scholarly journals Fault Detection Algorithm for Multiple-Simultaneous Refrigerant Charge and Secondary Fluid Flow Rate Faults in Heat Pumps

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3877
Author(s):  
Samuel Boahen ◽  
Kwesi Mensah ◽  
Selorm Kwaku Anka ◽  
Kwang Ho Lee ◽  
Jong Min Choi
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Heat Pump ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Heat Pumps ◽  
Fluid Flow Rate ◽  
Heat Pump Unit ◽  
Secondary Fluid

The detection and diagnosis of faults is becoming necessary in ensuring energy savings in heat pump units. Faults can exist independently or simultaneously in heat pumps at the refrigerant side and secondary fluid flow loops. In this work, we discuss the effects that simultaneous refrigerant charge faults and faults associated with the flow rate of secondary fluids have on the performance of a heat pump operating in summer season and we developed a correlation to detect and diagnose these faults using multiple linear regression. The faults considered include simultaneous refrigerant charge and indoor heat exchanger secondary fluid flow rate faults (IFRFs), simultaneous refrigerant charge and outdoor heat exchanger secondary fluid flow rate faults (OFRFs) and simultaneous refrigerant charge, IFRF and OFRF. The occurrence of simultaneous refrigerant charge fault, IFRF and OFRF caused up to a 5.7% and 8% decrease in cooling capacity compared to simultaneous refrigerant charge and indoor heat exchanger secondary fluid flow rate faults, and simultaneous refrigerant charge and outdoor heat exchanger secondary fluid flow rate faults, respectively. Simultaneous refrigerant charge fault, IFRF and OFRF resulted in up to an 11.6% and 5.9% decrease in COP of the heat pump unit compared to simultaneous refrigerant charge fault and IFRF, and simultaneous refrigerant charge fault and OFRF, respectively. The developed FDD correlations accurately predicted the simultaneous refrigerant charge and faults in the flow rate of the secondary fluid within an error margin of 7.7%.

scholarly journals Fault Detection Methodology for Secondary Fluid Flow Rate in a Heat Pump Unit

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2974
Author(s):  
Samuel Boahen ◽  
Kwesi Mensah ◽  
Yujin Nam ◽  
Jong Min Choi
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Fault Detection ◽  
Heat Pump ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Heat Pumps ◽  
Fault Detection And Diagnosis ◽  
Fluid Flow Rate ◽  
Pump Unit ◽  
Heat Pump Unit ◽  
Secondary Fluid

Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) has become an important subject in heat pumps due to its potential for energy savings. However, research on multiple faults occurring at the secondary fluid side of heat pumps is rare in the open literature. This study experimentally examined single secondary fluid flow rate faults (SSFF) and multiple-simultaneous secondary fluid flow rate faults (MSSFF) and their effects on the performance of a heat pump unit, which is a core component of ground source heat pump systems, and proposed FDD methodology to detect these faults. The secondary fluid flow rate faults were simulated in cooling mode by varying the evaporator and condenser secondary fluid flow rates at 60%, 80%, 100%, 120%, and 140% of the reference value according to varying outdoor entering water temperature conditions. Condenser secondary fluid flow rate faults affected the heat pump coefficient of performance(COP) significantly more than the evaporator secondary fluid flow rate fault in SSFF. Cooling capacity was highly dependent on the evaporator secondary fluid flow rate fault while COP was greatly affected by the condenser secondary fluid flow rate fault in MSSFF. The FDD methodology was modeled using correlations and performance trends of the heat pump and can detect SSFF and MSSFF within an error threshold of ±1.6% and ±6.4% respectively.

Consideration of Uncertainties in Compact Cross-Flow Heat Exchanger Design for Gas Turbine Engine Application

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall D. Manteufel ◽  
Daniel G. Vecera
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Inlet Temperature ◽  
Fluid Flow Rate ◽  
Heat Exchanger Design ◽  
Cold Fluid ◽  
Flow Heat

Recent experimental work characterized the performance of a unique cross-flow heat exchanger design for application of cooling compressor bleed air using liquid jet fuel before it is consumed in the gas turbine combustor. The proposed design has micro-channels for liquid fuel and cools air flowing in passages created using rows of intermittent fins. The design appears well suited for aircraft applications because it is compact and light-weight. A theoretical model is reported to be in good agreement with experimental measurements using air and water, thus providing a design tool to evaluate variations in the heat exchanger dimensions. This paper presents an evaluation of the heat exchanger performance with consideration of uncertainties in both model parameters and predicted results. The evaluation of the design is proposed to be reproduced by students in a thermal-fluids design class. The heat exchanger performance is reevaluated using the effectiveness–NTU approach and shown to be consistent with the method reported in the original papers. Results show that the effectiveness is low and in the range of 20 to 30% as well as the NTU which ranges from 0.25 to 0.50 when the heat capacity ratio is near unity. The thermal resistance is dominated by the hot gas convective resistance. The uncertainties attributed to fluid properties, physical dimensions, gas pressure, and cold fluid flow rate are less significant when compared to uncertainties associated with hot fluid flow rate, hot fluid inlet temperature, cold fluid inlet temperature, and convective correlation for gas over a finned surface. The model shows which heat transfer mechanisms are most important in the performance of the heat exchanger.

