A study of the reverse cycle defrosting performance on a multi-circuit outdoor coil unit in an air source heat pump - Part II: Modeling analysis

Applied Energy

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 274-280

  Qu, Minglu ^a   Pan, Dongmei ^a   Xia, Liang ^a   Deng, Shiming ^a   Jiang, Yiqiang ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Air source heat pump; Defrosting performance; Modeling; Multiple parallel refrigerant circuits; Reverse cycle defrost

Indexed keywords

DEFROSTING; FROST EFFECTS; MODELS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

HEATING CAPACITY; MELTING RATES; MODEL ANALYSIS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELING; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TWO-PART SERIES;

AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMPS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUMP;

EID: 80054866864     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.08.036     Document Type: Article

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