In view of the facts that traditional refrigerants may cause some problems
e.g.
hydroflurocarbon results in environmental problems; ammonia water has toxicity and needs distillation; lithium bromide-water solution has the problems of corrosion and crystallization and its refrigeration temperature is relatively high etc.
a new absorption refrigeration working pair has been developed. To study the performances of this absorption refrigeration system
NRTL model and PR state equation are combined using WS mixing rule as the link to develop a G
E
-EOS thermodynamic model in the paper. The molar excess e
nthalpies of the binary solution were obtained at high pressure and temperature. The calculation results showed that the excess molar enthalpies in the binary solution are negative when the CO
2
mole fraction in the liquid phase is higher than 0.43
so the mixing process of CO
2
and [emim
]
[Tf
2
N
]
is exothermic
which indicates that the binary solution has the basic properties of absorption refrigeration working pair. Meanwhile
experimental study was performed using an [emim
]
[Tf
2
N
]
absorption refrigeration system. The experimental results showed that the relative deviations were 16.3%
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