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Carrier-Fluid Screening for a Three-Phase Sublimation Refrigeration Cycle with CO2 Using Reference Equations of State and COSMO-SAC
journal contribution
posted on 2019-09-17, 14:53 authored by Erik Mickoleit, Andreas Jäger, Cornelia BreitkopfThe
recently proposed combination of the multifluid mixture model
with gE-models is used for investigating
possible carrier-fluids for CO2 for a new type of refrigeration
cycle. According to the EU regulation No. 517/2014, placing refrigerants
with a global warming potential greater than 2500 on the market is
prohibited after January 1, 2020. Cooling applications designed to
cool products below −50
°C, for which mostly the refrigerant R-23 with a global warming
potential (GWP) of 14800 is used, are an exception. R-23 could be
replaced by carbon dioxide (CO2, GWP = 1) in a refrigeration
cycle in which the CO2 is expanded into the sublimation
region. The CO2 could be blended with a suitable carrier-fluid
in order to prevent blockages due to enrichment of dry ice as well
as to increase the heat transfer in the sublimator. A screening for
a suitable carrier-fluid has been conducted using the most accurate
equations of state available in the multifluid mixture model combined
with a version of the predictive gE-model
COSMO-SAC that considers different strengths of donor–acceptor
surface segment combinations. Some of the carrier-fluids lead to a
significantly improved coefficient of performance compared to the
process with pure CO2.