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Experimental Evaluation of Thermal Performance of Solar Assisted Vapor Compression Heat Pump

Journal of Engineering

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Title Experimental Evaluation of Thermal Performance of Solar Assisted Vapor Compression Heat Pump
 
Creator Jassim, Najim Abed
Al-Chlaihawi, Kadhim Kareem
 
Description The thermal performance of indirect expansion solar assisted heat pump, IX-SAHP, was investigated experimentally under Iraqi climate. An Indirect-Solar Assisted Heat Pump system was designed, built, instrumented and tested. Experimental tests were conducted by varying the controlling parameters to investigate their effects on the thermal performance of the IX-SAHP such as cooling water flow rate, heating water flow rate, ambient temperature and solar radiation intensity. The investigation covered values of cooling water flow rate of (2, 3, 4, 5 l/min) and heating water flow rate of (2, 3, 4, 5 l/min) under meteorological condition of Baghdad from November 2014 to January 2015.
The results indicated that the performance of the IX-SAHP is not dependent on the heating water flow rate. On the contrary of heating water flow rate, cooling water flow rate has significant effect on the thermal performance of the system. The COP of the heat pump system is decreased with increasing cooling water flow rate. The collector heat gain increase with increasing the solar radiation and ambient temperature, this leads to increase in COP from 2.2 to 2.39 as the ambient temperature and solar radiation increase from 9.9℃ and 268 W/m2 to 14.9 ℃ and 689 W/m2 respectively.
 
 
 
Publisher College of Engineering | University of Baghdad
 
Date 2015-11-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://joe.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/main/article/view/325
 
Source مجلة الهندسة; مجلد 21 عدد 11 (2015): Journal of Engineering (Eng. J.); 145-160
Journal of Engineering; Vol 21 No 11 (2015): Journal of Engineering (Eng. J.); 145-160
2520-3339
1726-4073
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://joe.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/main/article/view/325/282
 
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