Thermophysical Properties of Refrigerants

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Abayomi Shofowora
Abayomi Shofowora on 2 Feb 2020
Answered: Prasanna on 13 Sep 2024
How do I get the thermophysical properties of refrigerant from Matlab/Simulink or Simcape Fluids. Am aware that the data for water/steam is the default.
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Prasanna
Prasanna on 13 Sep 2024
Hi Abayomi,
MATLAB and Simulink, along with Simscape Fluids, provide tools for modelling fluid systems, but accessing detailed thermophysical properties for specific refrigerants directly within these environments can be a bit more complex than for water/steam, which is often directly supported.
Using blocks present in the Simscape foundational library allows you to model systems involving refrigerants and have built in property tables for common refrigerants. Blocks like the ‘Two phase fluid properties (2P)’ block in Simscape can be configured for different refrigerants.
For non-native refrigerants, you can use external libraries like coolprop which is an open source thermophysical properties library with a MATLAB wrapper which can be used.
Therefore, By creating custom data tables/block models using the ‘Two-Phase Fluid Properties (2P)‘ block, you can effectively incorporate refrigerant properties into your simulations. For more information on the same, you can refer to the following documentations:
Hope this helps!

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