A Testing Facility for Refrigerating Plants Equipment Working with New Fluids

Abstract:

A test rig was built in the department of energy, in laboratory of refrigerating engineering for test runs with a lot of fluid and equipment of various kind for commercial refrigeration. The facility has been continuously improved during the past years and allows to perform experiments aiming to assess the performance characteristics both of conventional and new equipment for commercial refrigeration. In the test rig can be tested a lot of cooling loop filled with a secondary fluid for simulation of their behavior in industrial and commercial plants (e.g.: during exploitation in supermarket and hypermarket for refrigeration of foodstuffs in cold store, display cases and cabinets, etc.). The paper reports main results of the experiments performed with the new fluid R422A versus the original refrigerating fluid R22.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 291-294)
• Pages: 1696-1700
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.291-294.1696
• Online since: February 2013
• Authors: Vincenzo La Rocca, Antonio Messineo, Massimo Morale, Domenico Panno
• Keywords: R22, R422A, Refrigerating Plant

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