Pengaruh Aplikasi Refrigeran Hidrokarbon Terhadap Performansi Mobile Air Conditioning

Abstract

Refrigeration system this day has been developed fastly in advance technology manner. In general this system is developed to preserve food and to refresh the air condition. One of the usage of this system for Mobile Air Conditioning (MAC). The Global warming issues then become the limitation of the usage of refrigerant system of R-134a. As the replacement, retrofit process is conducted to change to refrigerant Hydrocarbon (HC) type. This research has objective to find the performance of those two types refrigerants. The test was conducted by using testing tool from MAC system that had been modified with control addition equipments. The result of the test toward testing tool of Mobile Air Conditioning, the mass number of refrigerant in full level condition of HC-134 is less than R-134a. The mass of R-134a was 420 gram while HC-134 was 240 gram. Beside the usage of refrigerant is lesser than normal condition, the aplication of HC-134 can give coeffcient of performance (COP) higher value than R-134a.