Working fluid containing chlorotetrafluoroethane
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuji Yoshida, Masami Funakura, Kazuo Nakatani, Minoru Tagashira
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Abstract
A working fluid containing chlorotetrafluoroethane and at least two fluorinated hydrocarbons having a boiling point of not higher than -40.degree. C. under atmospheric pressure selected from the group consisting of methane derivatives and ethane derivatives which consist of one or two carbon atoms, hydrogen atoms and fluorine atoms, which has very small influence on the ozone layer in the stratosphere and decreased flammability and is suitable as a substitute working fluid for chlorodifluoromethane.
Claims8
A working fluid consisting of 17 to 90% by weight of chlorotetrafluoroethane, 1 to 85% by weight of 1,1,1-trifluoroethane, and one fluorinated hydrocarbon having a boiling point not higher than -40.degree. C. under atmospheric pressure, selected from the group consisting of 1 to 55% by weight of trifluoromethane, 1 to 65% by weight of difluoromethane and 1 to 85% by weight of pentafluoroethane, which working fluid has a composition in a range between phase equilibrium lines in a triangular coordinate which are obtained when 0.degree. C. is specified as a temperature and the same vapor pressure as that of chlorodifluoromethane at 0.degree. C. is specified as a vapor pressure or a range between phase equilibrium lines in a triangular coordinate which are obtained when 50.degree. C. is specified as a temperature and the same vapor pressure as that of chlorodifluoromethane at 50.degree. C. is specified as a vapor pressure.
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