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The Characteristics of the Evaporator/Evaporator for Direct Expansion Solar Assisted Heat Pump System Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, 2013, 1, 73-76 73 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jpee.2013.15012 Published Online October 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/jpee) The Characteristics of the Evaporator/Evaporator for Direct Expansion Solar Assisted Heat Pump System Mingyan Zhu, Huanrong Xie, Biao Zhang, Xin Guan Institute of Energy and Power Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. Email: [email protected] Received October 2013 ABSTRACT Direct expansion solar assisted heat pump (DX-SAHP) technology is developed by combining solar energy heat utiliza- tion with heat pump energy saving technology. The experimental researches of the DX-SAHP hot water system are conducted in this paper, and overall performance of DX-SAHP is analyzed with three different structures of collec- tors/evaporators, namely a bare-plate collector, a glass-plate collector and double collectors/evaporators (a bare-plate collector and a glass-plate collector). The influence factors and overall performance are studied, which show that the overall performance of the system is mainly influenced by solar irradiation intensity and the collector area. Comparing with glass-plate collector in similar conditions, bare-plate collector system COP is higher. While increasing collector area is conducive to improve the system COP, but will reduce the collector efficiency and increase the workload of the compressor by comparing the bare-plate collector with double-plate collectors. Keywords: Direct Expansion Solar Assisted Heat Pump; Collector/Evaporator; Experimental Research 1. Introduction which directly affect system performance, in order to achieve higher COP and the collector efficiency, the col- Energy sources are widely utilized in many aspects with lector/evaporation temperature should keep greater than a high-speed human society development period. Solar ambient temperature at a range of 5˚C - 10˚C [3,4]. In energy is known as the renewable and “free” energy order to solve the reliability problems, Shanghai Jiaotong source, without doubt, it is the best choice to be a heat University Guo Junjie studied two different evaporation source of heat pump like the air source. In order to im- areas and found that system’s reliability has improved by prove the heat pump COP, the idea of combining the heat increasing the evaporation area in low-temperature con- pump with solar energy application system has been ditions [9]. proposed and developed by many researchers around the world, which is the direct expansion solar assisted heat 2. Experimental System Device Introduction pump(DX-SAHP), the solar collector and the heat pump evaporator are installed into a single unit (collector/eva- In order to investigate influence of collectors/evaporators porator), where the refrigerant is directly evaporated in on thermal performance of DX-SAHP, we set up the the solar collector-evaporator by absorbing the solar DX-SAHP experimental equipment, which is shown in energy (and/or ambient air energy) to undergo a phase Figure 1. It mainly contains the solar energy collector/ transition from liquid to vapor. The DX-SAHP concept evaporator, compressor, condenser, heat storage water was first proposed by Sporm and Ambrose in 1955 [1]. tank, gas-liquid separator, filter drier and thermal expan- Following their work, many theoretical and experimental sion valve parts, and the structural parameters of the studies (thermodynamic analysis, numerical simulation main components are as follows: 1) Solar collector/eva- etc.) have been reported. Such as the United States Sporm porator: Sampux “PYT/L2.0-3” tablets of finned tube S.K, Chaturvedi, M.P.O ‘Dell, Australian G.L. Morrison, type collector/evaporator, two pieces of collectors/eva- Hawlader, Krakok and Lin in Japan, Huang BJ etc [1-8]. porators (one is a bare-plate collector, the other is a Chaturvedi conducted a theoretical analysis for several glass-plate collector), both the collectors area are 2 m2, types of collectors/evaporators in 1979 and found that the valid heating area 1.87 m2; 2) Compressor: NJ6226Z using the inexpensive bare-plate collector can have a type Hermetic reciprocating compressor, the rated power high COP and collector efficiency, whether the capacity of 735 W; 3) condenser: “BL14-20D” type plate heat of the collector and the compressor capacity match or not, exchanger with heat transfer area of 0.35 m2; 4) heat sto- Copyright © 2013 SciRes. JPEE 74 The Characteristics of the Evaporator/Evaporator for Direct Expansion Solar Assisted Heat Pump System 1, 2—Collector/evaporator; 3—Gas-liquid separator; 4—Compressor; 5—Condenser; 6—High pressure accumulator 7—Thermal expansion valve; 8—Circulating water pump; 9—Heat storage water tank. Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the direct expansion type of the solar heat pump hot water system. rage water tank pressure type 304 stainless steel tank m2), a bare-plate collector (Ac = 2 m2) and double-plate design, capacity of 150 L; 5) Throttling device: “TN 2” collectors (Ac = 4 m2), where Ac is the collector area. type thermal expansion valve, the system refrigerant is The solar irradiance ranges 143.12 W/m2 - 664.6 W/m2 the pollution-free R134a; 6) Circulating water pump: and the system COP is 2.49 - 3.47. The following is the “HRS20/11-Z” type pump, the rated input power of 120 comparative analysis on the collectors in similar condi- W, the rated head of 7.5 m and the rated flow of 0.55 tions. m3/h; From the data shown in Figures 2 and 3, with the 2 In the direct expansion type solar heat pump system, glass-plate collector (Ac = 2 m ) and a bare-plate collec- 2 the operating temperature of the collector and the refri- tor (Ac = 2 m ), respectively, the DX-SAHP is affected gerant evaporation temperature keeps consistent and in by external environment (solar irradiance, ambient tem- low temperature range, which can obtain higher collec- perature, wind speed, etc.), during the experimental pe- tion efficiency and avoid the solar energy heat pump af- riod, the average value of the solar radiation and ambient 2 2 fected by the shortage of time and weather, the refrige- temperature are 602 W/m , 30.2˚C and 604 W/m , 29.4˚C rant is directly evaporated in the solar collector-evapo- respectively, the COP of the glass-plate collector opera- rator by absorbing the incident solar energy (and/or am- tion mode is 2.69 and the other is 3.25. The average val- bient air energy) to undergo a phase transition from liq- ue of the solar radiation is almost alike, however, the uid to vapor, then the vaporized refrigerant passes through instantaneous solar radiation varied with the effect of the compressor and finally pumped into the condenser, cloud, thus unstable system operation thereby affecting where it gets condensed by water as cooling medium the heating power and compressor power consumption, it through a refrigerant-to-water heat exchanger out of the was found that the system COP increases or reduces with water tank. the solar irradiance increases or decreases at the begin- ning of the system’ running, then, the system operation is 3. Running Performance of DX-SAHP stable gradually with time, namely, although the system is still affected by the instantaneous solar radiation, The performance of DX-SAHP is greatly influenced by which is not with a high fluctuation. the environment parameter, in order to study it, we use Firstly, the water temperature difference maintains a three kinds of collectors/evaporators operation mode constant basically, secondly, the compressor power con- respectively, a set of experimental data are selected to sumption rises all the time, which are the reasons that the analyze the time-dependent performance of the DX- COP of the bare-plate collector has been declining. Even SAHP system in different meteorological conditions. The though the compressor power consumption and the water collectors/evaporators are a glass-plate collector (Ac = 2 temperature difference are all higher than the glass-plate Copyright © 2013 SciRes. JPEE The Characteristics of the Evaporator/Evaporator for Direct Expansion Solar Assisted Heat Pump System 75 5.0 6 5.0 740 solar irradiation(glass-plate collector) 720 4.8 4.5 solar irradiation(bare-plate collector) COP(bare-plate collector) 700 COP(glass-plate collector) 4.6 5 COP(double-plate collector) 680 4.0 COP(bare-plate collector) 4.4 collection efficiency(bare-plate collector) 660 collection efficiency(double-plate collector) 640 4.2 3.5 4 620 4.0 600 3.0 3.8 580 3 2.5 560 3.6 COP COP 540 3.4 2.0 520 3.2 2 500 1.5 collection efficiency Solar irradiation(w/ 480 ㎡ ) 3.0 460 1.0 2.8 1 440 420 2.6 0.5 400 2.4 0 0.0 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Time(min) Time(min) Figure 2. System COP and solar irradiance with different Figure 4. Comparison with the collection efficiency and COP operation mode. between bare-plate collector and double-plate collectors. 1100 4.0 compressor power consumption (glass-plate collector) 3.8 heating area, the COP increases while the efficiency de- 1050 compressor power consumption (bare-plate collector) water temperature difference(glass-plate collector) 3.6 creases oppositely. Firstly, this is because that the col- 1000 water temperature difference(bare-plate collector) 3.4 3.2 lector area increases, the solar irradiation absorbed by the 950 3.0 evaporator increases, leading the refrigerant evaporation 900 2.8 temperature increases, finally improving the COP of DX- 2.6 850 2.4 SAHP; as the evaporation temperature increases, the heat 800 2.2 absorbed from the atmosphere in evaporator increased, 2.0 750 whereas the efficiency of the collector is decreased.
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