Carbon dioxide as refrigerant for tap water heat pumps: A comparison with the traditional solution

Cecchinato, Luca; Corradi, Marco; Fornasieri, Ezio; Zamboni, Luca Q.

doi:10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2005.05.019

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“…Some studies have been conducted for the performance analysis on water heating systems (Cecchinato et al, 2005;Stene, 2005;Minetto, 2011). However, few studies have been conducted in consideration of daily changes in the aforementioned conditions.…”

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“…As a result, the system performance is affected by the operational history on past several days, and changes complexly with days. Therefore, in order to attain the maximum system performance, it is necessary to estimate the daily changes in system performance values accurately in relation to those in the ambient conditions, hot water demand, and operating conditions, and determine the operating conditions optimally based on them.Some studies have been conducted for the performance analysis on water heating systems (Cecchinato et al, 2005;Stene, 2005;Minetto, 2011). However, few studies have been conducted in consideration of daily changes in the aforementioned conditions.…”

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Performance Estimation and Optimal Operation of a CO2 Heat Pump Water Heating System

Yokoyama¹

2013

Int. J. Thermo

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IntroductionHot water demand occupies about one-third of the energy consumption in the residential sector in Japan, and energy saving in hot water supply has been an important issue. Under this situation, water heating systems each of which is composed of a heat pump using CO 2 as a natural refrigerant and a hot water storage tank have been developed and commercialized widely (Saikawa, 2004;Hashimoto, 2006). The performance of CO 2 heat pumps has been enhanced dramatically through the technological development of their components such as compressors and gas coolers. On the other hand, importance has also been given to the performance of water heating systems in case they are operated under a daily change in hot water demand.The performance of the CO 2 heat pump only, or coefficient of performance (COP) is affected by the air temperature as well as the inlet and outlet water temperatures. Many theoretical and experimental studies have been conducted for the performance analysis on CO 2 heat pumps (Hwang and Radermacher, 1998;Nekså et al., 1998; Saikawa et al., 1999;Saikawa and Hashimoto, 2001;Nekså, 2002;White et al., 2002;Skaugen et al., 2002;Richter et al., 2003;Yokoyama et al., 2006;Laipvadit et al., 2008;Yan et al., 2010;Sarkar et al., 2010;Yamaguchi et al., 2011). On the other hand, the performance of the water heating system composed of the CO 2 heat pump and storage tank is affected by many conditions. The ambient conditions such as air and feed water temperatures, the hot water demand, and the operating conditions such as startup and shutdown, and outlet water temperature during operation of the CO 2 heat pump affect the inlet water temperature and resultantly the COP through the temperature distribution in the storage tank. In addition to the COP, the storage and system efficiencies, and the volumes of stored and unused hot water are considered as system performance values, and these are also affected by the aforementioned various conditions through the temperature distribution in the storage tank. As a result, the system performance is affected by the operational history on past several days, and changes complexly with days. Therefore, in order to attain the maximum system performance, it is necessary to estimate the daily changes in system performance values accurately in relation to those in the ambient conditions, hot water demand, and operating conditions, and determine the operating conditions optimally based on them.Some studies have been conducted for the performance analysis on water heating systems (Cecchinato et al., 2005;Stene, 2005;Minetto, 2011). However, few studies have been conducted in consideration of daily changes in the aforementioned conditions. In order to investigate the daily changes in system performance values, laboratory and field tests have been tried under simulated and practical hot water demands, respectively. However, hot water demands depend on residential houses, and it takes extremely long time to conduct the tests. Thus, it is not necessarily easy to investigate the ...

