Hydrocarbons and their mixtures as alternatives to environmental unfriendly halogenated refrigerants: An updated overview

K Harby - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Vapor compression refrigeration systems consume high-grade energy and contribute to
global warming and ozone layer depletion due to the environmentally unfriendly …

Assessment of the utilization of equivalent warming impact metrics in refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump systems

A Mota-Babiloni, JR Barbosa Jr, P Makhnatch… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
The refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump (RACHP) industry is a significant
contributor to the climate change through its associated direct and indirect greenhouse gas …

R290 (propane) and R600a (isobutane) as natural refrigerants for residential heat pump water heaters

K Nawaz, B Shen, A Elatar, V Baxter… - Applied Thermal …, 2017 - Elsevier
Growing awareness of the potential environmental impacts of various refrigerants has led to
the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants and to initiatives replacing HFCs …

Energy efficiency enhancement of a domestic refrigerator using R436A and R600a as alternative refrigerants to R134a

M Rasti, SF Aghamiri, MS Hatamipour - International journal of thermal …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper is devoted to feasibility study of substitution of two hydrocarbon refrigerants
instead of R134a in a domestic refrigerator. Experiments are designed on a refrigerator …

Exergy analysis and optimization of R600a as a replacement of R134a in a domestic refrigerator system

MM Joybari, MS Hatamipour, A Rahimi… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Exergy analysis was applied to investigate the performance of a domestic refrigerator
originally manufactured to use 145 g of R134a. It was found that the highest exergy …

Retrofit assessment of refrigerator using hydrocarbon refrigerants

CC Yu, TP Teng - Applied thermal engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
This study used hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants in a small R134a refrigerator to evaluate the
refrigeration performance and feasibility of using these alternative refrigerants by conducting …

Energy and exergy analysis of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) as a drop in replacement for R134a in domestic refrigerators

M El-Morsi - Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
This study presents a comparison of energetic and exergetic performance of a vapour
compression refrigeration system using pure HC (hydrocarbon) refrigerants. In this study …

Energy and exergy analysis of zeotropic mixture R290/R600a vapor-compression refrigeration cycle with separation condensation

G Yan, C Cui, J Yu - International journal of refrigeration, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a modified vapor-compression refrigeration cycle (MVRC) system
operating with the zeotropic mixture R290/R600a for domestic refrigerator-freezers. In the …

Performance evaluation on an internal auto-cascade refrigeration cycle with mixture refrigerant R290/R600a

G Yan, H Hu, J Yu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an internal auto-cascade refrigeration cycle (IARC) operating with the
zeotropic mixture of R290/R600a or R290/R600 for domestic refrigerator-freezers. In the …

Thermodynamic analyses of a modified ejector enhanced dual temperature refrigeration cycle for domestic refrigerator/freezer application

Q Chen, M Yu, G Yan, J Yu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a modified ejector enhanced dual temperature refrigeration cycle
(MERC) with mixture refrigerant R290/R600a for domestic refrigerator/freezer application …