The Pressure Enthalpy Chart Sporlan Online（压焓图另在线）.pdf

January 2005 / FORM 5-200 The Pressure - Enthalpy Chart By Dave Demma, Senior Application Engineer - Supermarket Refrigeration How often have you heard the statement “it isn’t cooling?” Ton of Refrigeration - The amount of cooling required to Well it may seem a bit picky, but it is not entirely accurate to change (freeze) 1 ton of water at 32ºF into ice at 32ºF, in a 24 say the refrigeration system “cools”. If the system is operating hour period. properly, the refrigerated space should be “cooler” than its sur- roundings, but it is the result of a heat transfer process. Heat is Btu - British Thermal Unit: The amount of heat required to transferred from the refrigerated space to the refrigerant, and raise 1 lb. of water 1ºF. ultimately from the refrigerant to the ambient (at the condens- er). A lower temperature in the refrigerated space is the 1 Ton - 12,000 Btu/hr byproduct of this heat transfer process. Perhaps this is a minor shift in thinking, but in viewing the refrigeration system for Fig. 1 illustrates some of these definitions, using water as the what it is…a heat transfer process…a more fundamental medium experiencing a heat transfer process. This graph plots approach for diagnosis may be obtained. the water temperature vs. the enthalpy of the water (heat content in Btu/lb). We all know that water boils at 212ºF (atmospheric In an effort to gain a better understanding of the various heat pressure at sea level). By definition, water at atmospheric pres- transfer processes occurring in a refrigeration system, the pres- sure, at a temperature lower than