Control strategy and experimental study on a novel defrosting method for air-source heat pump

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 892-899

  Liang, Cai Hua ^a   Zhang, Xiao Song ^a   Li, Xiu Wei ^a   Chen, Zhen Qian ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air source heat pump; Control strategy; Defrosting method; Self organizing fuzzy control

Indexed keywords

AIR-SOURCE HEAT PUMP; AIR-SOURCE HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; CONTROL CHARACTERISTICS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONTROL UNIT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FUZZY CONTROL ALGORITHMS; REFRIGERATION SYSTEM; SELF ORGANIZING; SELF-LEARNING; SELF-ORGANIZING FUZZY CONTROL; SENSIBLE HEAT; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION;

FUZZY CONTROL; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; PUMPS; REFRIGERATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

DEFROSTING;

EID: 77649271524     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2009.12.022     Document Type: Article

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