What is an R-410A PT chart?
An R-410A PT chart lists the pressure R-410A boils and condenses at for each temperature. At 40°F that's 118.4 psig on the vapor (dew) side and 118.8 psig on the liquid (bubble) side, only 0.4 psi apart because its glide is so small. You'll also see R-410A sold as Puron (Carrier's name for it), Freon 410A, Forane 410A, Genetron AZ-20 and Klea 410A.
Anywhere liquid and vapor are together in a system, like inside the evaporator and condenser coils, the pressure and temperature are locked together, so one tells you the other. On the job, the chart turns gauge readings into saturation temperatures: the suction pressure gives the temperature the evaporator is boiling at, and the liquid line pressure gives the temperature the condenser is condensing at. Compare those with your line temperatures and you have superheat and subcooling.
R-410A is a blend of R-32 and R-125, and it's nonflammable (safety class A1). It replaced R-22 in new home air conditioners and heat pumps, and it's now being replaced itself by R-454B and R-32 in new equipment.
How it's calculated
Absolute pressure = gauge pressure + 14.696 psi (101.325 kPa, one standard atmosphere) Saturation data: R-410A: CoolProp 8.0.0, R410A Between table points (every 0.5 °C): ln(pressure) is interpolated linearly in 1 ÷ absolute temperature Blends have separate liquid (bubble) and vapor (dew) curves Glide = dew temperature − bubble temperature at the same pressure Printed chart rows are solved by CoolProp at each exact temperature
Sources
- Bell, Wronski, Quoilin & Lemort (2014), "Pure and Pseudo-pure Fluid Thermophysical Property Evaluation and the Open-Source Thermophysical Property Library CoolProp", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 53(6)
- Lemmon (2003), "Pseudo-Pure Fluid Equations of State for the Refrigerant Blends R-410A, R-404A, R-507A, and R-407C", International Journal of Thermophysics 24(4)
- Arkema, Forane 410A Thermodynamic Properties (NIST REFPROP 9.0)
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Checked by Paul Williams · Updated
Questions
What is the R-410A pressure at 40°F?
At 40°F, R-410A saturates at 118.4 psig on the vapor (dew) side and 118.8 psig on the liquid (bubble) side. At 100°F it's 317.6 psig vapor and 318.5 psig liquid.
Why are there two columns for R-410A?
R-410A is a blend of R-32 and R-125, 50/50 by weight. Blends boil over a small temperature range called glide, so the liquid and vapor pressures differ. For R-410A the glide is only about 0.2°F, so the two columns stay within about 1 psi of each other. Use the vapor column for superheat and the liquid column for subcooling.
How accurate is this chart?
It comes from NIST's equation of state for R-410A (Lemmon, 2003) through CoolProp. It matches Arkema's Forane 410A tables, which use NIST REFPROP, to within 0.15 psi on every row from -40 to 150°F.
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