Electrical Conductivity of Concentrated LiBr Ethylene-Glycol and Water ternary system

LiBr/H2O as working pair in absorption chiller is widely used in the absorption refrigeration system, and the electrical conductivity is used as secondary properties as an empirical relation with temperature and concentration as a simple method to measure the concentration. In this paper, another working pair Carrol/H2O is chosen, more suitable for air-cooled cycles. Carrol contains ethylene glycol and LiBr with a mass ratio at 4.5:1 and has advantages of low risk of crystallization and reduce the LiBr charge. The working range for the LiBr/H2O solution is temperature 25-80°C, at concentration 50–64%, in term of Carrol/H2O system, the temperature range is 25-80°C, concentration range is 50%-75%. The electrical conductivity will be measured according to the working range and a typical used solution extracted from an absorption chiller prototype will also be measured to compare with the experimental result.
The author J.Zheng and Y.Liu both hold a scholarship from China Scholarship Council for PhD at the University of Polytechnique Catalunya.
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