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Air Refrigeration Cycle

The document summarizes different types of aircraft refrigeration systems. It describes the simple air refrigeration system which uses a turbine to drive a fan and cool air for ground use. The bootstrap system uses two heat exchangers and a turbine to drive a compressor for high-speed aircraft. The regenerative system also uses two heat exchangers and cools air further with bled refrigerated air. The reduced ambient system uses two expansion turbines, one for cabin air and one for cooling air, connected to a fan for supersonic and rocket applications.

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Air Refrigeration Cycle

The document summarizes different types of aircraft refrigeration systems. It describes the simple air refrigeration system which uses a turbine to drive a fan and cool air for ground use. The bootstrap system uses two heat exchangers and a turbine to drive a compressor for high-speed aircraft. The regenerative system also uses two heat exchangers and cools air further with bled refrigerated air. The reduced ambient system uses two expansion turbines, one for cabin air and one for cooling air, connected to a fan for supersonic and rocket applications.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEER(M.

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PDPU
 Application Of Aircraft Refrigeration

 External heat gain due to solar radiations.


 Heat released by the occupants.
 Internal heat gain due to electrical and mechanical equipment
used.
 Simple air refrigeration system.
 Bootstrap air refrigeration system.
 Regenerative air refrigeration system.
 Reduced ambient system.
Simple air refrigeration system
 T-S diagram of simple air refrigeretion system

It is used for ground cooling[when the aircraft is not


moving]
 In the simple system shown in figure the compressed air
after cooling in air cooler is passed through a cooling
turbine.
 The work of this turbine is to drive a fan which draws
cooling air through the heat exchanger.
 The air is discharge from turbine at a pressure slightly above
the cabin pressure.
 The fan is put on the down stream side thus avoid the
additional temperature rise of the cooling air.
 This system is good for ground cooling since the fan driven
by the turbine is a source of providing cooling air for the
heat exchanger.
 However the turbine work is not available for the
compressor.
Bootstrap air refrigeration system
It is used in a high speed aircraft
 The Bootstrap system shown in figure has two heat
exchangers instead of one and the expansion turbine
drives a compressor rather than a fan.
 Thus,it cannot be used for ground cooling.
 The primary purpose of Bootstrap system is to provide
an additional cooling capacity when the primary
source of air does not have a sufficiently high pressure
to provide the amount of cooling required.
 The turbine drives the secondary compressor to rise the
pressure of primary air before it enters the turbine .
 It is used for highspeed aircraft where in the velocity of
the aircraft provides the necessary airflow for the heat
exchangers ,as a result a separate fan is not required.
Regenerative system
 T-S Diagram of Regenerative System

It is used for ground cooling as well as high speed aircrafts.


 The regenerative system shown in figure also has two
heat exchangers but does not required ram air for
cooling the air in the second heat exchanger.
 It is a modification of the simple system with the
addition of a secondary heat exchanger in which the air
from the primary heat exchanger is further cooled with
a portion of the refrigerated air bled after expansion in
the turbine as shown in figure.
 It provides lower turbine discharge temperatures but at
the expense of some weight and complications.
Reduced Ambient Air Refrigeration System
 T-S Diagram of Reduced Ambient System

It is used in Supersonic aircraft and Rockets.


 In the reduced ambient system there are two expansion
turbines-one in the cabin air stream and the other in
the cooling air streams.
 Both turbines are connected to the shaft driving the fan
which absorbs all the power.
 The turbine for the ram air operates from the pressure
ratio made available by the ram air pressure .
 The cooling turbine reduces the temperature of cooling
air to level of static temperature of ambient air .
 Thus,primary compressed air can be cooled to,say T4
below the stagnation temperature T2 and a little above
the static temperature T1.
 DART is the index used to compare different aircraft
cooling system.
 It is defined as the temperature of air at the exit of the
cooling turbine in the absence of any moisture
condensation.
 Thus the capacity of the machine giving m. kg/sec of
air at a DART of to to maintain a cabin at temperature ti
is
Q. = m .Cp(t – t )
0 i 0

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