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You are on a factory visit to a plantfor food products. Rushing through the factory, you hear that avapor compression cycle with refrigerant HFC-134a as the workingfluid is being used. You see that they use a throttle valve as partof the system and that one part of the cycle is running at 0.32 MPaand another part of the cycle is running at 1.6 MPa. If thecompressor is 80% efficient and throttle, condenser, and evaporatorare working ideally in a typical vapor compression cycle,

a)Calculate the coefficient of performance

b)Calculate the percentage of vapor present in the inlet to theevaporator

c)Calculate heat removal rate in the evaporator

d)Is this vapor compression cycle being used for freezingfood/water? Explain why or why not.

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