FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCIES OF THERMODYNAMIC AND THERMOKINETIC PARAMETERS OF REFRIGERANTS USED IN MINE AIR REFRIGERATORS .PART 2 – REFRIGERANT R404A

Abstract

This paper deals with thermodynamic and thermokinetic properties of R404A refrigerant, which is one of the more commonly used in mine air compression refrigerators. Knowledge of these parameters is essential to analyze performance of such refrigeration equipment, to design it, or to estimate efficiency of air refrigerators using various refrigerants. These properties can be defined using 27 simple computational formulas, contained in 4 tables (Tables 2, 6, 10 and 12). The relationships determining thermodynamic and thermokinetic parameters of R404A occur in saturated liquid region, dry saturated vapor region, superheated vapor region and supercooled liquid region. The developed relationships were subjected to statistical verification. For this purpose, correlation coefficients, coefficients of determination, as well as absolute and relative deviations were determined by comparing results of the calculations with the corresponding results obtained by REFPROP 7 (Lemmon et al., 2002). Results of verification are contained in Tables 14 and 15.