An experimental study on defrosting heat supplies and energy consumptions during a reverse cycle defrost operation for an air source heat pump

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 380-387

  Dong, Jiankai ^a,b   Deng, Shiming ^a   Jiang, Yiqiang ^b   Xia, Liang ^a   Yao, Yang ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Air source heat pump; Defrosting efficiency; Energy consumption; Experiment; Heat supply; Revere cycle defrost

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; COIL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; DEWPOINT TEMPERATURE; END-USES; EVALUATION RESULTS; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FREEZING POINT; HEAT SUPPLY; INDOOR AIR; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; REVERE CYCLE DEFROST;

DEFROSTING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PUMPS; SPACE HEATING;

AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMPS;

EID: 84856382592     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.11.052     Document Type: Article

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