A comparison of the performance of a direct expansion solar assisted heat pump working with R22 and a mixture of R407C-liquefied petroleum gas

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy

Volumn 223, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 821-833

  Mohanraj, M ^a   Jayaraj, S ^a   Muraleedharan, C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT   (India)

Author keywords

Alternative refrigerants; Artificial neural network; Direct expansion solar assisted heat pump; R22; R407C liquefied petroleum gas

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE REFRIGERANT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DIRECT EXPANSION; R22; SOLAR ASSISTED HEAT PUMP;

BACKPROPAGATION; BUTANE; COMPRESSORS; EXPERIMENTS; GAS INDUSTRY; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEATING; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; MIXTURES; NEURONS; OZONE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PUMPS; REFRIGERANTS; SOLAR ENERGY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 70450212584     PISSN: 09576509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09576509JPE764     Document Type: Article

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