scholarly journals ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN CONSTANTA HARBOR- A THEORETICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE OF A HEAT PUMP FOR HEATING NEEDS, FOR A LESS POLLUTANT ADMINISTRATION OFFICE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
FEIZA MEMET

In accordance with the present energetic exigencies, the energy consumption in port buildings is of a vital importance. From this perspective, heat pumps are less pollutant and more energy efficient options than the traditional heating technologies. This study focuses on an air source heat pump (ASHP), operating in an administration office located in Constanta harbor, Romania, in order to supply heated water during December of 2020. Electrically driven heat pumps are seen as a successful alternative to classical expensive heating means, such as electrical heating or the one based on fossil fuels combustion. Within this research, are investigated influences of the heated water temperatures and exterior air temperatures on the theoretical Coefficient of Performance, the compression ratio and the discharge temperature. The cycle is working with R134a, with 50C superheating and sub cooling. It will be considered that the heated water is supplied in the range (40-50) 0C, while the outdoor air temperature varies in the range (0-10) 0C. Obtained results show that the highest efficiency of the ASHP is obtained for the lowest value of the heated water temperature and for the highest value of the outdoor air temperature. This situation corresponds also to the good working of the compressor of the refrigeration plant, since are seen lowest values of the compression rate and the discharge temperature, as well. This means that the compressor do not consume high amounts of energy and the oil is not damaged because of high temperatures of the refrigerant vapors.

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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 993-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung Jang ◽  
Young Lee

A heat pump dryer can save more energy than other dryers since its drying efficiency is 2-3 times higher than that of other types of dryers. However, the lower bound of evaporating temperature for an R134a heat pump cycle ranges from 5 to 10?C, when the outdoor air temperature closely approaches the evaporating temperature, it experiences reduced efficiency and ultimately becomes inoperable. To address this issue, a cascade heat pump dryer equipped with a solar collector was considered in order to examine the operability and efficiency of the heat pump cycle, depending on changes in the outdoor air temperature in wintertime. The changes in cascade cycles, depending on the temperature in a drying chamber, were also observed. The results showed that the average coefficient of performance (COP) of the cascade heat pump dryer was approximately 2.6 under the temperature range of ?10 to 20 ?C. An electrical heater whose COP is less than one should be used in that temperature range. It was also found that COP of the dryer increased by approximately 35% when using a solar collector under a low outdoor air temperature environment.


Author(s):  
Suola Shao ◽  
Huan Zhang ◽  
Shijun You ◽  
Yaran Wang

Abstract In response to the triple crisis of energy–environment–economy (3Es), the air-source heat pump (ASHP) system is considered to be one of the most feasible candidates to upgrade the traditional high emission heating solutions. In this paper, a novel thermal storage refrigerant-heated panel (RHP) is proposed for the ASHP heating system. Experiments were conducted in a climate chamber to test the heating and defrosting performance of the system, the thermal performance of the RHP, the system energy efficiency, and the system economic feasibility. The results show that the heat flux of the RHP is as high as 625.5 W/m2 at a condensation temperature of 40 °C and an outdoor air temperature of −7 °C. Meanwhile, the system is demonstrated to be reliable and competitive with efficient thermal stability in heating conditions and comfortable indoor thermal in defrosting conditions. The coefficient of performance (COP) ranges from 2.2 to 4.0 when the outdoor air temperature changes from −12 °C to 7 °C in the tests. Meanwhile, the initial capital cost and the total annual cost of the proposed system are 430 USD and 203.1 USD, respectively, which is competitive in the distracted heating systems.


Author(s):  
F. J. Smit ◽  
Josua P. Meyer

The applications of hot water in the industrial, domestic and mining applications are numerous, and these are only a few of the core areas of use. In these applications fossil fuels and electrical resistance systems are usually used to heat water to temperatures near boiling point. The refrigerant R22, that is currently being used in hot water heat pumps, delivers hot water temperatures from 60 °C to 65 °C. This limits the applications of hot water heat pumps. This analytical study uses three comparison methods to investigate and compare the potential of a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture consisting of R22 and R142b. From the results different advantages of non-azeotropic refrigerant mixtures are evident. Depending on the application, if the results of a non-azeotropic refrigerant mixture are compared with a pure R22 heat pump, an increase in hot water temperatures to above boiling point, an increase in coefficient of performance, an increase in capacity and a decrease in compressor pressure ratio are possible. Unfortunately, not all these advantages are valid for each application. For instance, extremely high hot water temperatures are obtained, whilst the heating capacity is excessively low.


Author(s):  
David Palomar Aguilar ◽  
Carlos Miguel Iglesias Sanz ◽  
Sofia Corsini Fuhrmann

Heating and cooling consume a high amount of energy, which is today mainly provided by fossil fuels. To save fossil resources and simultaneously reduce pollutants and CO2, heating and cooling energy consumption should be reduced. Geothermal energy is a clean, inexhaustible source of energy that is available all year round because it does not depend on the weather. Nevertheless, the use of tempered subsoil air has been used as a traditional air conditioning strategy; however, nowadays, its use has been questioned by the discovery of the leaks of radon gas from the ground. The investigation searches a heat exchange system with the subsoil which prevents the introduction of radon gas into living spaces. The system that is exposed increases the performance of aerothermal heat pumps by means of thermal exchange with tempered air in the sanitary chamber. This exchange is more favorable than air at the outside temperature, increasing the COP of the machine. This system complies with the regulations for protection against radon, protecting the building from this radioactive gas.


