A novel defrosting control method based on the degree of refrigerant superheat for air source heat pumps

International Journal of Refrigeration

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2278-2288

  Jiang, Yiqiang ^a   Dong, Jiankai ^a   Qu, Minglu ^b   Deng, Shiming ^b   Yao, Yang ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Air source; Defrosting control method; Experiment; Heat pump; Refrigerant; Superheat

Indexed keywords

AIR SOURCES; CONTROL METHODS; ELECTRONIC EXPANSION VALVES; HEAT PUMPS; OPERATING PERFORMANCE; SUPERHEAT; TIME CONTROL;

DEFROSTING; EXPERIMENTS; FROST RESISTANCE; REFRIGERANTS;

AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMPS;

EID: 84890555017     PISSN: 01407007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2013.05.016     Document Type: Article

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