EP1848934B1 - Circuit de réfrigération avec récepteur amélioré de liquide/vapeur - Google Patents

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EP1848934B1
EP1848934B1 EP05723391.8A EP05723391A EP1848934B1 EP 1848934 B1 EP1848934 B1 EP 1848934B1 EP 05723391 A EP05723391 A EP 05723391A EP 1848934 B1 EP1848934 B1 EP 1848934B1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B40/00—Subcoolers, desuperheaters or superheaters
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B41/00—Fluid-circulation arrangements
    • F25B41/30—Expansion means; Dispositions thereof
    • F25B41/39—Dispositions with two or more expansion means arranged in series, i.e. multi-stage expansion, on a refrigerant line leading to the same evaporator
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B9/00—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point
    • F25B9/002—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point characterised by the refrigerant
    • F25B9/008—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point characterised by the refrigerant the refrigerant being carbon dioxide
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B1/00—Compression machines, plants or systems with non-reversible cycle
    • F25B1/10—Compression machines, plants or systems with non-reversible cycle with multi-stage compression
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B2309/00—Gas cycle refrigeration machines
    • F25B2309/06—Compression machines, plants or systems characterised by the refrigerant being carbon dioxide
    • F25B2309/061—Compression machines, plants or systems characterised by the refrigerant being carbon dioxide with cycle highest pressure above the supercritical pressure
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B2400/00—General features or devices for refrigeration machines, plants or systems, combined heating and refrigeration systems or heat-pump systems, i.e. not limited to a particular subgroup of F25B
    • F25B2400/05—Compression system with heat exchange between particular parts of the system
    • F25B2400/053—Compression system with heat exchange between particular parts of the system between the storage receiver and another part of the system
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B2400/00—General features or devices for refrigeration machines, plants or systems, combined heating and refrigeration systems or heat-pump systems, i.e. not limited to a particular subgroup of F25B
    • F25B2400/07—Details of compressors or related parts
    • F25B2400/075—Details of compressors or related parts with parallel compressors
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B2400/00—General features or devices for refrigeration machines, plants or systems, combined heating and refrigeration systems or heat-pump systems, i.e. not limited to a particular subgroup of F25B
    • F25B2400/13—Economisers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B2400/00—General features or devices for refrigeration machines, plants or systems, combined heating and refrigeration systems or heat-pump systems, i.e. not limited to a particular subgroup of F25B
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  • This invention relates to a refrigeration circuit
  • a refrigeration circuit comprising a first compressor device, a heat-rejecting heat exchanger, a first expansion device, a receiver having an upper portion and a lower portion, a second expansion device, and a first evaporator.
  • the refrigeration circuit further comprises a flow path between the upper portion of the receiver and a compressor, the pressure side of which is in flow communication with the entrance of the heat-rejecting heat exchanger.
  • the refrigeration circuit preferably is of the type designed for CO 2 as a refrigerant, but is not limited thereto.
  • the refrigeration circuit is of the two stage expansion type, wherein the refrigerant first is expanded in first stage expansion.
  • the first stage expansion provides cooling to complete condensation of the refrigerant in the receiver.
  • the section of the refrigeration circuit extending from the receiver to the compressor device is at a substantially lower pressure level than the remaining section of the refrigeration circuit extending from the compressor device to first expansion device.
  • EP 0 541 343 A shows a household refrigerator including a refrigerant circuit having a compressor, a condenser receiving refrigerant from the compressor and a phase separator receiving refrigerant from the condenser.
  • the portion of the phase separator which contains liquid refrigerant is connected to the inlet of the freezer evaporator, the outlet of which is connected to the compressor. That portion of the phase separator which contains vapour refrigerant is connected to the compressor.
  • the fresh food evaporator is connected to the phase separator to receive liquid refrigerant from the phase separator and to return vapor refrigerant to the phase separator.
