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Refrigerators, Air Conditioners and Units of Measure

11/20/2009 8:05 AM

Why for refrigerator the capacity is given in litres and for airconditioning in tons.

Is there any rlation between litres and tons?

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11/20/2009 8:16 AM

No. You put stuff (beer, lettuce, cheese) in a refrigerator BOX (That's what is measured in liters), while the air conditioner ton refers to the cooling power of a US ton (2000 pounds = 907 kg) of ice melting every 24 hours.

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Re: Refrigerators, Air Conditioners and Units of Measure

11/20/2009 11:23 AM

The cooling power of 1 Ton AC is 12000 BTU/ Hr = 3.5KW

I have 1.5T AC - that means 5.25KW capacity. That means the Input is 5.25KW if I assume 100% efficiency.

But my AC is (as I remember) 2.0KW .

At least not 5.25KW since at 230V I have 15A MCB exclusively for it.

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11/21/2009 7:42 AM

A refrigeration or air-conditioning unit is a heat pump. Under normal air-conditioning conditions a heat pump can deliver far more pumping power than the input power. Essentially, the theoretical efficacy of a heat pump depends on the temperature differential. If the temperature differential was zero, the theoretical pump rate would be an infinite multiple of the input power (except of course that practical systems have losses that make this unreal).

A somewhat ridiculous example might illustrate this: consider pumping heat from a warm environment to a cold one. Heat will flow in this direction even if the heat-pump is turned off. At zero temperature difference no heat will flow without pumping - but it's right on the boundary of requiring pump energy...

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11/21/2009 12:22 PM

That is an interesting thought.

That means the input power < output power (Not exactly a PMM , but what I am feeding into system)

This may be used as a power concentrator? and then as a net power generator? Assuming the low concentration heat at the AC output can somehow be used to generate some form of energy.

(may be a graduete project for some one (a lot of students are around asking for project )

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11/22/2009 7:36 AM

No joy. This is real-world stuff, not a "perpetual motion machine".

The theoretical limit on the efficiency of refrigeration is simply the inverse of the theoretical limit on the efficiency of thermal power generation. If you had an "ideally efficient" refrigeration unit, and "ideally efficient" generator, and an "ideally efficient" energy store you would be able to pump heat, and then regenerate the input energy you used for pumping from the pumped heat (or vice versa).
Whichever way you did it, the best you could achieve (in this idealised world) would be to return to the original situation. But of course all real machines are lossy, so you couldn't even do that.

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11/20/2009 11:39 PM

Refrigeration is the process of removing heat at a lower temperature level and rejecting it at a relatively higher temperature level. Air conditioning is one of the applications of the refrigeration. There are other various applications of refrigeration. Refrigerator is used for preserving food and other items and hence the storage capacity is specified as volume as liters or cubic meters. In air-conditioning it is for comfort applications and it is specified as TR. One TR is equivalent to the production of cold at the rate at which heat is to be removed from one US tonne of water at 32F to freeze it to ice at 32 F in one day or 24 hours. I TR =12000 Btu/Hr =3.5 kW

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Re: Refrigerators, Air Conditioners and Units of Measure

11/21/2009 12:21 AM

hello

refrigerators is always volume in litere that means total volume of Refrigerator.

and second information of A/C. plz my wait for this answer..i also send this detail.your personal mail id send me.

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