Zakaria Triki1, Ahmed Selloum1, Younes Chiba1, Hichem Tahraoui1,2, Dorsaf Mansour3, Abdeltif Amrane4,*, Meriem Zamouche5, Mohammed Kebir6, Jie Zhang7
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.22, No.4, pp. 1107-1128, 2024, DOI:10.32604/fhmt.2024.052223
Abstract Refrigeration plays a significant role across various aspects of human life and consumes substantial amounts of electrical energy. The rapid advancement of green cooling technology presents numerous solar-powered refrigeration systems as viable alternatives to traditional refrigeration equipment. Exergy analysis is a key in identifying actual thermodynamic losses and improving the environmental and economic efficiency of refrigeration systems. In this study exergy analyze has been conducted for a solar-powered vapor compression refrigeration (SP-VCR) system in the region of Ghardaïa (Southern Algeria) utilizing R1234ze(E) fluid as an eco-friendly substitute for R134a refrigerant. A MATLAB-based numerical model was… More >