An ice-making machine operates on the ideal-vapor compression cycle using refrigerant-134a. The refrigerant enters the compressor...

An ice-making machine operates on the ideal-vapor compression cycle using refrigerant-134a. The refrigerant enters the compressor as saturated vapor at 40 psia and leaves the condenser as saturated liquid at 80 psia. Water enters the ice machine at 55°F and leaves as ice at 25°F. For an ice production rate of 21 lbm/h, determine the power input to the ice machine (169 Btu of heat needs to be removed from each lbm of water at 55°F to turn it into ice at 25°F).

The power input to the ice machine is ?

Answer should be gotten in hp(horsepower)

Expert Solution

Manojponduru answered 8 months ago

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