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Multiple valve refrigeration system

US3952533A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 3, 1974
Grant dateApr 27, 1976
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Expiry dateSep 3, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF25B2400/22
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An energy saving refrigeration system as for refrigerated display cases in stores, free of the usual winter head pressure controls on the condenser equipment, capable of functioning satisfactorily with two-phase, liquid-gas mixtures of refrigerant inlet flow, there being a pair of valves immediately upstream of the evaporator, one being an expansion valve, and the other being a pressure regulator just upstream of the expansion valve adjusted such as to maintain a fixed discharge pressure to the expansion valve, this regulator discharge pressure set sufficiently above the evaporator boiling pressure and set sufficiently below the minimum inlet pressure to the pressure regulator.

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