Solar Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning
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The official GTU curriculum for Solar Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning (subject code 3733905) as prescribed for M(E · Semester 3 divides the course into 3 units, covering 31 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3733905)Unit 1 Solar Energy – A potential for cooling system
- Introduction to solar energy used for cooling
- Potential and scope of solar cooling
- Types of solar cooling systems Solar Collection System: Performance analysis of solar flat plate collector
- cylindrical parabolic collector
- compound parabolic collector
- Flat plate collector with phase changing fluid
- Evacuated collector for the solar refrigeration and air-conditioning
- Thermal storage systems and its performance analysis
Unit 2 Conventional and Non-Conventional Compression Solar Refrigeration System
- Conventional Compression: Conventional Vapour compression (V-C) refrigeration
- Cycle analysis
- Selection criteria of refrigerants
- Performance evaluation of V-C System
- Non-Conventional Compression: Solar thermal conversion based V-C system
- Conventional Rankine cycle
- Rankine cycle solar cooling system and modeling
- Selection criteria of refrigerants for Rankin cycle
- Jet ejector compression solar cooling
- Modeling and performance evaluation
- Gas compression cycle solar cooling system
Unit 3 Thermodynamics of Vapour Absorption Cooling System (VACS)
- Principle and working of conventional VAC System
- Basic processes and working of VACS components
- Performance evaluation parameters of ideal and non-ideal VACS
- Selection criteria of refrigerant
- Solar Absorption Cooling System: Types of VAC system – Closed
- Intermittent and open cycle system
- Working and modeling of solar operated LiBr- H2O and NH3-H2O VACS
- Performance enhancement of VACS
- working and performance evaluation of solar intermittent VAC system
- Modeling of solar open cycle VACS
- Performance analysis of open and closed VACS
- Solar absorption space conditioning system with internal storage – working and modeling. 12 Subject Code: 3733905 w.e.f
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