  • a refrigeration circuit for circulating a refrigerant in a predetermined flow direction comprising in flow direction a first compressor device, a heat-rejecting heat exchanger, a first expansion device, a receiver having in its interior an upper portion, being in flow communication with the first expansion device, and a lower portion, a second expansion device being in flow communication with the lower portion of the receiver, and a first evaporator; and comprising a further flow path between the upper portion of the receiver and the suction side of a compressor being part of said first compressor device, the pressure side of which is in flow communication with the entrance of said heat-rejecting heat exchanger; wherein at least one element of the group consisting of the following elements (a) and (b) is provided: (a) a second heat exchanger is arranged in said upper portion of said receiver, the entrance of the second heat exchanger being in flow communication with the exit of said heat-rejecting heat exchanger and the exit of the second heat exchanger being in flow communication with the entrance
  • the second heat exchanger arranged in the upper portion of the receiver exchanges heat against the vapour contained in the upper portion of the receiver. Any liquid droplets that may be present in the upper portion of the receiver will be evaporated and entrained into the further flow path.
  • the third expansion device and the third heat exchanger arranged in lower portion of the receiver provide sub-cooling the liquid in the lower portion of the receiver.
  • Such sub-cooled liquid refrigerant results in more efficient cooling effect by the first evaporator and reduces the formation of refrigerant vapour in the section of the circuit extending from the receiver to the second expansion device.
  • All in all the improved receiver provides for a more perfect separation into a gaseous phase of the refrigerant having substantially no content of liquid droplets, and a liquid phase that is sub-cooled and has less tendency to vapour formation.
  • the first compressor device may be a single compressor or a parallel group of several compressors.
  • the compressor device may be of the type comprising a control of its performance, for example by way of controlling its rotational speed dependent on the pressure level of the compressed gaseous refrigerant to be achieved.
  • the compressor associated to the further flow path starting from the upper portion of the receiver may be a further compressor.
  • the suction side of such further compressor may be at a higher pressure level than the suction side of the first-mentioned compressor device, or may be a substantially the same pressure level as the first-mentioned compressor device. It is possible to combine the compressor, that is associated to the further flow path, with the first-mentioned compressor device, either by using one and the same compressor for compressing the gaseous refrigerant coming from the second expansion device as well as the gaseous refrigerant coming from the upper portion of the receiver, or by combining the further compressor, that is associated to the further flow path, into a parallel group of compressors forming the first compressor device.
  • the refrigeration circuit further comprises a branch circuit, branching off from a location located in a section of said circuit which section extends from said lower portion of said receiver to the entrance of said second expansion device; the branch circuit comprising in flow direction a fourth expansion device, a second evaporator, and a second compressor device; and the branch circuit, at its downstream end, being in flow communication with the suction side of said first compressor device.
  • the branch circuit provides low temperature cooling, for example for deep-freezing purposes.
  • the second expansion device and the first evaporator provide for medium temperature cooling, for example for keeping food and beverages at a temperature level of 0 to 10°C.
  • the refrigeration circuit may comprise one or several second expansion devices/first evaporators, arranged in parallel, and one or several fourth expansion devices/second evaporators, arranged in parallel, if any.
  • the refrigerant in the refrigeration circuit may be a one-component refrigerant or a multiple-components refrigerant.
  • expansion devices of various constructions and designs may be provided.
  • a quite common form of expansion device is an expansion valve.
  • the expansion device may be a throttling device or a throttle valve.
  • the expansion device depending on its location, the temperature level, and the pressure level, may serve to expand liquid refrigerant to gaseous refrigerant or may expand gaseous refrigerant from a higher pressure level to a lower pressure level.
  • This invention further relates to a refrigeration apparatus comprising a refrigeration circuit as disclosed in the present application.
  • the refrigeration apparatus of this invention may be provided as a heat pump.
  • the technical elements of cooling apparatus and heat pumps are the same.
  • the purpose of cooling is the primary purpose, and the related generation of heat is normally a side effect.
  • heat pumps the generation of heat is the desired purpose, whereas the related cooling effect of the evaporator(s) is normally considered a less useful side effect.
  • This invention also discloses a heat pump having a circuit as disclosed in the present application. Such circuit may be designated a refrigeration circuit because it contains a refrigerant undergoing condensation and evaporation. Some times people prefer to use the term working fluid rather than to use the term refrigerant when describing a heat pump.
  • a refrigeration circuit containing CO 2 as a refrigerant may be a circuit operated in transcritical cycle, or may be a circuit operated in subcritical cycle, or may be a circuit operable in transcritical cycle or in subcritical cycle depending on parameters such as environmental temperature and pressure level after the compressor device.
  • the refrigeration circuit does not reach a subcritical temperature level at the heat-rejecting heat exchanger, at least in summer time season; the circuit is operated in transcritical cycle.
