ENG 350 – Refrigeration System Analysis

Analyze, evaluate, and compare industrial refrigeration system designs using engineering methods.

Focuses on thermodynamic and mass‑balance analysis of industrial ammonia refrigeration systems.

Overview

Designing or evaluating an industrial refrigeration system requires more than understanding individual components. Engineers must be able to analyze how the entire system behaves as a thermodynamic and mass‑flow network.

This course introduces system‑level analysis techniques used to evaluate capacity, mass flow, and energy consumption. Students apply mass balances, thermodynamic relationships, and performance calculations to single‑stage, economized, multistage, cascade, and transcritical refrigeration systems.

Ideal For

• Design engineers working with industrial refrigeration systems
• Engineers evaluating system performance or modifications
• Advanced students completing the ENG refrigeration curriculum

Core Learning Objectives

• Apply thermodynamic principles to full refrigeration systems
• Perform mass‑balance analysis on industrial refrigeration layouts
• Evaluate and compare system configurations and compression strategies

Topics

• Thermodynamic Review
• Pressure‑Enthalpy Charts
• Compression Energy Analysis
• Mass Balances for Refrigeration Systems
• Single‑Stage Systems
• Economized Compression
• Multistage Systems
• Cascade Systems
• Transcritical Refrigeration Systems