EP4168723A1 - Kältegerät mit einem saugrohr-wärmetauscher und verfahren zum betrieb eines kältegeräts mit einem saugrohr-wärmetauscher - Google Patents
Kältegerät mit einem saugrohr-wärmetauscher und verfahren zum betrieb eines kältegeräts mit einem saugrohr-wärmetauscherInfo
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a refrigeration device, in particular a household refrigeration device, with a refrigerant circuit which has an intake pipe heat exchanger, and a method for operating such a refrigeration device.
- the object of the present invention is to create a refrigeration device with two parallel evaporators or evaporator groups and an intake pipe heat exchanger as well as a method for operating such a refrigeration device in which an estimate of the mass flow of the refrigerant through an evaporator or an evaporator group in relation to the total mass flow of the refrigerant can be obtained.
- the object is achieved by a refrigeration device and a method for operating a refrigeration device according to the independent claims.
- the invention relates to a refrigeration device with a refrigerant circuit that has a compressor, a first evaporator group with at least one first evaporator and a high-pressure pipe connected upstream of the first evaporator group, a second evaporator group connected in parallel to the first evaporator group with at least one second evaporator, one of the first evaporator group and the second evaporator group downstream low-pressure pipe, and a suction pipe heat exchanger in which a high-pressure pipe section of the high-pressure pipe and a low-pressure pipe section of the low-pressure pipe are coupled in a thermally conductive manner.
- the intake manifold heat exchanger has three temperature sensors at three positions from a group of positions at the inlet and at the outlet of the low-pressure pipe section, and at the inlet and at the outlet of the high-pressure pipe section.
- a refrigeration device is in particular a household refrigeration device in which normal household quantities of food are stored in different compartments at different temperatures and possibly undergo a temperature treatment. With evaporators that are operated at different temperatures, storage compartments can be kept or operated at different temperatures.
- the invention can advantageously be used in the case of evaporators or evaporator groups connected in parallel, in which an evaporator group has evaporators each with a variably selectable temperature.
- a storage compartment that can be operated at a variably selectable temperature is referred to below as a flex compartment, and the associated evaporator is referred to as a flex compartment evaporator.
- the invention can be used particularly advantageously with evaporators or evaporator groups connected in parallel, in which a first evaporator or the evaporators of a first evaporator group is operated at low temperatures and the second evaporator or the evaporators of the second evaporator group optionally at a temperature lower than the ambient temperature or at a higher temperature than the ambient temperature.
- a flex compartment can be set to temperatures in a particularly wide temperature range.
- the invention describes a refrigeration device with a refrigerant circuit with two parallel lines, each with at least one evaporator.
- An important application is that in which there is only one evaporator in one or in both branches.
- the invention is described for the purpose of simplifying the description with regard to the first evaporator and the second evaporator. Those skilled in the art will recognize the generalization to the strands.
- suction pipe and low-pressure pipe are used synonymously and the terms suction pipe heat exchanger and internal heat exchanger are also used synonymously.
- the parallel evaporators typically each have a controllable throttle point, in particular an expansion valve at the inlet and outlet of the evaporator.
- an expansion valve is mentioned as a representative of a controllable throttle point.
- the pressure in the evaporator can be influenced by the valve positions in such a way that the associated compartment is cooled to different degrees.
- the evaporator groups are viewed as strands of the refrigerant circuit. It is advantageous to group the evaporators in such a way that in a first evaporator group there are only evaporators that operate storage compartments below ambient temperature, and in a second evaporator group there are only evaporators that operate storage compartments either below or above ambient temperature.
- Storage compartments of the first evaporator group are, for example, a refrigerator compartment, a cold storage compartment, a freezer compartment or a simple flexible compartment. Since all of these compartments are cooled, it is advantageous that the refrigerant line of the first evaporator group is part of an internal heat exchanger or intake pipe heat exchanger.
- a special feature of the refrigerant line to the second evaporator group is that it is not part of the internal heat exchanger in order to heat a flexible compartment with an extended temperature range also by refrigerant condensing in the flexible compartment evaporator.
- the advantage here is that the second evaporator can be supplied with warm or hot refrigerant at approximately the condenser temperature.
- the distribution of the mass flow depends not only on the valve positions but also on the gas content or subcooling at the respective valve inlet.
- the gas content and subcooling are not accessible for the device control, so that the exact distribution of the mass flows to the individual evaporators is difficult to determine.
- the invention is based on the idea that a ratio of mass flows in an internal heat exchanger with two strands can be determined if the two mass flows are essentially single-phase and at least three temperatures are known at the inputs and outputs of the internal heat exchanger. If four Temperatures at the inlets and outlets of the internal heat exchanger are known, the calculation is simplified.
- a refrigerant train transfers heat to the suction pipe. Since different mass flows on the warm and cold side cause different temperatures of the suction gas, this can be used to determine the mass flow fraction flowing through the first evaporator, since this is essentially single-phase in the high-pressure pipe section.
- the refrigerant in the suction pipe should be completely evaporated and thus be in single-phase gaseous form.
- the temperature distribution on the intake manifold heat exchanger is thus used as an internal heat exchanger in order to draw conclusions about the mass flow rate through the first evaporator.
- thermodynamics it is now possible to determine the ratio of the mass flows with good accuracy with three temperatures at the inlets and outlets of the intake pipe heat exchanger. See, for example, Basics of Heat and Mass Transfer, Lecture Notes Uni-Magdeburg, WS2009 / 2010.
- a third evaporator which follows the parallel evaporators and is traversed by the entire mass flow of the refrigerant, and whose suction pipe leads directly into the suction pipe heat exchanger, it is possible to set the temperature of the third evaporator as the temperature at the inlet of the suction pipe branch use or replace a temperature sensor at the inlet of the intake manifold with the temperature sensor in the third evaporator if there is no heat transfer between the third evaporator and the intake manifold.
- the evaporation temperature in the third evaporator and the suction gas temperature at the outlet of the internal heat exchanger can be used to determine the suction gas density and, with the speed of the compressor, the conveyed mass flow and thus the total mass flow.
- This method thus also provides the absolute value of the mass flow flowing through the first evaporator branch from the ratio of the mass flows and the total mass flow.
- the mass flow through the second evaporator branch then results from the difference to the total mass flow. In the event that the second If the evaporator branch has only one evaporator, the mass flow through this evaporator is thus determined.
- the high-pressure pipe section leads exclusively to the first evaporator group and does not lead to the second evaporator group. This has the advantage that the high-pressure pipe section has precisely the mass flow that flows through the first evaporator group.
- the high-pressure pipe section follows the condenser, it essentially carries liquid refrigerant.
- the mass flow through the high-pressure pipe section is therefore essentially a mass flow of liquid refrigerant with at most a very small proportion of gas.
- a variably adjustable throttle element in particular an expansion valve, is connected upstream and downstream of the first evaporator and the second evaporator.
- This has the advantage that a mass flow can be set independently of the other evaporator in the first evaporator and in the second evaporator.
- Each of these evaporators can be operated as an evaporator with a variable temperature. The pressure of the refrigerant and thus the evaporator temperature can be set for each of the evaporators independently of other evaporators.
- the intake manifold heat exchanger has a temperature sensor at each position from a group of positions. This has the advantage that the calculation of the ratio of the mass flows is simplified.
- the refrigeration device has a device for determining a ratio of the mass flows in the high-pressure pipe section and in the low-pressure pipe section.
- a device for determining a ratio of the mass flows in the high-pressure pipe section and in the low-pressure pipe section can advantageously be integrated in the control of the refrigeration device.
- the refrigeration device has a device for determining a ratio of the mass flows to the first evaporator group and the second evaporator group. This results from the fact that the Total mass flow is the sum of the mass flows to the first evaporator group and the second evaporator group.
- the refrigeration device has a third evaporator between the first and second evaporators arranged in parallel and the low-pressure pipe. This enables a further cooled compartment, preferably a compartment with a lower temperature than the previous compartments.
- the refrigeration device has a further suction pipe heat exchanger in which a further high-pressure pipe section of the high-pressure pipe and a further low-pressure pipe section of the low-pressure pipe are coupled in a thermally conductive manner.
- This increases the energy efficiency. It should be noted, however, that the additional intake pipe heat exchanger cannot be used for mass flow determinations if there are no essentially single-phase flows.
- the third evaporator has a temperature sensor which replaces a temperature sensor at the inlet of the low-pressure pipe section, and the outlet of the third evaporator is directly connected to the inlet of the intake pipe heat exchanger.
