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Water cooled ice makers are often the most inefficient in water
use, although sometimes providing significant energy savings at
the point of use. It is important to note that there are many aircooled ice machines more energy efficient than some watercooled ice machines. Water cooled machines generally use
potable water to remove heat from the refrigeration equipment.
In years past, most of these machines used single-pass cooling
dumping the water into the sewer as it exited the
machine. Fortunately, many manufacturers are started to
abandon this wasteful design. Some newer designs re-circulate
the water after it passes through a cooling tower or heat
exchanger, but these still require large amounts of make up
water. While air-cooled machines generally have a water
efficiency of 40% to 66%, water cooled machines are usually less
than 15% water efficient.
Problem Statement:
Nickel- or tin-plated copper is most commonly used for the ice
forming pockets in cube ice machines today. Such pockets may be
formed by fitting notched strips of copper together in an "egg
crate" relationship to form a grid of four sided pockets. The strips
are then soldered to a backing pan. At the same time a serpentine
piece of copper tubing (forming the evaporator section of the
refrigeration system) can be soldered to the back of the pan. The
Compression
Condensation
Expansion
Vaporization
COMPRESSORS
Intoduction :
A refrigerator compressor is the center of the
refrigerator cycle . Compressor may be called as a heart of any
vapour compression system . It works as a pump to control the
circulation of the refrigerant, and it adds pressure to the
refrigerant, heating it up . The compressor also draws vapour
away from the evaporator to maintain a lower pressure and lower
temperature before sending it to the condenser.
CLASSIFICATION OF COMPRESSORS :
According to the method of compression :
Reciprocating compressors
Rotary compressors
Centrifugal compressors
HERMATICALLY SEALED :
A small hermatically sealed compressor in a common consumer
refrigerator or freezer; it typically has a rounded steel outer shell
Compressor Lubrication
In order to lubricate the moving parts
of the compressor, an oil is added to the refrigerant during
installation or commissioning. The type of oil may be mineral or
synthetic to suit the compressor type, and also chosen so as not
to react with the refrigerant type and other components in the
system. In small refrigeration systems the oil is allowed to
APPLICATION:
Refrigerators
Deep freezer
Water cooler
Bottle coolers
Room air conditioners
CONDENSOR
Introductions :
Classification of condensers:
Condensers may be classified on the following basis:
On the basis of cooling medium used:
(a) Air cooled condenser
(b) Water cooled condenser
(c) Evaporative condenser
On the basis of construction:
(a) Shell type condenser
(b) Shell and coil condenser
(c) Double pipe condenser
(d) Finned condenser
Purpose of a Condenser:
The purpose of a condenser in the cycle of compression
refrigeration is to change the hot gas being discharged from the
compressor to a liquid prepared for use in the evaporator. The
condenser accomplishes this action by the removal of sufficient
heat from the hot gas, to ensure its condensation at the pressure
available in the condenser. The heat is shifted to another medium,
like water or air, to cool the condenser.
EXPANSION DEVICES
Introduction:
An expansion device is another basic component of a
refrigeration system. The basic functions of an expansion device
used in refrigeration system are to:
1. Reduce pressure from condenser pressure to evaporator
pressure, and
2. Regulate the refrigerant flow from the high-pressure liquid
line into the evaporator at a rate equal to the evaporation
rate In the evaporator.
The expansion devices used in rerfrigeration system
can be divided into fixed opening type or variable opening
type. As the name implies, in fixed opening type in the flow
area changes with changing mass flow rates. There are
basically seven types of refrigerant expansion devices.
These are:
1. Hand (manual) expansion valves
2. Capillary Tubes
3. Orifice
4. Constant pressure or Automatic Expansion Valve (AEV)
5. Thermostatic Expansion Valve
6. Float type Expansion Valve
a) High Side Float Valve
b) Low Side Float Valve
7. Electronic Expansion Valve
Capillary Tube:
A capillry tube is long narrow tube of constant diameter. The word
capillry is a misnomer since surface tension is not important in
refrigeration application of capillary tubes. Typical tube diameters
of refrigerab=nt capillary tubes range from 0.5mm to 3 mm and
the length ranges from 1.0m to 6m. The pressure reduction in
capillary tube occurs due to the following two factors:
1. The refrigerant has to overcome the frictinal resistance
offered by the walls. This leads to some pressure drop, and
2. The liquid refrigerant flashes (evaporates) into mixture of
liquid and vapours its pressure reduces. The density of
vapour is less than that of the liquid. Hence, the average
density of refrigerant decreases as it flows in the tube. The
mass flow rate and the tube diameter (hence area) being
constant, the velocity of refrigerant increases since. The
increse in velocity or acceleration of the refrigerant also
requires pressure drop. Several combinations of length and
bore are available for the same mass flow rate and pressure
drop. However, once a capillary tube of some diameter and
length has been installed in a refrigeratin system, the mass
flow rate through it will vary in such a manner that the total
pressure drop through it matches with the pressure
difference between condenser and the evaporator. Its mass
flow rate is totally dependent upon the pressure difference
across it; it cannot adjust itself to variation of load
effectively.
