Heat transfer effect on the specific heating load of heat pumps

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103-110

  Chen, Lingen ^a   Wu, Chih ^b   Sun, Fengrui ^a  

^a Naval Academy of Engineering   (China)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat transfer effect; Refrigerator; Specific cooling load

Indexed keywords

HEAT SINKS; HEAT TRANSFER; REFRIGERATORS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL LOAD;

LOW TEMPERATURE HEAT SOURCES; TWO HEAT RESERVOIR HEAT PUMPS;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030736477     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1359-4311(95)00095-x     Document Type: Article

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