- the refrigerant temperature in the third evaporator and at the inlet of the intake manifold heat exchanger is the same.
- the temperature sensor for the temperature at the inlet of the intake manifold of the heat exchanger can therefore also be arranged in the third evaporator. This is particularly advantageous in the case of a no-frost evaporator, which usually already has a temperature sensor for controlling the defrosting process.
- the third evaporator is preferably assigned to a freezer compartment.
- the refrigeration device has a fourth evaporator in the flow direction of the refrigerant directly upstream of the third evaporator.
- the fourth evaporator can advantageously be assigned to a cooling compartment or a cold storage compartment which is supplied by gaseous refrigerant from the preceding freezer compartment evaporator. This enables very good energy efficiency.
- the compressor is a permanently running compressor with a variable speed. This has the advantage that a constant temperature can be set in the evaporators, which avoids the usual temperature hysteresis in an intermittently operating compressor.
- the evaporators of the first evaporator group do not necessarily have to be assigned to flexible compartments, but can also be assigned to compartments with a narrow target temperature range, for example a cooling compartment, a cold storage compartment or a freezer compartment.
- the invention also relates to a method for determining a ratio of mass flows in a refrigeration device with a refrigerant circuit which has a compressor, a first evaporator group with at least one first evaporator and a high-pressure pipe connected upstream of the first evaporator group, a second evaporator group connected in parallel to the first evaporator group with at least a second evaporator, a low-pressure pipe downstream of the first evaporator group and the second evaporator group, and a suction pipe heat exchanger in which a high-pressure pipe section of the high-pressure pipe and a low-pressure pipe section of the low-pressure pipe are thermally coupled.
- the intake pipe heat exchanger has a group of positions at the inlet and outlet of the low-pressure pipe section, and at the inlet and outlet of the high-pressure pipe section, and the method is carried out with the method steps a) determining temperatures at three positions from the group of positions; b) Determination of a ratio of a mass flow through the high pressure pipe section to a mass flow through the low pressure pipe section using the determined temperatures.
- thermodynamics can be used to determine the ratio of the refrigerant mass flows from the temperatures at the inputs and outputs.
- Another application of thermodynamics can be used to determine the ratio of the refrigerant mass flows from just three temperatures at the inputs and outputs.
- One embodiment of the method contains the further method step of determining temperatures at all positions from the group of positions.
- the fourth temperature can either be determined from a further sensor or be well estimated using thermodynamics.
- the ratio of the mass flow through the high-pressure pipe section to the mass flow through the low-pressure pipe section is determined with the aid of specific heat capacities of a refrigerant, assuming a liquid refrigerant in the high-pressure pipe section and a gaseous refrigerant in the low-pressure pipe section.
- Another embodiment of the method includes the further method step of determining a mass flow through the low-pressure pipe section from a delivery of the compressor.
- the flow rate is a function of the speed, the stroke volume, the degree of delivery and the suction gas density.
- the suction gas density is a function of the evaporation temperature of the evaporator upstream of the suction tube heat exchanger and the temperature at the gas outlet of the suction tube heat exchanger.
- the degree of delivery is a function of the condenser pressure and the evaporator pressure.
- Another embodiment of the method includes the further method step of determining a mass flow through the second evaporator group from the ratio of the mass flow through the high pressure pipe section to the mass flow through the low pressure pipe section and the mass flow through the low pressure pipe section.
- the mass flows are determined from the ratio of the mass flows and the conveyed mass flow. This has the advantage that an otherwise difficult to determine mass flow through the second evaporator group can be absolutely determined.
- Another embodiment of the method contains the further method step of controlling the refrigeration device on the basis of the determined temperatures. If the mass flow through the second evaporator group or the second evaporator is known, this knowledge can be used to better control the second evaporator group or the second evaporator.
- Another embodiment of the method contains the further method step of controlling the refrigeration device based on the ratio of the mass flow through the high-pressure pipe section to the mass flow through the low-pressure pipe section.