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Performance Estimation and Optimal Operation of a CO2 Heat Pump Water Heating System

Yokoyama¹

2013

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“…More directly, others researchers have reported COP improvement with a certain subcooling, although in some cases, the degree of subcooling is not indicated (Cecchinato et al, 2005, Hjerkinn, 2007, Redon et al, 2014. In addition, in a more recent study, Pottker and Hrnjak (2015) theoretically studied the effect of subcooling in an air conditioning system for different refrigerants, they pointed out the existence of an optimal subcooling that maximizes COP for their equipment.…”

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“…This effort has been materialized in projects such as ECO-CUTE in Japan (ECO-CUTE project). Works like (Cecchinato et al, 2005;Nekså et al, 1998;Nekså, 2002;Rieberer et al, 1997) has shown high efficiency of these cycles at water temperature lifts even higher than 50K. Stene (2004) discussed the existence of the gas cooler pinch point and the effect of the rejection pressure control for CO2 heat pump water heaters.…”

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High capacity heat pump development for sanitary hot water production

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L'home viu d'emocions, no del seu currículum Kilian Journet i AcknowledgmentsEn primer lloc volia donar-li les gràcies als meus directors de tesis, José Gonzálvez i Emilio Navarro, perquè sense ells aquest treball no haguera sigut possible. Gràcies per donar-me l'oportunitat de treballar en el projecte Europeu NxtHPG, per tot el que m'heu ensenyat, pels bons consells i per les hores que hem passat analitzant els resultats o especulant sobre algun problema concret.Gràcies als meus companys del IIE, sobretot a tots aquells que en alguna mesura han participat en aquest projecte, en especial a José Miguel, Carla, i Alex, amb qui he passat moltes hores barallant-nos amb sensors, vàlvules d'expansió i altres aparells del dimoni. També volia nomenar a Estefania, qui continuarà amb el treball d'aquesta tesi, i amb qui, juntament amb Emilio, hem passat unes quantes hores donant-li voltes i repensant els cicles termodinàmics.Gràcies també als participants del projecte Europeu "Next Generation of Heat Pumps working with Natural fluids", de qui també he aprés moltes coses.Des d'una perspectiva més personal, volia començar nomenant a aquells que varen començar amb mi aquesta aventura universitària, en especial a Ausiàs, i com no a Guillermo, a qui vaig conéixer en la cua per a la matrícula d'industrials, i que 10 anys després hem viscut tantíssimes coses junts.To those guys who I met during my two years in Denmark and we became friends for life, the Xafaets: Andrea, Cristian and Niccolo.Als meus amics d'infància, d'adolescència, edat adulta, i segur que vellesa, Irak, Gabi (Pollo), i com no Jorge (Puxi) amb qui he compartit tantes hores de confidències, moments bons i roïns, però sobretot reconfortants.A Marinna, o meu sol do meio-dia, perquè el seu somriure ja m'alegra el dia, per tots els projectes que tenim i perquè amb ella sempre podré dir cueca.Per últim volia donar-li les gràcies a la meua família. Als meus germans Gabi i José, qui m'ha fet tio de les xiquetes més boniques del món, Olga i Núria. A ma Mare, perquè és una lluitadora, però sobretot una somiadora, en part li dec a ella la meua forma de ser. Però si he de dedicar aquesta tesi a algú, és a ell, a l'home del somriure permanent, a qui li dec l'altra part de la meua forma de ser, a mon Pare.iii AbstractHeat pumps have been identified as an efficient alternative to traditional boilers for the production of sanitary hot water (SHW). The high water temperature lift (usually from 10ᵒC to 60ᵒC) involved in this application has conditioned the type of used solutions. On the one hand, transcritical cycles have been considered as one of the most suitable solutions to overcome the high water temperature lift. Nevertheless, the performance of the transcritical CO2 heat pump is quite dependent on the water inlet temperature, which in many cases is above 10ᵒC. Furthermore, performance highly depends on the rejection pressure, which needs to be controlled to work at the optimum point in any condition. On the other hand, for the subcritical systems, subcooling seems to be c...

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Performance Analysis and Optimization of aCO₂Heat Pump Water Heating System

Yokoyama

2021

Transcritical CO2 Heat Pump

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Carbon dioxide as refrigerant for tap water heat pumps: A comparison with the traditional solution

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Carbon dioxide as refrigerant for tap water heat pumps: A comparison with the traditional solution

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