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Exergy Analysis of a Solar Vapor Compression Refrigeration System Using R1234ze(E) as an Environmentally Friendly Replacement of R134a

Zakaria Triki¹, Ahmed Selloum¹, Younes Chiba¹, Hichem Tahraoui^1,2, Dorsaf Mansour³, Abdeltif Amrane^4,*, Meriem Zamouche⁵, Mohammed Kebir⁶, Jie Zhang⁷

1 Laboratory of Biomaterials and Transport Phenomena, University of Medea, Medea, 26000, Algeria
2 Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés Chimiques, Department of Process Engineering, University of Ferhat Abbas, Setif, 19000, Algeria
3 Chemistry Department, College of Sciences, University of Hail, Hail, 55223, Saudi Arabia
4 Univ Rennes, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, CNRS, ISCR–UMR6226, Rennes, F-35000, France
5 Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Médicament et le Développement Durable (ReMeDD), Faculty of Process Engineering, University of Salah Boubnider Constantine 3, Constantine, 25000, Algeria
6 Research Unit on Analysis and Technological Development in Environment (UR-ADTE/CRAPC), Bou-Ismail, Tipaza, 42004, Algeria
7 School of Engineering, Merz Court, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

* Corresponding Author: Abdeltif Amrane. Email: