An air conditioner with refrigerant-134a as the working fluid is used to keep a room at 26°C

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An air conditioner with refrigerant-134a as the working fluid is used to keep a room at 26°C by rejecting the waste heat to the outside air at 34°C. The room is gaining heat through the walls and the windows at a rate of 250 kJ/min while the heat generated by the computer, TV, and lights amounts to 900 W. An unknown amount of heat is also generated by the people in the room. The condenser and evaporator pressures are 1200 and 500 kPa, respectively. The refrigerant is saturated liquid at the condenser exit and saturated vapor at the compressor inlet. If the refrigerant enters the compressor at a rate of 100 L/min and the isentropic efficiency of the compressor is 75 percent, determine
(a) The temperature of the refrigerant at the compressor exit,
(b) The rate of heat generation by the people in the room,
(c) The COP of the air conditioner, and
(d) The minimum volume flow rate of the refrigerant at the compressor inlet for the same compressor inlet and exit conditions.

An air conditioner with refrigerant-134a
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Thermodynamics An Engineering Approach

ISBN: 978-0073398174

8th edition

Authors: Yunus A. Cengel, Michael A. Boles

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