EVAPORATORS
Introductions:
An evaporators, like condenser is also a heat exchanger. In an
evaporator, the refrigerant boils or evaporates and in doing so
absorb heat from the substance being refrigerated. The name
evaporator refers to the evaporation process occuring in the heat
exchanger.
REFRIGERANTS
A refrigerants is a substance used in heat cycle usually including,
for enhanced efficiency, a reversible phase change from a liquid
to a gas.Traditionally, fluorocarbons, especially
chlorofluorocarbons, were used as refrigerants, but they are being
phased out because of their ozone depletion effects. Other
common refrigerants used in various applications are ammonia,
sulphur dioxide, and non- halogenated hydrocarbons such as
methane.
Introductions:
The thermodynamic efficiency of a refrigeration system depends
mainly on its operating temperatures. However, important
practical issues such as the system design, size, initial and
operating costs, safety, reliability, and servicebility etc. depend
very much on the type of refrigerant selected for a given
application. Due to several envirnment issues such as ozone layer
depletion and global warming and their relation to the various
refrigerants used, the selection of suitable refrigerant by a
completely new refrigerant, for whatever reason, is an expensive
proposition as it may call for several changes in the design and
manufacturing of refrigeration system. Hence it is very important
Physical properties:
The ideal refrigerant has a favorable thermodynamic properties, is
unrective chemically, and is safe. The desired thermodynamic
properties are boiling point somewhat below the target
temperature, a high heat of vaporization, a moderate density in
liquid form, a relatively high density in gaseous form, and a high
critical temperature. Since boiling point and gas density are
affected by pressure, refrigerants may be made more suitable for
a particular application by choice of operating pressure. These
properties are ideally met by the chlorofluorocarbons, but
environmental science regards stability as being an undesirable
property of a refrigerant, leading to recommendations such as
Supercritical carbon dioxide as a possible future cooling agent for
use in vehicles.
Corrosion properties are a matter of materials compatibility with
the mechanical components: compressor, piping, evaporator, and
condenser. Safety considerations include toxicity and
flammability.
Refrigerant R-134a:
INSULATION
Purpose of Insulation:
A thermal insulator is a poor conductor of heat and has a low
conductivity. Insulation is used in buildings and in manufacturing
processes to prevent heat loss or heat gain. Although its primary
purpose is an economic one, it also provides more accurate
control of process temperatures and protection of personnel. It
prevents condensation on cold surfaces and the resulting
corrosion. Such materials are porous, containing large number of
dormant air cells. Thermal insulation delivers the following
benefits:
Reduces over-all energy consumption.
Offers better process control by maintaining process
temperature.
Insulation material:
Insulation materials can also be classified into organic and
inorganic types.
Inorganic insulation is based on Siliceous/Aluminous/Calcium
materials in fiberous, granular or powder forms. Example: Mineral
wool, Calcium silicate etc.
Organic insulations are based on the hyocarbon polymers, which
can be expanded to obtain hogh void structures. Example
Thermocol (Expanded Polystyrene) and Poly Urethane Foam (PUF).
Puf stands for poly Urethene Foam. Polyurethane (PUF) is used
extensively in applications of lower temperatures.
BRAZING
Fundamentals:
In order to obtain high-quality brazed joints, parts must be closely
fitted, and the base metals must be exceptionally clean and free
of oxides. In most cases, joint clearances of 0.03 to 0.08 mm
(0.0012 to 0.0031 in) are recommended for the best capillary
action and joint strength. However, in some brazing operations it
is not uncommon to have joint clearances around 0.6 mm
(0.024 in). Cleanliness of the brazing surfaces is also important,
as any contamination can cause poor wetting (flow). The two
main methods for cleaning parts, prior to brazing, are chemical
cleaning and abrasive or mechanical cleaning. In the case of
mechanical cleaning, it is important to maintain the proper
surface roughness as wetting on a rough surface occurs much
more readily than on a smooth surface of the same geometry.
Another consideration that cannot be overlooked is the effect of
temperature and time on the quality of brazed joints. As the
Torch brazing
ELECTRIC MOTOR
An electric motor is an electromechanical device that converts
electrical energy to mechanical energy.
Rotor
In an electric motor the moving part is the rotor which turns the
shaft to deliver the mechanical power. The rotor usually has
conductors laid into it which carry currents that interact with the
magnetic field of the stator to generate the forces that turn the
shaft. However, some rotors carry permanent magnets, and the
stator holds the conductors.
Stator
The stationary part is the stator, usually has either windings or
permanent magnets. The stator is the stationary part of the
motors electromagnetic circuit. The stator core is made up of
many thin metal sheets, called laminations. Laminations are used
Air gap
In between the rotor and stator is the air gap. The air gap has
important effects, and is generally as small as possible, as a large
gap has a strong negative effect on the performance of an electric
motor.
