CFD Analysis of Refrigerator Integrated with Atmospheric Water Generator

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  • Aniket V. Deshmukh
     Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SJJT University, Jhunjhunu - 333010, Rajasthan ,IN
  • Nititsh Kumar Gautam
     Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SJJT University, Jhunjhunu - 333010, Rajasthan ,IN
  • Anoop D. Shirbhate
     adshirbhate@gmail.com ,IN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18311/jmmf/2023/35865

Keywords:

Atmospheric Water Generator, Performance Analysis, Refrigerator Integrated with AWG, CFD

Abstract

This Research article discuss about the study of performance analysis. This system is a combination of refrigerator and Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG). The purpose behind integrating two devices is to get benefit of both products together, refrigerator will act as a domestic refrigerator plus the atmospheric water system will generate the fresh distilled water to drink. This system is designed to generate a water of 20 liters per day. Also, it is designed in such a way that, this AWG can attach with various capacity is the refrigerator. Performance evaluation of this system is done with the help of computational fluid dynamics. Fluent module is used in ANSYS software. Various levels of parameter are evaluated, variables considered in the study were Relative humidity, velocity of air in AWG heat exchanger, and temperature of air. The output parameters evaluated like water generation capacity of AWG, Coefficient of Performance (COP) of AWG and refrigerator and heat exchanger efficiency. The results of CFD shows positive results as per design. 24th case has given highest COP 1.26. General, range of COP lie between 1.127 to 1.260. COP of Standard Refrigerator remain between 1.437 to 1.593. Also, it means COP of other two cases are more. As far as COP of Refrigerator concern, COP with AWG is heist i.e. 1.91. But it cannot be clearly state that, COP with AWG is more than COP without AWG.

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2023-12-20

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Deshmukh, A. V., Gautam, N. K., & Shirbhate, A. D. (2023). CFD Analysis of Refrigerator Integrated with Atmospheric Water Generator. Journal of Mines, Metals and Fuels, 71(10), 1689–1696. https://doi.org/10.18311/jmmf/2023/35865

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Volume 71, Issue 10, October 2023

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