Carbon Dioxide (CO2) has proven its efficiency as a working medium for power and cooling productions in
vehicles and refrigerated trucks driven by engine exhaust gases. The main drawbacks of this system are the high/
low critical pressure/temperature of the CO2 which leads to high compressor power and low efficiency. In the
present paper two modifications by insertion of two heat exchangers in bottom and top CO2 compound cycles
driven by engine exhaust gas are proposed to overcome on these drawbacks. Energy and exergy analysis are used
to evaluate and compare their performances with the basic system. The results show that (i) the feasibility of
using the proposed systems was justified and has proven potentials of energy and fuel consumption saving
compared to traditional engine + stand-alone refrigerator, (ii) proposed modifications on the basic system
(System I) by incorporated heat exchangers (System II and System III) has proven its potential for higher energy
efficiency and refrigeration capacity and can recover about 18.33%, 20.38% and 19.22% of the energy of the
exhaust gases for driven the compound CO2 cycle, (iii) parametric, comparison and optimization studies, showed
that the proposed system (system II) has the highest refrigeration capacity, energy efficiency and fuel consumption
cost saving with optimal values of 20.4%, 0.1819 kg/kWh, 7.1%, respectively. |