- the refrigeration device can thus advantageously be controlled with improved energy efficiency.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a refrigeration device according to the invention
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic representation of the refrigerant circuit of a refrigeration device according to the invention with parallel evaporator branches;
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic representation of an internal heat exchanger of the refrigerant circuit of a refrigeration device according to the invention
- FIG. 4 shows a schematic representation of the refrigerant circuit of a refrigeration device according to the invention with parallel evaporator branches and an evaporator following in series;
- FIG. 5 shows a schematic representation of the refrigerant circuit of a refrigeration device according to the invention with parallel evaporator branches and a further evaporator following in series;
- FIG. 6 shows a flow diagram of an embodiment of the method according to the invention.
- Fig. 1 shows a refrigerator representative of a refrigeration device 10 according to the invention with a cooling compartment door 12 to a cooling compartment 15, a flexible compartment door 13 to a flexible compartment 16 with an extended temperature range and a door 14 to a simple flexible compartment 17.
- the refrigerator is used for example for storing food and comprises a cooling compartment, a flexible compartment with an extended temperature range and a simple flexible compartment as storage chambers. These storage chambers are each cooled by an associated evaporator.
- the refrigeration device 10 also has a display and control unit 18 which controls the refrigeration device.
- the display and control unit 18 has a device 19 for determining a ratio of mass flows.
- the refrigeration device 10 has a refrigerant circuit which can be configured in different configurations of the invention.
- Fig. 2 shows a refrigerant circuit 20 of a refrigeration device according to the invention.
- the refrigerant circuit 20 has a compressor 22, a condenser 24, a first evaporator group 26 with a first evaporator 28 and a further evaporator 30 of the first evaporator group 26, and a second evaporator group 32 parallel to the first evaporator group 26 with a second evaporator 34.
- the compressor is a variable speed speed controlled compressor.
- the compressor is designed to work continuously.
- the first evaporator 28 and the further evaporator 30 of the first evaporator group 26 are arranged parallel to one another.
- An expansion valve 36 which controls the flow of refrigerant into the evaporator 28, is arranged upstream of the first evaporator 28 in the direction of flow.
- An expansion valve 38 which controls the refrigerant outflow from the first evaporator 28, is arranged downstream of the first evaporator 28 in the direction of flow.
- Expansion valves 40 and 42 are also arranged upstream and downstream of the further evaporator 30 of the first evaporator group 26.
- further evaporators of the first evaporator group could be parallel to the first Evaporator can be arranged in order to provide its own evaporator for further storage compartments.
- the evaporators 28, 30 of the first evaporator group 26 are assigned to storage compartments which can be cooled to temperatures below the ambient temperature.
- the first evaporator 28 is assigned to a refrigerated compartment
- the further evaporator 30 of the first evaporator group 26 is assigned to a simple flexible compartment with a variable temperature, so that this compartment can optionally be operated as a further refrigerated compartment, cold storage compartment or freezer compartment.
- the variable temperatures of the evaporators of the first evaporator group 26 are made possible by the expansion valves upstream and downstream of the evaporators, which allow an evaporation pressure of the refrigerant in the evaporator to be set so that the desired temperatures are achieved independently of temperatures in other evaporators.
- the second evaporator 34 In the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, only a single evaporator, the second evaporator 34, is present in the second evaporator group 32.
- An expansion valve 44 which controls the flow of refrigerant into the evaporator 34, is arranged upstream of the second evaporator 34 in the flow direction.
- An expansion valve 46 which controls the refrigerant outflow from the second evaporator 34, is arranged downstream of the second evaporator 34 in the direction of flow.
- the second evaporator 34 of the second evaporator group 32 is assigned to a flexible compartment with an extended temperature range that can be operated in a wide temperature range both below and above the ambient temperature.
- the variable temperatures of the second evaporator 34 are made possible by the expansion valves upstream and downstream of the second evaporator 34, which allow an evaporation pressure of the refrigerant to be set so that the desired temperatures are achieved independently of temperatures in other evaporators.
- the arrangement shown in FIG. 2 with the evaporators 28, 30 and 32 corresponds to an embodiment of the refrigeration device 10 from FIG. 1, the evaporators 28, 30 and 32 being assigned to the storage compartments 15, 17 and 16.
- the refrigerant circuit 20 has a line system with pipelines which connect the described elements of the refrigeration circuit 20 to one another.
- the refrigerant circuit 20 has a high pressure region between the outlet of the compressor 22 and the expansion valves 36, 40 and 44.
- the refrigerant circuit 20 has a low pressure region between the valves 36, 40 and 46 and the input of the compressor 22.
