ENG 320 – Mass Balances for Industrial Refrigeration Systems

Learn the equations that govern refrigerant flow through complex systems.

Focuses on mass balance principles applied to industrial ammonia refrigeration systems.

Overview

Understanding how refrigerant mass flows through a system is essential for system design, analysis, and troubleshooting. Mass balances provide a systematic way to account for where refrigerant enters, leaves, and accumulates within industrial refrigeration systems.

This course teaches the principles of mass balance and applies them to evaporators, vessels, and multi-temperature systems. Students develop equations that can be used across a wide range of system configurations.

Ideal For

• Engineers analyzing refrigeration system performance
• Design engineers working with complex systems
• Advanced students moving beyond fundamentals

Core Learning Objectives

• Apply mass balance principles to refrigeration systems
• Develop mass balance equations for system components
• Analyze refrigerant flow in single and multi-temperature systems

Topics

• Introduction to Mass Balances
• Why Mass Balance Matters
• Evaporator Mass Balances
• Vessel Mass Balances
• Single-Temperature Systems
• Multi-Temperature Applications