  • the heat-rejecting heat exchanger operates as a gas cooler.
  • the heat-rejecting heat exchanger operates as a combined gas cooler and condenser.
  • the main functions of the receiver are to permanently keep available a sufficient quantity of liquid refrigerant and to provide a separation between liquid refrigerant and gaseous refrigerant (vapour).
  • the condensation of refrigerant by means of flash cooling provided by the first expansion device is a further function.
  • the refrigeration apparatus/heat pump of this invention has a number of preferred fields of application. The most important are cooling food and beverages in shops, restaurants or other locations of storage; cooling other temperature-sensitive products such as pharmaceuticals; deep-freezing; cooling buildings of any sort; cooling cars and any other type of vehicles in the broad sense, such as aircrafts, ships, railway cars etc.
  • This invention further relates to a refrigeration method.
  • the refrigeration method comprises at least one step of the group of steps consisting of (i) operating a heat source in said upper portion of said receiver, (ii) operating a heat sink in said lower portion of said receiver.
  • the total refrigeration circuit shown in Fig. 1 comprises a first-described (basic) circuit, a second-described further flow path, and a third-described branch circuit, and some additional elements.
  • the basic circuit when beginning with a compressor device 6 and progressing in flow direction of the CO 2 -refrigerant, comprises the following elements:
  • the compressor device 6 comprises three parallel compressors and a further compressor 6' to be described in more detail further below.
  • the suction sides of the three compressors are supplied by a common supply space.
  • the compressor device 6 compresses the supplied gaseous CO 2 to a pressure in the range of 50 to 120 bar, whereby the temperature of the gaseous compressed CO 2 is increased to about 50 to 150°C.
  • the pressure of the compressed gaseous CO 2 would typically be in the range of 40 to 70 bar.
  • the heat-rejecting heat exchanger removes heat from the CO 2 .
  • the CO 2 is typically cooled to 10 to 30°C and condensed in the heat-rejecting heat exchanger 1; in this case heat exchanger 1 works as a combined gas cooler and condenser.
  • the CO 2 is typically cooled to a temperature of 25 to 45°C, without condensation of a substantial part of the CO 2 , in the heat-rejecting heat exchanger; in this case it works as a gas cooler.
  • the heat exchanger 1 is gas cooled or liquid (water) cooled.
  • the vapour or liquid/vapour mixture or liquid CO 2 in subcritical operation is expanded by the expansion valve a provided next to the receiver 3, thereby providing flash gas in an upper portion of the receiver 3.
  • the pressure level in the interior of the receiver 3 is 30 to 40 bar.
  • a lower portion of the receiver 3 contains liquid CO 2 .
  • the receiver 3 also acts as a separator of liquid CO 2 and CO 2 vapour.
  • the liquid CO 2 is expanded to typically a temperature of minus 15 to 0°C, resulting in a pressure level of typically 20 to 35 bar.
  • the evaporators E2 and E3 next to the expansion valves b and c serve to allow for a complete evaporation of the CO 2 and provide large cool surfaces, from where the cooling proper originates, typically by air moving by the "cool air is heavier than warm air" principle or moving by forced ventilation.
  • the compressor device 6 and the receiver 3 are typically mounted in a common metal frame, also supporting the control equipment of the refrigeration apparatus.
  • the remaining section of the basic circuit extending from the exit side of the expansion valve a to the suction side of the compressor device 6 is at two substantially lower pressure levels, namely typically 30 to 40 bar in front of the expansion valves b and c and typically 25 to 30 bar in front of the compressor device 6.
  • the second-mentioned section of the basic circuit may be designed for such lower pressure levels, i.e. by using tubes having thinner walls, by using less sophisticated connections where CO 2 is flowing, and by using evaporators adapted to the relatively low pressure level.
  • the expansion valve e may be dispensed with, and there is just a conduit 12, 15 from the upper portion of the receiver 3 to the further compressor 6'.
  • the suction side of such further compressor 6' is at a higher pressure level that the suction side of the compressor device 6.
  • the pressure sides of all the compressors 6 and 6' have the same pressure level. Rather than providing the further compressor 6', it is possible to feed from line 15 into one or several of the compressors of the compressor device 6, but at a stage after a first compression stage, so that the flash gas is fed into the compressor device 6 at the right pressure level of the compressors.