Windings
Windings are wires that are laid in coils, usually wrapped around a
laminated soft iron magnetic core so as to form magnetic poles
when energized with current.
Electric machines come in two basic magnet field pole
configurations: salient-pole machine and nonsalient-pole machine.
In the salient-pole machine the pole's magnetic field is produced
by a winding wound around the pole below the pole face. In
the nonsalient-pole, or distributed field, or round-rotor, machine,
the winding is distributed in pole face slots. A shaded-pole
motor has a winding around part of the pole that delays the phase
of the magnetic field for that pole.
Some motors have conductors which consist of thicker metal,
such as bars or sheets of metal, usually copper, although
sometimes aluminum is used. These are usually powered
by electromagnetic induction.
Commutator
A commutator is a mechanism used to switch the input of most
DC machines and certain AC machines consisting of slip ring
segments insulated from each other and from the electric motor's
shaft. The motor's armature current is supplied through the
stationary brushes in contact with the revolving commutator,
WELDING
CORE WIRE
A wire is a single, usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of
metal. Wires are used to bear mechanical loads or electricity and
telecommunications signals. Wire is commonly formed
by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate. Wire
gauges come in various standard sizes, as expressed in terms of
a gauge number. The term wire is also used more loosely to refer
to a bundle of such strands, as in 'multistranded wire', which is
more correctly termed a wire rope in mechanics, or a cable in
electricity.
Wire comes in solid core, stranded, or braided forms. Although
usually circular in cross-section, wire can be made in square,
hexagonal, flattened rectangular, or other cross-sections, either
for decorative purposes, or for technical purposes such as high-
Uses:
Wire has many uses. It forms the raw material of many
important manufacturers, such as the wire netting industry,
engineered springs, wire-cloth making and wire rope spinning, in
which it occupies a place analogous to a textile fiber. Wire-cloth of
all degrees of strength and fineness of mesh is used for sifting
and screening machinery, for draining paper pulp, for window
screens, and for many other purposes. Vast quantities
of aluminium, copper, nickel and steel wire are employed for
telephone and data cables, and as conductors in electric power
transmission, and heating. It is in no less demand for fencing, and
much is consumed in the construction of suspension bridges, and
cages, etc. In the manufacture of stringed musical instruments
and scientific instruments wire is again largely used. Carbon and
stainless spring steel wire have significant applications for
engineered springs for critical automotive or industrial
manufactured parts/components. Among its other sources of
consumption it is sufficient to mention pin and hairpin making,
the needle and fish-hook industries, nail, peg and rivet making,
and carding machinery; indeed there are few industries into which
it does not enter.
Not all metals and metallic alloys possess the physical properties
necessary to make useful wire. The metals must in the first place
be ductile and strong in tension, the quality on which the utility of
wire principally depends. The metals suitable for wire, possessing
almost equal ductility, are platinum, silver, iron, copper,
aluminium and gold; and it is only from these and certain of
their alloys with other metals, principally brass and bronze, that
wire is prepared (For a detailed discussion on copper wire, see
main article: Copper wire and cable.).
INNOVATIONS:
WORKING PRINCIPLE:
In this system, the metal ice tray is connected to a set of coiled heat-exchanging pipes like the ones on
the back of your refrigerator. If you've read How Refrigerators Work, then you know how these pipes
work. A compressor drives a stream of refrigerant fluid in a continuous cycle of condensation and
expansion. Basically, the compressor forces refrigerant through a narrow tube (called the condenser) to
condense it, and then releases it into a wider tube (called the evaporator), where it can expand.
Compressing the refrigerant raises its pressure, which increases its temperature. As the refrigerant
passes through the narrow condenser coils, it loses heat to the cooler air outside, and it condenses into
a liquid. When the compressed fluid passes through the expansion valve, it evaporates -- it expands to
become a gas. This evaporation process draws in heat energy from the metal pipes and the air around
the refrigerant. This cools the pipes and the attached metal ice tray.
The icemaker has a water pump, which draws water from a collection sump and pours it over the chilled
ice tray. As the water flows over the tray, it gradually freezes, building up ice cubes in the well of the tray.
When you freeze water layer by layer this way, it forms clear ice. When you freeze it all at once, as in the
home icemaker, you get cloudy ice .
After a set amount of time, the icemaker triggers a solenoid valve connected to the heat-exchanging
coils. Switching this valve changes the path of the refrigerant. The compressor stops forcing the heated
gas from the compressor into the narrow condenser; instead, it forces the gas into a wide bypass tube.
The hot gas is cycled back to the evaporator without condensing. When you force this hot gas through the
evaporator pipes, the pipes and the ice tray heat up rapidly, which loosens the ice cubes.
Typically, the individual cube cavities are slanted so the loosened ice will slide out on their own, into a
collection bin below. Some systems have a cylinder piston that gives the tray a little shove, knocking the
cubes loose.
This sort of system is popular in restaurants and hotels because it makes ice cubes with a standard
shape and size. Other businesses, such as grocery stores and scientific research firms, need smaller ice
flakesfor packing perishable items