Development and Testing of Sustainable Refrigeration Plants
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) were banned with the Montreal Protocol in 1987, current refrigeration plants can not be considered sustainable for the environment. ODS have been in fact substituted by gases with high Global Warming Potential (GWP). Among many alternatives, inverse Joule Brayton air cycle had been already implemented and tested for refrigeration purposes. In the open cycles described in the available literature, the operating fluid (air) is firstly compressed by a bootstrap (volumetric) compressor and then processed by a second (centrifugal) compressor and cooled; then, it is expanded in a turbine which drives the centrifugal compressor and discharges a cold flow which can be used (directly or indirectly) for refrigeration purposes. In this work, an inverse Joule Brayton air cycle has been studied with the employment of turbocharger units. Experimental tests have been performed in order to reproduce the state-of-the-art with a small automotive turbocharger unit. Measurements show Coefficient Of Performance (COP) smaller than unit together with minimum turbine exit temperature equal to −10°C. This is due to low components efficiency: the analysis of turbine and turbocompressor maps highlights a non-optimal coupling between them. Secondly, basing on these considerations, two new air cycle layouts are proposed and analyzed. Calculations performed by means of a thermodynamic model show that higher COP and lower cycle minimum temperature can be achieved with the proposed new cycles by means of better turbine and turbocompressor matching and bigger turbocharger units with higher components efficiency.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".