scholarly journals Environmental tests of vapor compression heat pump for space applications

2020 ◽  
pp. 240-240
Author(s):  
Xudong Ma ◽  
Rui Ma ◽  
Yilin Ye ◽  
Suying Yan ◽  
Feng Wang ◽  
...  

Heat pumps are needed to provide a suitable temperature for both people and equipment in spacecraft. This paper reports on work designed to see if vapor compression heat pumps, in particular, can be expected to function normally in space. A vapor compression heat pump was built and tested under conditions of high temperature (70?C), low temperature (0?C), and near-vacuum (10-4 Pa). It was found that the coefficient of performance of this heat pump was 2.99 at both high and low temperatures, and was 2.1 under near vacuum conditions. The results suggest that vapor compression heat pumps are suitable for use in space.

2021 ◽  
Vol 887 ◽  
pp. 651-656
Author(s):  
Marina V. Polonik

On the basis of previously accumulated irreversible deformations, and, consequently, residual stresses, the process of removing residual stresses in metal workpieces under the action of low and high temperatures is simulated. Boundary value problems are solved and here are described regularities that are responsible for removing residual stresses for processing modes: high-temperature heating - cooling, high-temperature heating - holding - cooling, low-temperature heating - holding - cooling. The holding stage is modeled, taking into account the creep properties of materials under Norton creep conditions. According to the dependences of the obtained exact solutions, it is shown that it is the holding process that leads to the relaxation of residual stresses.


2012 ◽  
Vol 170-173 ◽  
pp. 2550-2553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Hui Zhou ◽  
Shi Wei Feng ◽  
Si Qi Cui ◽  
Yin Liu

A heat pump is a kind of energy saving equipment. It can effectively improve the grade of low temperature renewable and waste energy. Because of the increasing demands for higher temperature energy in many industrial processes and other fields, the development and research of high temperature heat pumps have been becoming more and more pressing and significant. This paper briefly summarizes the development status in two aspects: the development of working fluids and system features and characteristics of different cycle types.


1989 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Okumura ◽  
K. Miki ◽  
K. Sakamoto ◽  
T. Sakamoto ◽  
S. Misawa ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTPhotoemission spectra (XPS and UPS) of As-covered Si (001) surfaces prepared at high (>600ºC) and low (<450ºC) temperatures and GaAs epilayers subsequently grown on them were measured without exposing to air. It was found that the surface electronic structures of As/Si prepared at the low temperature are different from those of the high temperature sample, the spectra of which can be interpreted as a symmetric dimer model. Differences were also observed between the GaAs epilayers on the As—covered Si surfaces prepared at the high and low temperatures. The temperature dependence of the surface and interface structures are discussed.


2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (19) ◽  
pp. 6053-6059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisashi Anbutsu ◽  
Shunsuke Goto ◽  
Takema Fukatsu

ABSTRACT We investigated the vertical transmission, reproductive phenotype, and infection density of a male-killing Spiroplasma symbiont in two Drosophila species under physiological high and low temperatures through successive host generations. In both the native host Drosophila nebulosa and the nonnative host Drosophila melanogaster, the symbiont infection and the male-killing phenotype were stably maintained at 25�C, rapidly lost at 18�C, and gradually lost at 28�C. In the nonnative host, both the high and low temperatures significantly suppressed the infection density of the spiroplasma. In the native host, by contrast, the low temperature suppressed the infection density of the spiroplasma whereas the high temperature had little effect on the infection density. These results suggested that the low temperature suppresses both the infection density and the vertical transmission of the spiroplasma whereas the high temperature suppresses the vertical transmission preferentially. The spiroplasma density was consistently higher in the native host than in the nonnative host, suggesting that the host genotype may affect the infection density of the symbiont. The temperature- and genotype-dependent instability of the symbiont infection highlights a complex genotype-by-genotype-by-environment interaction and may be relevant to the low infection frequencies of the male-killing spiroplasmas in natural Drosophila populations.


2012 ◽  
Vol 249-250 ◽  
pp. 278-283
Author(s):  
Kyoung Hoon Kim ◽  
Hyung Jong Ko ◽  
Se Woong Kim

In this study, thermodynamic performances of ammonia-water Rankine (AWR) cycle and regenerative Rankine (AWRR) cycle are comparatively investigated. Special attention is focused on the effects of ammonia concentration and turbine inlet pressure on the performance of system using heat sources of high temperature of 300 oC and low temperature of 150 oC. The behavior of important system variables including mass flow ratio of working fluid, net work production, and thermal efficiency are closely examined. Results show that performance characteristics for heat sources of high and low temperatures are quite different each other. For the high-temperature source, the thermal efficiency has a minimum in AWR system while it has a maximum in AWRR with respect to ammonia concentration in the range of 65% to 75%. For low-temperature source, however, the thermal efficiency decreases with ammonia concentration in the range of ammonia concentration higher than 95% for both AWR system and AWRR system and the effect of regenerator is negligible.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 3269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongbao Liu ◽  
Fengfei Lou ◽  
Xin Qi ◽  
Yiyao Shen

Air source heat pumps (ASHPs) are widely recognized as energy-saving and environmentally friendly heating and air-conditioning equipment with broad applications. However, when conventional ASHPs are operated at a low ambient temperature, they suffer from problems such as high discharge temperature and low heating efficiency. To address these problems, this study designed a new type of dual evaporator combined with a compressor casing thermal storage heat pump system (DE-CCTS) on the basis of a low-temperature air source heat pump water heater with enhanced vapor injection (EVI). The proposed DE-CCTS used thermal storage phase change material (PCM), which was filled in the secondary evaporator (the thermal storage heat exchanger), to recover the waste heat of the compressor casing. Unlike that in the original system under different ambient temperatures, the suction temperature increased by 0.1–1 °C, the discharge temperature decreased by 0.1–0.5 °C, and the coefficient of performance (COP) of DE-CCTS increased by 0.85–4.72% under the proposed system. These effects were especially evident at low temperatures.


