Carrier-Fluid Screening for a Three-Phase Sublimation Refrigeration Cycle with CO2 Using Reference Equations of State and COSMO-SAC

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Abstract

The recently proposed combination of the multifluid mixture model with gE-models is used for investigating possible carrier-fluids for CO2 for a new type of refrigeration cycle. According to the EU regulation No. 517/2014, placing refrigerants with a global warming potential greater than 2500 on the market is prohibited after January 1, 2020. Cooling applications designed to cool products below -50 °C, for which mostly the refrigerant R-23 with a global warming potential (GWP) of 14800 is used, are an exception. R-23 could be replaced by carbon dioxide (CO2, GWP = 1) in a refrigeration cycle in which the CO2 is expanded into the sublimation region. The CO2 could be blended with a suitable carrier-fluid in order to prevent blockages due to enrichment of dry ice as well as to increase the heat transfer in the sublimator. A screening for a suitable carrier-fluid has been conducted using the most accurate equations of state available in the multifluid mixture model combined with a version of the predictive gE-model COSMO-SAC that considers different strengths of donor-acceptor surface segment combinations.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1124-1134
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of chemical and engineering data
Volume65
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 12 Mar 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

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ORCID /0000-0001-7908-4160/work/168204403

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