Effect of depth and fluid flow rate on estimate for borehole thermal resistance of single U-pipe borehole heat exchanger

2020 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 2399-2408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changxing Zhang ◽  
Xinjie Wang ◽  
Pengkun Sun ◽  
Xiangqiang Kong ◽  
Shicai Sun
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Thermal Resistance ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Fluid Flow Rate ◽  
Borehole Heat Exchanger ◽  
Borehole Thermal Resistance

scholarly journals Thermal characteristics of the liquid heat exchanger for the transmitter/reciever module of AРAA

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Yu. E. Nikolaenko ◽  
О. V. Baranyuk ◽  
S. A. Reva
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Heat Dissipation ◽  
Total Power ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Cold Plate ◽  
Fluid Flow Rate ◽  
Liquid Heat

The paper presents the results on numerical simulation of the temperature field of a cold plate type liquid heat exchanger for a multichannel transmitter/receiver module. Each side of the cold plate carries 8 local microwave fuel elements with a heat dissipation capacity of 11 W each and one block with low-power electronic elements (total power of all elements — 50 W), installed symmetrically on both sides. The total heat dissipation capacity is 276 W. The cold plate is cooled by pumping a liquid heat carrier (Antifreeze A 65) through a curved cooling channel of rectangular cross-section made inside the liquid heat exchanger. The study was conducted at a working fluid flow rate of 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 l/min. Numerical simulation allowed obtaining the temperature distribution of the mounting surfaces of the cold plate and determining the values of the working fluid flow rate, which provide effective cooling of the mounting surfaces. It is shown that at a flow rate of 4 l/min, the temperature values at the installation sites of local microwave elements do not exceed 64°C. The total thermal resistance of the cooling system based on a liquid heat exchanger is from 0.063 to 0.028°C/W with a flow rate from 2 to 10 l/min, respectively.

Saving Primary Energy Consumption Through Exergy Analysis of Combine Distillation and Power Plant

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Alhassan Salami Tijani ◽  
Nazri Mohammed ◽  
Werner Witt
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Heat Pump ◽  
Heat Recovery ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Heat Pumps ◽  
Saturated Steam ◽  
Distillation Unit ◽  
Primary Energy Consumption

Industrial heat pumps are heat-recovery systems that allow the temperature ofwaste-heat stream to be increased to a higher, more efficient temperature. Consequently, heat pumps can improve energy efficiency in industrial processes as well as energy savings when conventional passive-heat recovery is not possible. In this paper, possible ways of saving energy in the chemical industry are considered, the objective is to reduce the primary energy (such as coal) consumption of power plant. Particularly the thermodynamic analyses ofintegrating backpressure turbine ofa power plant with distillation units have been considered. Some practical examples such as conventional distillation unit and heat pump are used as a means of reducing primary energy consumption with tangible indications of energy savings. The heat pump distillation is operated via electrical power from the power plant. The exergy efficiency ofthe primary fuel is calculated for different operating range ofthe heat pump distillation. This is then compared with a conventional distillation unit that depends on saturated steam from a power plant as the source of energy. The results obtained show that heat pump distillation is an economic way to save energy if the temperaturedifference between the overhead and the bottom is small. Based on the result, the energy saved by the application of a heat pump distillation is improved compared to conventional distillation unit.

Application of Cross-correlation Analysis Method for Measurement of the Fluid Flow Rate Based on X-ray Radiation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 01025-1-01025-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. Borodulya ◽  
◽  
R. O. Rezaev ◽  
S. G. Chistyakov ◽  
E. I. Smirnova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Cross Correlation ◽  
Fluid Flow Rate ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Cross Correlation Analysis ◽  
Correlation Analysis Method

A Suction Device Using Air Under Pressure

1956 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-272
Author(s):  
L. F. Welanetz
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Fluid Flows ◽  
Central Hole ◽  
Fluid Flow Rate ◽  
Circular Plates ◽  
Suction Device ◽  
Holding Power ◽  
Plate Separation

Abstract An analysis is made of the suction holding power of a device in which a fluid flows radially outward from a central hole between two parallel circular plates. The holding power and the fluid flow rate are determined as functions of the plate separation. The effect of changing the proportions of the device is investigated. Experiments were made to check the analysis.

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