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Refrigerant 134a enters an insulated compressor operating at steady state as saturated vapor at -26oC with...

Refrigerant 134a enters an insulated compressor operating at steady state as saturated vapor at -26oC with a volumetric flow rate of 0.18 m3/s. Refrigerant exits at 8 bar, 70oC. Changes in kinetic and potential energy from inlet to exit can be ignored.

Determine the volumetric flow rate at the exit, in m3/s, and the compressor power, in kW.

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In this problem, the specific enthalpy and specific volume of Refrigerant is taken from R-134a table at both state of the compressor and then Calculate mass flow rate of Refrigerant, volumetric flow rate at exit and compressor power as below:-

samet mamat answered 2 years ago
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