2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
O. Shapoval ◽  
N.   Chepurna ◽  
M. Kirichenko

Currently, air-to-water heat pumps are more widely used, which due to the high coefficient of performance reduce energy consumption and negative impact on the environment. They decrease the dependency on costs of energy resources. The work is devoted to solving the urgent problem of improving the efficiency of air heat pumps at low temperature of outdoor air in winter. One of the main problems of an air heat pump is the reduction of productivity when the outdoor air temperature decreases in winter. In this paper, the effectiveness of LG Therma V air-to-water heat pump to provide apartments with heating and hot water supply was analyzed. The heat pump is reversive, which can cool or heat a heat carrier. A four-way valve swithes the coolant flows between air exchangers. On the basis of the obtained results, plots of effectivness of the heat pump dependent on outdoor air temperature are built. It is shown that the effectiveness of the heat pump significantly depends not only on the outside temperature but also on the water temperature at the outlet of the heat pump. The use of heat pumps with a high coefficient of performance can significantly reduce energy costs. The most effective are low-temperature heating systems, in which the water temperature does not exceed 45 °C. The example is floor heating, which requires very low temperature of the floor surface – up to 30 °C. At outdoor air temperature not less than milnus 7 °C the heat pump is effective at higher temperature off heat carrier at output – up to 55 °C. To provide the uninterrupted heat supply, an additional air heater is included. It covers heat load during defrosting and very low outdoor air temperature. On the basis of the conducted researches, the directions of the further experimental and field researches are planned.


Author(s):  
Dalila Abbaz ◽  
Abla Chaker ◽  
Mahmoud Bourouis

Abstract Cascade adsorption refrigeration technology using high-temperature driving heat is a very promising option for low-temperature cooling applications due to the large temperature difference between the heat source and the cold distributed. The present work carried out a feasibility and parametric study in order to analyze the functioning of a cascading adsorption cycle using the working pair zeolite/ammonia in beds operating at high temperatures and activated carbon/ammonia in those operating at low temperatures. At the nominal thermal conditions, namely, heating, condensing, and evaporating temperatures of 280 °C, 35 °C, and (−5) °C, respectively, the coefficient of performance (COP) and the specific refrigerating capacity (SCP) of the cycle were 0.53 and 67.1 W/kg. When the driving temperature is varied from 260 °C to 320 °C, the COP increases by 57% and the SCP by 36%. The performance of the cascading adsorption cycle at negative evaporating temperatures is very satisfactory.


2012 ◽  
Vol 468-471 ◽  
pp. 1313-1321
Author(s):  
Shi Jie Liu ◽  
Wen Sheng Yu ◽  
Wu Chen

Some suggestions for developing new working fluids for moderate-high-temperature heat pump with excellent thermal and environmental performance were given firstly in this paper. The theoretical and experimental performance analysis of new-developed working fluids M1-M6 was carried out. The theoretical performance results showed that M1-M6 had high heating efficiency and GWP (Global Warming Potential) of M2 was less than 150. The experimental results showed that M5 had higher thermal efficiency than other two working fluids under same working condition. At the ambient temperature respectively of 30 Centigrade Degree and 40 Centigrade Degree, it took 70 and 65 minutes by the heat pump charged with M5 as working fluid to heat 100 liters of water respectively from 30 Centigrade Degree to 80 Centigrade Degree. Meanwhile the system’s COP (Coefficient of Performance) was respectively 2.9 and 3.0.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Kauko ◽  
Daniel Rohde ◽  
Armin Hafner

District heating enables an economical use of energy sources that would otherwise be wasted to cover the heating demands of buildings in urban areas. For efficient utilization of local waste heat and renewable heat sources, low distribution temperatures are of crucial importance. This study evaluates a local heating network being planned for a new building area in Trondheim, Norway, with waste heat available from a nearby ice skating rink. Two alternative supply temperature levels have been evaluated with dynamic simulations: low temperature (40 °C), with direct utilization of waste heat and decentralized domestic hot water (DHW) production using heat pumps; and medium temperature (70 °C), applying a centralized heat pump to lift the temperature of the waste heat. The local network will be connected to the primary district heating network to cover the remaining heat demand. The simulation results show that with a medium temperature supply, the peak power demand is up to three times higher than with a low temperature supply. This results from the fact that the centralized heat pump lifts the temperature for the entire network, including space and DHW heating demands. With a low temperature supply, heat pumps are applied only for DHW production, which enables a low and even electricity demand. On the other hand, with a low temperature supply, the district heating demand is high in the wintertime, in particular if the waste heat temperature is low. The choice of a suitable supply temperature level for a local heating network is hence strongly dependent on the temperature of the available waste heat, but also on the costs and emissions related to the production of district heating and electricity in the different seasons.


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