Conference Year
2018
Keywords
Natural Refrigerants, Ejector, Expansion Work Recovery, Military Refrigeration, Carbon Dioxide
Abstract
As electronics in military aircraft become increasingly complicated, additional cooling is necessary to enable efficient and high computing performance. Additionally, the varying forces that a military aircraft endure during maneuvering and inverted flight introduce unique design constraints to the electronics cooling systems. Because this cooling system will be in an aircraft, the capacity and unique design constraints must all be met with a design that is as lightweight as possible. This paper presents a study comparing the coefficient of performance (COP) of several cycle architectures with both R134a and carbon dioxide ( ). Cycles with single-stage and two-stage compression with intercooling are compared, and both are modeled with suction-to-liquid line heat exchangers. The cycles utilizing are transcritical in order to reach the required temperatures for heat rejection from the gas cooler. Additionally, cycles with expansion work recovery and an ejector are compared. The cooling requirements are up to 150 kW with a heat source temperature as low as and a heat sink temperature of up to . The purpose of this analysis is to understand which of the above cycles performs with the highest efficiency for the given electronics cooling application.