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Performance Analysis Of A Domestic Refrigerator

Refrigerator is one of the home appliance utilizing mechanical vapour compression cycle in it process. Performance of the system becomes main issue and many researches are still ongoing to evaluate and improve efficiency of the system. Therefore, this paper presents the development process of refrig...

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Main Authors: Mohd Yusof, Taib, Azizuddin, Abd Aziz
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2010
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TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/1593/1/59_NCMER_068.pdf
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spelling my.ump.umpir.15932018-01-19T07:28:47Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/1593/ Performance Analysis Of A Domestic Refrigerator Mohd Yusof, Taib Azizuddin, Abd Aziz TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Refrigerator is one of the home appliance utilizing mechanical vapour compression cycle in it process. Performance of the system becomes main issue and many researches are still ongoing to evaluate and improve efficiency of the system. Therefore, this paper presents the development process of refrigerator test rig and performance analysis of a domestic refrigerator. The experiment platform which called test rig was developed from refrigerator model NRB33TA National brand. The main objective in this study was to obtain performance of the refrigeration system in term of Refrigeration Capacity, Compressor work and Coefficient of Performance (COP) by determining three important parameters during in operating mode which are temperature, pressure and refrigerant flowrate. In the test rig, all temperature probes were connected to thermocouple scanner to measure temperature at particular points on the refrigeration system. Pressure gauges were used to measure pressure and a magnetic flowmeter was used to measure refrigerant flowrate. In order to avoid effects of a changing the measured data, the environmental of testing was controlled according to Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) standard. There are three sets of experiment data were collected in order to evaluate the refrigerator performance. Each data was collected for a cycle of operation for 2 hours. The result shows that the average COP of the refrigeration system using the refrigerator test rig was about 2.7. 2010 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/1593/1/59_NCMER_068.pdf Mohd Yusof, Taib and Azizuddin, Abd Aziz (2010) Performance Analysis Of A Domestic Refrigerator. In: National Conference in Mechanical Engineering Research and Postgraduate Students (1st NCMER 2010), 26-27 May 2010 , FKM Conference Hall, UMP, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. .
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Mohd Yusof, Taib
Azizuddin, Abd Aziz
Performance Analysis Of A Domestic Refrigerator
description Refrigerator is one of the home appliance utilizing mechanical vapour compression cycle in it process. Performance of the system becomes main issue and many researches are still ongoing to evaluate and improve efficiency of the system. Therefore, this paper presents the development process of refrigerator test rig and performance analysis of a domestic refrigerator. The experiment platform which called test rig was developed from refrigerator model NRB33TA National brand. The main objective in this study was to obtain performance of the refrigeration system in term of Refrigeration Capacity, Compressor work and Coefficient of Performance (COP) by determining three important parameters during in operating mode which are temperature, pressure and refrigerant flowrate. In the test rig, all temperature probes were connected to thermocouple scanner to measure temperature at particular points on the refrigeration system. Pressure gauges were used to measure pressure and a magnetic flowmeter was used to measure refrigerant flowrate. In order to avoid effects of a changing the measured data, the environmental of testing was controlled according to Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) standard. There are three sets of experiment data were collected in order to evaluate the refrigerator performance. Each data was collected for a cycle of operation for 2 hours. The result shows that the average COP of the refrigeration system using the refrigerator test rig was about 2.7.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mohd Yusof, Taib
Azizuddin, Abd Aziz
author_facet Mohd Yusof, Taib
Azizuddin, Abd Aziz
author_sort Mohd Yusof, Taib
title Performance Analysis Of A Domestic Refrigerator
title_short Performance Analysis Of A Domestic Refrigerator
title_full Performance Analysis Of A Domestic Refrigerator
title_fullStr Performance Analysis Of A Domestic Refrigerator
title_full_unstemmed Performance Analysis Of A Domestic Refrigerator
title_sort performance analysis of a domestic refrigerator
publishDate 2010
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/1593/1/59_NCMER_068.pdf
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