- the assignment of the line area between the expansion valve 44 upstream of the second evaporator 34 and the expansion valve 46 downstream of the second evaporator 34 to the high pressure area or the low pressure area depends on the respective operating state of the second evaporator 34 and the pressure prevailing therein. If the second evaporator 34 is operated at a temperature higher than the ambient temperature, then in this operating state it has the function of a condenser and can be operated at high pressure.
- the refrigerant circuit 20 has a high-pressure pipe 48 which is connected upstream of the evaporators of the first evaporator group.
- the high-pressure pipe 48 ends at the throttles of the evaporators of the first evaporator group, i.e. here at the expansion valves 36 and 40.
- the refrigerant circuit 20 has a low-pressure pipe 49, which is connected downstream of the first evaporator group 26 and the second evaporator group 32.
- the low-pressure pipe 49 runs between the expansion valves 38, 42 and 46 and the inlet of the compressor 22.
- the refrigerant circuit 20 also has an intake pipe heat exchanger 50 in which a high pressure pipe section 52 of the high pressure pipe 48 and a low pressure pipe section 54 of the low pressure pipe 49 are coupled in a thermally conductive manner.
- the intake pipe heat exchanger 50 has four preferred positions for temperature sensors, namely position 56 at the inlet of high pressure pipe section 52, position 58 at the outlet of high pressure pipe section 52, position 60 at the inlet of low pressure pipe section 54 and position 62 at the outlet of low pressure pipe section 54. These positions for temperature sensors are preferred because during operation of the refrigeration device in the heat exchanger 50, due to the heat exchange between positions 56 and 58, a maximum temperature difference of the refrigerant of the high-pressure pipe section 52 occurs and a maximum temperature difference of the refrigerant of the low-pressure pipe section 54 occurs between the positions 60 and 62.
- the refrigerant circuit 20 has a temperature sensor at each of the four positions 56, 58, 60 and 62.
- This embodiment has the advantage that the temperature differences in the high-pressure pipe section 52 and in the low-pressure pipe section 54 can be determined by simple temperature measurements with the temperature sensors.
- the display and control unit 16 of the refrigeration device 10 can use this to determine a ratio of the mass flows in the high-pressure section and the low-pressure section to one another.
- the ratio of the mass flow through the evaporator 34 to the total mass flow can thus be calculated.
- the refrigerant circuit 20 has a temperature sensor at three positions from the group of positions 56, 58, 60 and 62.
- This embodiment has the advantage that one less temperature sensor is required.
- the temperature at the position of the missing temperature sensor can be determined by considerations from thermodynamics. All four temperatures are then known again and the ratios of mass flows can be determined as in the embodiment described above.
- the evaporators of the first evaporator group 26, here the evaporators 28 and 30, are provided exclusively for compartments that are cooled so that the evaporators 28 and 30 are also operated as evaporators.
- the second evaporator group 32 with the single evaporator 34 is provided for flexible compartments with an extended temperature range, such as the flexible compartment 16 from FIG. 1. Since the Evaporator of the second evaporator group 32 can be operated not only as an evaporator but also as a condenser, the refrigerant is fed to the second evaporator group 32 via a branch 64 of the high-pressure pipe 48 which is not involved in an intake pipe heat exchange. Therefore, the second evaporator group can receive refrigerant which is approximately the same as the temperature of the condenser 24.
- the improvement in energy efficiency made possible by the intake pipe heat exchange is utilized in that the refrigerant which is supplied to the first evaporator group is additionally cooled by the intake pipe heat exchange.
- the condenser 24 has a fan 66.
- the fan 66 has the task of avoiding excessively high condenser temperatures and it can cool the condenser 24 if no evaporator in the second evaporator group is operated in a heating mode to achieve a temperature above the ambient temperature in the evaporator or in its flex compartment with an extended temperature range will.
- the evaporators 28, 30 and 34 have fans 68, 70 and 72. These fans can be used both to improve the heat transfer between the evaporator and the respective compartment or to control the humidity in the respective compartment.
- further evaporators of the second evaporator group could be arranged parallel to the second evaporator in order to provide separate evaporators for further storage compartments, in particular flexible compartments with an extended temperature range.
- the evaporators of these compartments are preferably arranged parallel to the second evaporator 34, each with an expansion valve in front of and an expansion valve after each evaporator.
