Owing
to the worse greenhouse gas effect, the global warming problem
is becoming more and more serious. Exploring suitable refrigerants
to replace high-GWP HFCs is currently one of the key issues of concern
in the refrigeration field. Among alternatives, trans-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (R-1233zd(E)) is attracting a lot of fashionable attention in the
refrigeration and air conditioning industry. To increase the database
of solubility and enthalpy for R-1233zd(E) with polyol ester (POE) and polyalkylene glycol (PAG) oils, as
well as reveal the oil retention influence on the evaporator in a
vapor compression refrigeration system using R-1233zd(E), the miscibility and solubility behaviors were investigated
for R-1233zd(E) with POE75, POE85,
and PAG68 oils using an isochoric method between 298.15 and 343.15
K. The non-random two liquid (NRTL) equation was applied to correlate
and predict the solubility. Pressure–enthalpy–vapor
quality (p–h–X) diagrams were presented
for R-1233zd(E) at oil circulation
mass fractions (C
g) of 2 and 4%. Meanwhile,
the differences were analyzed for the enthalpy change and nonevaporated
quantity.