University of Cebu – Main Campus

College of Engineering
ME 312C – Refrigeration System

Quiz No. 4

Instruction: Solve the following problems. Write your solution on a clean short
bond paper. Make sure to box all your final answer for each item. Strictly no
erasures allowed.

1. In an ammonia refrigeration system, the capacity is 210 KW at a

temperature of -200C. The vapor from the evaporator is pumped by one
compressor to the condensing pressure of 1431 KPa. Later, the system was
revised to a two-stage compression operating on the cycle shown below with
intercooling but no removal of flash at 555 KPa.

A. Draw the schematic diagram

B. Draw the Ph diagram
C. Calculate the power required by the single compressor in the original
system.
D. Calculate the total power required by the two compressors in the
revised system.