Refrigeration Equipment's
Compressors:
• The compressors are considered as the heart of refrigeration system , because it
pumps the refrigerant through the system similar to the heart which pumps
blood through the body.
a) Reciprocating Compressor:
• It sucks the low pressure and low temperature refrigerant from evaporator
during suction stroke and delivers it at high pressure and high temperature to
condenser.
• They are used for refrigeration plant ranging in sizes from 0.25 ton to 100 tons
capacity per unit.
• These are satisfactorily used with the refrigerants as NH₃ , SO₂ , CH₃Cl and most
of freons.
• Preferable for high compression ratio and low specific volume refrigerants.
• Single acting vertical compressors.
• Double acting horizontal compressors.
b). Rotary Compressor:
• Rotary compressor with one stationary sealing blade and eccentric
motor.
• Rotary compressor with sealing blade which rotate with eccentric
shaft.
• These compressors are generally preferred with fractional tonnage
refrigeration applications.
c) The Scroll Compressor:
• In this arrangement space occupied by the fluid will decrease in
volume as it gets nearer the centre of machine , so principle can be
applied only for compressible fluids.
d) Centrifugal Compressor:
• The refrigerant vapor is drawn into the compressor and it is
discharged with a considerable high velocity at the outside edge of
impeller.
• The high velocity head is further converted into pressure head by
passing through diffuses.
• The rise in pressure per stage of centrifugal compressor is
considerably smaller compared with single stage reciprocating
compressor , therefore when high compressor ratio is required a
multistage system is used.
• The baffles must be provided in the suction path of refrigerant to
prevent the flow of liquid droplets with vapour which may damage
impeller.
• The power requirement of compressor drastically increases with an
increase in pressure of system.
e) Screw compressors
f)Thermo compressors
Condensers and Cooling Tower:
• Air cooled condensers
• Water cooled condensers
• Double tube condenser
• Shell and coil condenser
• Shell and tube condenser
• Evaporative condenser
• Spray type cooling tower
• Deck type cooling tower
• Forced draught cooling tower
• Induced draught cooling tower
Evaporators :
• Flooded evaporator
• Dry – expansion systems
• Natural convection evaporators
• Forced convection evaporators
• Shell and tube evaporator
• Shell and coil evaporator
• Double pipe evaporator
• Plate evaporator
• Secondary evaporator
Expansion devices:
• Capillary tube
• Automatic expansion valve
• Thermostatic expansion valve
• Low – side float valve
• High – side float valve
• Solenoid control valve
