Question: Show me the steps to solve including using the property table. The interior space of a building in winter is to be heated by a

Show me the steps to solve including using the property table.
The interior space of a building in winter is to be heated by a heat pump to maintain the internal temperature at 22.0C. The 55.0 kW building heat load will be provided by a heat pump that
absorbs heat from a geothermal water source at 18.0C. The water from the geothermal water
source enters the evaporator heat exchanger at 18.0C and exits at 11.0C. The heat pump utilises
refrigerant R-134a as the working fluid and operates with a discharge pressure of 1.40 MPa and a
suction pressure of 320 kPa. Modelling the heat pump cycle as an actual vapour compression
cycle (AVCC), with an evaporator exit temperature of 10.0C and condenser entry and exit
temperatures of 80.0C and 30.0C respectively, answer the following:
1. What is the COP of this AVCC system?
2. Determine the mass flowrate of refrigerant (in kg/s).
3. Find the required volumetric flowrate of water from the geothermal source (in L/min)
4. Determine the isentropic efficiency of the compressor (assume the compressor to be
adiabatic).
5. If an ideal Carnot heat pump replaced the heat pump analysed in parts 1 to 4 of this
question, what would be the required power input for the Carnot heat pump? (Assume the
heat load is still 55.0 kW).

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