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.


2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 1330002 ◽  
Author(s):  
KOJO ATTA AIKINS ◽  
SANG-HYEOK LEE ◽  
JONG MIN CHOI

There is increasing demand for domestic and industrial refrigeration, space heating and air conditioning. Heat pump systems offer economical alternatives for recovering heat from different sources for use in these applications. As a renewable energy technology for sustainable environment, the heat pump's high efficiency and low environmental impact have already drawn a fair amount of attention all over the world. Some of these domestic and industrial applications require very low evaporating temperatures and very high condensing temperatures which induce high compressor pressure ratios beyond the practical range for single-stage heat pump cycles. These high pressure ratios also produce low coefficient of performance (COP) values and expose the compressor to high discharge temperature, low volumetric efficiency and damage. However, this challenge can be overcome by adopting two-stage heat pump cycles. In this paper, recent works on two-stage heat pump systems for various applications are reviewed. They include two-stage cycle with intercooling, two-stage cycle with refrigerant injection and two-stage cascade cycle. Research and innovative designs of systems that make use of these two-stage cycles have been able to get heat pumps to handle applications with lower and higher temperatures, while enhancing heating capacity up to 30% and COP up to 31%.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Florian Schlosser ◽  
Heinrich Wiebe ◽  
Timothy G. Walmsley ◽  
Martin J. Atkins ◽  
Michael R. W. Walmsley ◽  
...  

Heat pumps are the key technology to decarbonise thermal processes by upgrading industrial surplus heat using renewable electricity. Existing insight-based integration methods refer to the idealised Grand Composite Curve requiring the full exploitation of heat recovery potential but leave the question of how to deal with technical or economic limitations unanswered. In this work, a novel Heat Pump Bridge Analysis (HPBA) is introduced for practically targeting technical and economic heat pump potential by applying Coefficient of Performance curves into the Modified Energy Transfer Diagram (METD). Removing cross-Pinch violations and operating heat exchangers at minimum approach temperatures by combined application of Bridge Analysis increases the heat recovery rate and reduce the temperature lift to be pumped at the same time. The insight-based METD allows the individual matching of heat surpluses and deficits of individual streams with the capabilities and performance of different market-available heat pump concepts. For an illustrative example, the presented modifications based on HPBA increase the economically viable share of the technical heat pump potential from 61% to 79%.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1576
Author(s):  
Piotr Jadwiszczak ◽  
Jakub Jurasz ◽  
Bartosz Kaźmierczak ◽  
Elżbieta Niemierka ◽  
Wandong Zheng

Heating and cooling sectors contribute to approximately 50% of energy consumption in the European Union. Considering the fact that heating is mostly based on fossil fuels, it is then evident that its decarbonization is one of the crucial tasks for achieving climate change prevention goals. At the same time, electricity sectors across the globe are undergoing a rapid transformation in order to accommodate the growing capacities of non-dispatchable solar and wind generators. One of the proposed solutions to achieve heating sector decarbonization and non-dispatchable generators power system integration is sector coupling, where heat pumps are perceived as a perfect fit. Air source heat pumps enable a rapid improvement in local air quality by replacing conventional heating sources, but at the same time, they put additional stress on the power system. The emissions associated with heat pump operation are a combination of power system energy mix, weather conditions and heat pump technology. Taking the above into consideration, this paper presents an approach to estimate which of the mentioned factors has the highest impact on heat pump emissions. Due to low air quality during the heating season, undergoing a power system transformation (with a relatively low share of renewables) in a case study located in Poland is considered. The results of the conducted analysis revealed that for a scenario where an air-to-water (A/W) heat pump is supposed to cover space and domestic hot water load, its CO2 emissions are shaped by country-specific energy mix (55.2%), heat pump technology (coefficient of performance) (33.9%) and, to a lesser extent, by changing climate (10.9%). The outcome of this paper can be used by policy makers in designing decarbonization strategies and funding distribution.


Author(s):  
Mohammad Omar Temori ◽  
František Vranay

In this work, a mini review of heat pumps is presented. The work is intended to introduce a technology that can be used to income energy from the natural environment and thus reduce electricity consumption for heating and cooling. A heat pump is a mechanical device that transfers heat from one environmental compartment to another, typically against a temperature gradient (i.e. from cool to hot). In order to do this, an energy input is required: this may be mechanical, electrical or thermal energy. In most modern heat pumps, electrical energy powers a compressor, which drives a compression - expansion cycle of refrigerant fluid between two heat exchanges: a cold evaporator and a warm condenser. The efficiency or coefficient of performance (COP), of a heat pump is defined as the thermal output divided by the primary energy (electricity) input. The COP decreases as the temperature difference between the cool heat source and the warm heat sink increases. An efficient ground source heat pump (GSHP) may achieve a COP of around 4. Heat pumps are ideal for exploiting low-temperature environmental heat sources: the air, surface waters or the ground. They can deliver significant environmental (CO2) and cost savings.


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