1.1 Literature Survey
To provide air cooling for the driver of a truck is never given importance in India, the basic reason is the use of available methods of air cooling affects the fuel consumption and the initial cost of the truck. For automobile air conditioning normally vapour compression refrigeration cycle is used. The cycle run on engine power and consumes around 10% of the total power produced by the engine and thereby increases the fuel consumption shown by Lambart and Jones, 2006 [2]. Till date, 1 TR VAR system has been neither built practically nor simulated for analyzing the performance of the system because of its low COP (Jakob et al, 2007) [3]. Due to this reason, no information is available regarding the performance of 1 TR VAR system. The work carried out in this project holds significance not only because it shows the practicability of fabricating a 1 TR VAR system for providing cabin cooling of truck by using engine exhaust but also it makes available the information about the performance of such a system under different operating conditions.