  • Fig. 1 shows a branch circuit comprising the following: A conduit 8 branches off from the conduit 4 upstream of the expansion valves b and c; a (fourth) expansion valve d; a second evaporator E4; a conduit 9; a second compressor device 10, and a conduit 11 providing fluid flow connection with the suction side of the first compressor device 6.
  • the expansion valve d and the second evaporator E4 are designed to provide an expansion of the liquid CO 2 to a lower pressure level than existing at the suction side of the compressor device 6.
  • the temperature level reached at the evaporator E4 is lower than the temperature level reached at the evaporators E2 and E3, thereby providing means for deep-freezing or storing at deep-freezing temperature.
  • Typical values are 7 to 15 bar and minus 50 to minus 25 °C in the evaporator E4.
  • FIG. 1 shows a conduit 13 branching off the conduit 2 (that leads from the first heat exchanger 1 to the first expansion valve a) to a heat exchanger E1, an expansion valve f being provided in such conduit 13.
  • a conduit 14 leads from the heat exchanger E1 to the suction side of the further compressor 6'.
  • the heat exchanger E1 exchanges heat against the CO 2 flowing through the conduit 2. Since the expansion valve f provides cool gaseous CO 2 , the CO 2 flowing through the conduit 2 is cooled, thereby either assisting in condensation of CO 2 or in sub-cooling of liquid CO 2 .
  • Fig. 2 shows a schematically sectional view of the receiver 3 at a larger scale than in Fig. 1 .
  • the receiver 3 has in its interior an upper portion 3a and a lower portion 3b.
  • a quantity of liquid CO 2 is contained in the receiver 3, filling the interior of the receiver 3 up to a level 22.
  • the level 22 may be higher or lower than shown in Fig. 2 .
  • the line 2 (providing a fluid flow connection between the exit of the heat exchanger 1 and the expansion valve a, cf. Fig. 1 ) extends into the receiver 3 and is connected to a second heat exchanger 24 arranged in the upper portion 3a of the receiver 3.
  • the expansion valve 28 produces flash gas in the upper portion 3a, which as a consequence is at a lower temperature level than the CO 2 flowing through the second heat exchanger 24. Any droplets of liquid CO 2 that may be present in the upper portion 3a, are evaporated. This minimizes the potential for erosion of the expansion valve 34 described in the following paragraph.
  • the expansion valve 28 has the same function as the expansion valve a shown in Fig. 1 . The difference is that the conduit 2 does not lead directly to the expansion valve 28, but there is the second heat exchanger 24 upstream of the expansion valve 28. By means of the second heat exchanger 24, the gaseous CO 2 exiting the upper portion 3a contains less condensed CO 2 than without the provision of the second heat exchanger 24.
  • the CO 2 By passing through the expansion valve 34 the CO 2 becomes cooler, and the third heat exchanger 32 provides sub-cooling of the liquid CO 2 accumulated in the lower portion 3b of the receiver 3.
  • the liquid, sub-cooled CO 2 exits the lower portion 3b via conduit 4, as shown in Fig. 1 .
  • the gaseous CO 2 flowing through the third heat exchanger 32 gets a certain overheating which reduces the risk of entrainment of liquid CO 2 into the compressor device 6.

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  1. Circuit de réfrigération servant à faire circuler un réfrigérant dans un sens prédéfini d'écoulement, comprenant dans le sens d'écoulement un premier dispositif compresseur (6), un échangeur de chaleur à dissipation de chaleur (1), un premier dispositif d'expansion (a ; 28), un récepteur (3) comportant dans sa partie intérieure une partie supérieure de vapeur (3a), en communication fluidique avec le premier dispositif d'expansion (a ; 28) et une partie inférieure de liquide (3b), un deuxième dispositif d'expansion (b ; c ; d) en communication fluidique avec la partie inférieure de liquide (3b) du récepteur (3), et un premier évaporateur (E2 ; E3) ;
    une autre voie d'écoulement (12 ; 30) entre la partie supérieure de vapeur (3a) du récepteur (3) et le côté aspiration d'un compresseur faisant partie dudit premier dispositif compresseur (6), dont le côté de pression est en communication fluidique avec l'entrée dudit échangeur de chaleur à dissipation de chaleur (1) ;
    caractérisé par au moins un élément du groupe constitué des éléments suivants (a) et (b) est prévu :
    (a) un deuxième échangeur de chaleur (24) est prévu dans ladite partie vapeur supérieure (3a) dudit récepteur (3), l'entrée du deuxième échangeur de chaleur (24) étant en communication fluidique avec la sortie dudit échangeur de chaleur à dissipation de chaleur (1) et la sortie dudit deuxième échangeur de chaleur (24) étant en communication fluidique avec l'entrée dudit dispositif d'expansion (28),
    (b) ladite autre voie d'écoulement (30) comprend un troisième dispositif d'expansion (34) et, en aval de celle-ci, un troisième échangeur de chaleur (32) disposé dans ladite partie liquide inférieure (3b) dudit récepteur (3).
