Performance of the chiller

In order to evaluate the performance of the chiller a comparison of experimentally measured cooling capacities and COPs with expected values from calculations is shown in Fig. 2. The experimental values were selected according to the following criteria:

1. a continuous operation during the whole hour as well as in the hour before and after,

2. stable temperatures with a small standard deviation has been measures in all three circuits,

3. only cooling operation was considered.

TCooling operation

For the evaluation of the cooling operation only hours with constant and steady operation were considered. Operation periods less than 60 minutes within one hour were not considered in this evaluation in order to avoid effects of transient states. From Table 1 it can be seen that 282 hours could be considered.