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Question

An undesirable property of a refrigerant is its:

The correct answer is

low latent heat of evaporation

Low latent heat of evaporation is undesirable because less heat is absorbed per kilogram during evaporation, so more refrigerant mass is required for the same phase-change cooling duty. Chemical stability, low freezing point and low viscosity are generally desirable.

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Important Questions from Refrigerants

  1. In Lithium-Bromide refrigeration system, Lithium-Bromide is used as

  2. The condenser and evaporator tubes in a Freon refrigeration plant are made of _____.

  3. Improper flaring is directly related with _______.

  4. When retrofitting a CFC-12 system to an HFC-134a system, Which two items must be installed or replaced?

  5. Freon group of refrigerant are ________

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