  2. Circuit de réfrigération selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit réfrigérant est du CO2.
  3. Circuit de réfrigération selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 ou 2, dans lequel ledit premier dispositif compresseur (6) comprend un groupe parallèle de plusieurs compresseurs.
  4. Circuit de réfrigération selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, dans lequel ledit premier dispositif compresseur (6) comprend un autre compresseur (6'), le côté aspiration de l'autre compresseur (6') étant à un niveau de pression supérieur que le côté aspiration (20) du premier dispositif compresseur (6) ; ou
    dans lequel au moins un des compresseurs du premier dispositif compresseur (6) est introduit à partir de l'autre voie d'écoulement (12 ; 30) au niveau d'un étage après un premier étage de compression.
  5. Circuit de réfrigération selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, comprenant en outre un circuit en dérivation (8 ; 9 ; 11) bifurquant à partir d'un emplacement situé dans une partie (4) dudit circuit, ladite partie s'étendant à partir de ladite partie inférieure de liquide (3b) dudit récepteur (3) jusqu'à l'entrée dudit deuxième dispositif d'expansion (b ; c) ; ledit circuit de dérivation (8 ; 9 ; 11) comprenant dans le sens d'écoulement un quatrième dispositif d'expansion (d), un deuxième évaporateur (E4) et un deuxième dispositif compresseur (10) ; et le circuit de dérivation (8 ; 9 ; 11), au niveau de son extrémité aval, étant en communication fluidique avec le côté aspiration dudit premier dispositif compresseur (6).
  6. Circuit de réfrigération selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, dans lequel plusieurs premiers évaporateurs parallèles sont prévus.
  7. Appareil de réfrigération comprenant un circuit de réfrigération tel que spécifié dans l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6.
  8. Procédé de réfrigération, comprenant :
    (a) la mise en circulation d'un réfrigérant dans un circuit réfrigérant comprenant, dans le sens d'écoulement, un premier dispositif compresseur (6), un échangeur de chaleur à dissipation de chaleur (1), un premier dispositif d'expansion (a ; 28), un récepteur (3) comportant dans sa partie intérieure une partie supérieure de vapeur (3a), qui est en communication fluidique avec le premier dispositif d'expansion (a ; 28) et une partie inférieure de liquide (3b), un deuxième dispositif d'expansion (b ; c ; d) en communication fluidique avec la partie liquide inférieure (3b) du récepteur (3) et un premier évaporateur (E2 ; E3) ;
    (b) le circuit de réfrigération comprenant en outre une autre voie d'écoulement (12 ; 30) prévue entre la partie supérieure de vapeur (3a) du récepteur (3) et la partie d'aspiration d'un compresseur (6) qui fait partie dudit premier dispositif compresseur (6), dont le côté pression est en communication fluidique avec l'entrée dudit échangeur de chaleur à dissipation de chaleur (1) ;
    (c) ledit procédé de réfrigération comprenant au moins une étape du groupe d'étapes suivant
    (i) le fonctionnement d'une source de chaleur (24) dans ladite partie supérieure de vapeur (3a) dudit récepteur (3),
    (ii) le fonctionnement d'un puits de chaleur (32) dans ladite partie inférieure de liquide (3b) dudit récepteur (3), ledit puits de chaleur (32) étant incorporé dans ladite autre voie d'écoulement (30) présentant un troisième dispositif d'expansion (34) en amont dudit puits de chaleur (32).
  9. Procédé de réfrigération selon la revendication 8, dans lequel le réfrigérant est du CO2.
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