRS, an experiment system of VCRS using R134a is set up to simulate operation performances. The influences of different parameters including evaporation pressure, condensing pressure, refrigerant mass flow rate and compressor rotation speed are also investigated. The impacts of different parameters on the system performance are various. This work can help to establish the specific control law under different work conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)46-52
Number of pages7
JournalTransactions of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Volume30
Issue number1
StatePublished - Mar 2013

Keywords

  • Experimental investigation
  • Fighter plane
  • R134a
  • Vapor-compression refrigeration system

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