Lynton Mogridge:
It sounds like you are running a sub-critical two phase refrigeration cycle. This is similar to your domestic refrigerator. If you look up refrigeration cycle on Wikepedia it will give you the details and the normal performance measure COP (coefficient of performance), more detail in Cengel and Boles Chapter 10.
Lynton.
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