THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

Shan Wang

,

Shuhong Li

,

Mengkai Xu

,

Zhenghao Jin

,

Chengcheng Xu

SIMULATION RESEARCH ON ABSORPTION REFRIGERATION SYSTEM BASED ON NH3-H2O-LIBR VAPOR-LIQUID EQUILIBRIUM CALCULATION MODEL

ABSTRACT
In order to investigate the NH3+H2O+LiBr (lithium bromide) absorption refrigeration cycle process and to simulate it accurately, a vapor-liquid equilibrium calculation model was proposed to obtain thermodynamic characteristic data of the ternary mixtures. The calculation of parameters of liquid phase is based on Wilson’s equation and non-random two liquid equation. The vapor phase, assumed to consist of NH3 and H2O only, is described by The Redlich-Kwong Equation of State. The data of the equilibrium vapor pressure and the NH3 concentration in liquid phase calculated by this model was compared with the experimental data, the difference is between 0.5% to 9.6% within the temperature range from 303 K to 425 K. The COP obtained by the simulation matches with that obtained by experiment and the absolute deviation is less than 0.02. Therefore, this calculation model can be used for simulation to extend the temperature range and pressure range of the system, so as to determine the design parameters of the absorption refrigeration system. The simulation results indicates that under different working conditions, the optimal generator temperature and concentration of adding LiBr can be selected, to which the theoretical explanations were given in this paper.
KEYWORDS
absorption refrigeration system, solvation model, NH3−H2O−LiBr, vapor-liquid equilibrium
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2021-01-27
PAPER REVISED: 1970-01-01
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2021-04-25
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2021-06-05
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI210127201W
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2022, VOLUME 26, ISSUE Issue 2, PAGES [1825 - 1840]
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