An experimental study on the effects of downwards flowing of melted frost over a vertical multi-circuit outdoor coil in an air source heat pump on defrosting performance during reverse cycle defrosting

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 258-265

  Song, Mengjie ^a   Deng, Shiming ^a   Pan, Dongmei ^a   Mao, Ning ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Air source heat pump; Defrosting; Experiment; Melted frost; Multi circuit

Indexed keywords

MELTED FROST; MULTI-CIRCUIT;

DEFROSTING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; FROST EFFECTS;

AIR SOURCE HEAT PUMPS;

EID: 84898060694     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.03.020     Document Type: Article

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