Ton of Refrigration

One watt equalls 3.4 BTU, 12,000 btu's equall one ton. 100KW would be 340,000 BTU's. About 28.3 Tons of cooling. Is this a cascade system?

100Kw = 341442.594972 BTU/hour. You can take it from there. Help may be in your text book, too.

A note of caution: In a multistage system, the load is progressively higher from stage to stage, because each higher stage also absorbs the motor energy of the lower stage(s).

1 TR= 3.5167 kW=12000 Btu/Hr=50.4 kcal/min

Engineers screw up everything. Do the really mix heat with mass? It might be they would need to vaporize a ton of refrigerant to get 100 kW of cool? It sounds funny to me too. Perhaps these guys want to confuse competition? or perhaps they do not know what they right as have too little blood cells in cocaine in their body?

Confused physicist!

You think this is bad, look in to FPS bricks.

"Engineers screw up everything. Do the really mix heat with mass?"

It is more of a concession to a customer than mixing units. You see, refrigeration's roots are in the ice making industry, and the ice guys wanted to convert this (BTU/Hr, which meant nothing to them) into ice production. If 288,000 BTU are required to make one ton of ice, divide this by 24 hours to get 12,000 BTU/Hr required to make one ton of ice in one day.

This system does not appear too screwed up to me. _{^{(Second time I got to use this!)}}

1 Watt hour=3.41214 BTU

12,000 Btu per hour =1 Ton of refrigeration