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The terms and definitions included in this glossary were taken from "ASHRAE Terminology of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration".
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compressor refrigerating effectrate of heat removal by the refriger­ant assigned to the compres­sor in a refrigerating system. This is equal to the product of the mass rate of refrigerant flow produ­ced by the compressor and the difference in specif­ic enthal­pies of the refrigerant vapor at its thermodynamic state entering the compressor and refrigerant liquid at saturation temperature cor­responding to the pressure of the vapor leaving the compressor
 





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