Cascade Drawings........

[Gary Lloyd]

Originally posted by chilly1
A subcooler is an HX used for lowering the temperature of the liquidline and raising the temperature of the suctionline in other words cooling the superheated gas/liquid in the liquid line..
Used to make the system more effecient.

What you are describing is a subcooler. A desuperheater lowers superheat, which this does not. This in fact adds superheat to the suction vapor. The vapor/liquid mixture in the liquid line is subcooled, not superheated.


Thx Gary missed the error...