- Fig. 3 shows schematically the intake pipe heat exchanger 50, also called the inner heat exchanger or intake pipe heat exchanger, from Fig. 3 with the high pressure pipe section 52 of the high pressure pipe 48 and the low pressure pipe section 54 of the low pressure pipe 49.
- the direction of flow of the refrigerant is indicated by arrows 74 and 76 .
- the intake pipe heat exchanger 50 has four preferred positions for temperature sensors, namely on the outside of the pipe of the respective pipe section, position 56 at the inlet of high pressure pipe section 52, position 58 at the outlet of high pressure pipe section 52, position 60 at the inlet of low pressure pipe section 54 and position 62 at the outlet of the low-pressure pipe section 54.
- a coordinate line 77 is given by way of example, with end points 78 and 79 of a route over which a heat exchanger takes place in the intake manifold heat exchanger 50. With the aid of the coordinate line 77, a temperature profile within the intake manifold heat exchanger 50 can be determined with the aid of thermodynamics.
- FIG. 4 schematically shows a refrigerant circuit 80 of a refrigeration device of an embodiment of the invention in an embodiment with a different arrangement of evaporators compared to the embodiment in FIG. 2. Therefore, the differences from FIG. 2 are essentially described.
- the first evaporator group 26 ′ only has the first evaporator 28 and the second evaporator group 32 only has the second evaporator 34.
- the expansion valves already described are again arranged upstream and downstream of the evaporators 28, 34.
- an intake pipe heat exchanger 50 ' is arranged at the same point with respect to the first evaporator group.
- the refrigerant circuit has a third evaporator 82 between the first and second evaporator groups 26 ', 32 arranged in parallel and the low-pressure pipe 49'.
- the third evaporator 82 follows the evaporators 28, 34 of the parallel evaporator groups 26 ', 32 in series.
- the low-pressure pipe 49 ' runs from the third evaporator 82 to the compressor 22.
- the refrigerant circuit 80 has an optional further internal heat exchanger 84 in which a further pipe section 81 of the low-pressure pipe 49 ′ and a refrigerant pipe section 83 are coupled in a thermally conductive manner at the outlet of the first evaporator 28.
- the further internal heat exchanger 84 does not provide any information about a mass flow distribution that the refrigerant is two-phase at the outlet of the evaporator 28.
- the suction gas then sees an isothermal heat source, so to speak, in the further inner heat exchanger 84.
- the refrigerant circuit 80 is suitable for a refrigeration device 10 according to FIG. 1.
- the evaporator 28 is in turn a cooling compartment 15
- the evaporator 34 is a flexible compartment with an extended temperature range 16
- the evaporator 82 is a simple flexible compartment, which can be used, for example, as a cold storage compartment or can be operated as a freezer compartment.
- the evaporator 82 has a fan 85.
- the refrigerant circuit 80 advantageously uses the low suction pressure of the compressor 22 for a serially arranged evaporator 82 to which a particularly cold compartment is assigned.
- the evaporator 82 is assigned to a cold compartment, preferably a freezer compartment, and has a temperature sensor 86.
- the refrigerant circuit 80 has the following advantage. At the location of the temperature sensor 86, temperature and pressure are known for the entire refrigerant mass flow, and from this the suction gas density there can be determined with a temperature sensor at the end of the low-pressure pipe section, position 62 '. This in turn enables the absolute total mass flow to be determined with the aid of the compressor speed via the delivery of the compressor.
- An embodiment of the invention without the further inner heat exchanger 84 also makes it possible that instead of a temperature sensor at the input of the Low-pressure pipe section 54 'at position 60', the temperature sensor 86 is used to determine the temperature at the inlet of the low-pressure pipe section 54 '.
- FIG. 5 shows a refrigerant circuit in a further embodiment which is based on the embodiment shown in FIG.
- a fourth evaporator 88 has now been added in a serial arrangement downstream of the third evaporator 82 '.
- the third evaporator 82 ' has a temperature sensor 86'.
- the third evaporator 82 ' has a fan 85' and the fourth evaporator 88 has a fan 90.
- the evaporator 86 ' is operated as a freezer compartment evaporator for supplying a freezer compartment and the added evaporator 88 is operated as an evaporator for a cold storage compartment or a refrigerated compartment.
