Simulation-based design and optimization of refrigeration cassettes

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4756-4765

  Waltrich, Maicon ^b   Hermes, Christian J L ^a   Melo, Cláudio ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cost; Design; Optimization; Performance; Refrigeration; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; COMPRESSOR MODELS; COOLING CAPACITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GENETIC OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; MODEL DRIVEN DESIGN; MODEL PREDICTION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION; SIMULATION-BASED DESIGNS; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; WORKING PRESSURES;

COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATION;

ALGORITHM; COOLING; DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052267724     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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