Heat Pump Design for Simultaneous Cooling Space and Heating Water Coupled with Earth-Tube Heat Exchanger as Secondary Heat Sink
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https://doi.org/10.48048/tis.2022.2899Keywords:
Heat pump, Simultaneous heating and cooling, Earth tube heat exchanger, Cooling space, Coefficient of performanceAbstract
A heat pump for simultaneous heating and cooling (HPS) is more efficient in energy and beneficial
in use than a reversible heat pump which works in either direction to provide heating or cooling. A HPS is usually coupled with a thermal storage tank for possibly operating in 3 modes: heating mode, cooling mode, and simultaneous heating and cooling mode. To improve the HPS performance in heating mode or cooling mode, the HPS should be installed an auxiliary equipment in order to reject overheat in the system or to absorb supplemental heat into the system. This paper proposed a design of a HPS for cooling space and hot water production coupled with a horizontally shallow earth-tube heat exchanger as secondary heat sink for Thai residences in which the main components in the design are composed of the condenser and the earth tube heat exchanger. The coefficients of performance (COP) of the HPS were evaluated by the experiments. The results showed that it could work the best performance when it worked in simultaneous cooling and heating mode at the water flow rate of 6.0 L/min with the coefficient of performance (COP) of 6.3±3.1 %. The HPS had high efficiency and it worked continuously in cooling mode when it operated in the nighttime with the average COP of 4.3±14.5 %. However, an efficiency of the HPS was declined when heat gain in the conditioned room is significantly increased by high intensity of solar radiation in the daytime with the average COP of 2.5±14.5 %.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Energy used for cooling or heating systems such as air-conditioning and hot water production is predominantly effect to total energy use in residential sector in many countries including Thailand
- A heat pump for simultaneous heating and cooling (HPS) for cooling space and hot water production coupled with thermal storage tank and a horizontally shallow earth-tube heat exchanger as secondary heat sink were designed for Thai residences
- This HPS could work the best performance when it worked in simultaneous cooling and heating mode
- For only cooling mode, this HPS worked continuously with high performance when it operated in the nighttime but in the daytime it still worked continuously with lower performance
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