F25B2313/0316

REFRIGERATING MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR

This refrigerating machine is equipped with: a turbocompressor which compresses a refrigerant; a condenser which is equipped with one or more pipe groups configured from a plurality of heat transfer pipes through which cooling water flows, and condenses the refrigerant compressed by the turbocompressor; an expansion valve which causes the refrigerant condensed by the condenser to expand; an evaporator which causes the refrigerant expanded by the expansion valve to evaporate; a temperature sensor which detects cooling water exit temperature, which is the temperature of the cooling water flowing from at least one of the heat transfer pipes constituting the pipe group(s); and a control unit which determines, on the basis of the detection temperature of the temperature sensor, air bleeding start conditions for starting an air bleeding operation to bleed and discharge air to the outside.

HEAT PUMP CYCLE
20180201094 · 2018-07-19 ·

A heat pump cycle includes a first usage side heat exchanger that heats a target fluid via heat exchange with refrigerant discharged from a compressor. The refrigerant flowing out of the first usage side heat exchanger is reduced in pressure by a first pressure reducing unit, and then separated into gas and liquid by a gas-liquid separation unit. The separated gas-phase refrigerant flows toward an intermediate-pressure port of the compressor. The separated liquid-phase refrigerant is reduced in pressure by a second pressure reducing unit. An additional heat exchanger performs heat exchange between the refrigerant flowing from the second pressure reducing unit and a heat medium, and allows the refrigerant to flow toward an intake port of the compressor. A second usage side heat exchanger performs heat exchange between the separated liquid-phase refrigerant and a counterpart fluid, and allows the refrigerant to flow toward the second pressure reducing unit.