- the control of the refrigeration device with this refrigerant circuit takes place in such a way that the refrigerant supplied to the evaporator 86 'essentially evaporates in the evaporator 86' and the following evaporator 88 is cooled by cold gaseous refrigerant.
- the temperature sensor 86 ' is again in the coldest compartment, so the temperature and evaporation pressure can be determined at its position based on the temperature there and with this information, the suction gas density there can be determined with a temperature sensor at the end of the low-pressure pipe section, position 62'. This in turn enables the absolute total mass flow to be determined with the aid of the compressor speed via the delivery of the compressor.
- FIG. 6 shows a flow diagram 100 of an embodiment of the method according to the invention for determining a ratio of mass flows in a refrigeration device.
- the refrigeration device for example refrigeration device ten from FIG. 1, has a refrigerant circuit, for example the refrigerant circuit 20 from FIG. 2 or the refrigerant circuit 80 from FIG.
- the refrigerant circuit 20, 80 has a compressor 22, a first evaporator group 26, 26 'with at least one first evaporator 28 and with a high pressure pipe 48 connected upstream of the first evaporator group 26, 26', a second evaporator group 32 connected in parallel to the first evaporator group 26, 26 'with at least one second evaporator 34, one of the first evaporator groups 26, 26' and the second evaporator group 32 downstream low-pressure pipe 49, 49 ', and a suction pipe heat exchanger 50, 50' in which a high-pressure pipe section 52, 52 'of the high-pressure pipe 48 and a low-pressure pipe section 54, 54' of the low-pressure pipe 49, 49 'are thermally coupled .
- the intake manifold heat exchanger has a group of positions 60, 60 '; 62, 62 '; 56, 56 '; 58, 58 'at the inlet and at the outlet of the low-pressure pipe section, and at the inlet and at the outlet of the high-pressure pipe section.
- the method has the method steps: a) determination 102 of temperatures at three positions from the group of positions; b) Determination 104 of a ratio of a mass flow rate flowing through the high pressure pipe section to a mass flow rate flowing through the low pressure pipe section using the determined temperatures.
- One embodiment of the method contains, instead of method step a), method step a ′) determination 102 of temperatures at all positions from the group of positions.
- a temperature at one of the positions on the intake manifold heat exchanger is usually determined by a temperature sensor at the position on the intake manifold heat exchanger.
- the temperature can also be determined with a temperature sensor at an adjacent position in the refrigerant circuit on the intake manifold outside the intake manifold heat exchanger, if there is no heat transfer from or to the intake manifold between the two positions. Then the assumption is justified that the same temperature prevails at both positions.
- FIG. 7 shows a flow diagram 110 of a further embodiment with configurations of the method according to the invention.
- the method steps that are added in relation to FIG. 6 are each optional per se and can be combined.
- the process begins again with process step a) determination 102 of temperatures at three positions from the group of positions; This is followed by method step c) determination 112 of a mass flow through the low-pressure pipe section from a delivery of the compressor.
- step d) determination 114 of a mass flow through the second evaporator group takes place from the ratio of the mass flow through the high pressure pipe section to the mass flow through the low pressure pipe section.
- the entire mass flow of refrigerant required by the compressor 22 flows through the low-pressure pipe section 52 of the intake pipe heat exchanger 50. The total mass flow can then be determined from the delivery of the compressor 22.
- control 116 of refrigeration device 10 takes place on the basis of the determined temperatures.
- e ') control 118 of refrigeration device 10 takes place on the basis of the ratio of the mass flow through the high-pressure pipe section to the mass flow through the low-pressure pipe section.
- the ratio of the mass flow through the high pressure section to the mass flow through the low pressure section is determined with the aid of the temperatures from method step a).
- refrigerant circuit 22 compressor 24 condenser 26, 26 'first evaporator group 28 first evaporator 30 further evaporator 32 second evaporator group 34 second evaporator 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 expansion valves 48 high pressure pipe
- suction pipe heat exchanger 52 50, 50 'suction pipe heat exchanger 52, 52' high pressure pipe section 54, 54 'low pressure pipe section 56, 56', 58, 58 ', 60, 60', 62, 62 'positions on suction pipe heat exchanger 64 branch of high pressure pipe 66, 68, 70 , 72 fans 74, 76 arrows 77 coordinate line 78, 79 end points 80 refrigerant circuit 81 further pipe section 82, 82 'third evaporator
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