Dynamic simulation of air-source heat pump during hot-gas defrost

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 675-685

  Liu, Zhiqiang ^a   Tang, Guangfa ^a   Zhao, Fuyun ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Distributed model; Dynamic simulation; Hot gas defrost; Refrigeration system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFROSTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRIGERANTS;

AIR-SOURCE HEAT PUMPS;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037400198     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(03)00002-4     Document Type: Article

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