REFRIGERATOR CUM

WATER HEATER
Guidance By-
Prof. Diwakar Sir

Group Members-
Ms. Poonam Zade
Ms. Supriya Nale
PROJECT DEFINITION-

“Refrigerator cum water heater is a project

combined of two applications in a single unit mainly
aiming at waste heat recovery from condenser of
domestic refrigerator and Comparison between Air
cooled condenser and water cooled condenser to
calculate coefficient of performance.’’
IMPORTANCE OF PROJECT-

• Use of R134a Refrigerant to increase refrigerating effect and

cooling performance

• Heat recovery system

• It conserves less energy.

• Coefficient of performance increases.

VAPOUR COMPRESSION CYCLE
METHODOLOGY

• Selection of refrigerator system.(165lit.)

• Use of temperature sensors and pressure gauges.

• Calculation of C.O.P. of air cooled condenser.

• Replace the air cooled condenser with water cooled

condenser.

• Calculation of C.O.P. of water cooled condenser.

• Comparison of both C.O.P.

• Waste heat recovery from condenser.

Photo1.Refrigerator
condenser immersed in
water tank for
desuperheating.
• Specifications-
Condenser-
M S coil
Inner dia. 3mm, Outer dia.
5mm
Length 4.5metre
Tank-
Plastic tank 2lit capacity
Photo 3.Hermetically
sealed compressor
Model: MA42LBJG
Min. pressure: 8psi
Max. Pressure: 140psi
Refrigerant-R134a
3. Pressure gauge
‘WIKA’ make
Range – 0 to 28 kg/cm2
4. Energymeter
240 V, 5-30 A, CL 1,
50 Hz, 3200 imp/kWhr
EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE

Fig.1 shows the schematic diagram of experimental

setup. After the installation of the components on
refrigerator test setup started.Test was conducted in
two phases which are as follows-

• No Load (Refrigerator door fully closed), with and

without water

• Full Load (Refrigerator door fully opened), with

and without water
SCOPE OF PROJECT

1. Dessert Cooler – We can use wire mesh to evaporator for

getting cooling effect from refrigerator.

2. Magnetic refrigeration- We can use magnetic beds instead

of compressor for getting magnetocaloric effect.

3. Space Heating.
CONCLUSION
• Household refrigerator work normally and efficiently
with water cooled condenser

• Reduced power consumption.

• C.O.P. increases.
REFERENCES

• Research paper-
International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and
Technology (IJMET), ISSN 0976 – 6340(Print),
ISSN 0976 – 6359(Online), Volume 5, Issue 8, August (2014)

• Experimental investigation of waste heat recovery

system for domestic refrigerator By T.B. Shinde,
August 2014

• Book-
Refrigeration And Air Conditioning, C.P. Arora.
Heat And Mass Transfer, P.K. Nag.
THANK YOU.