Computer-aided heat-pump design and optimization
Abstract
Analytical methods to predict the performance of existing and proposed heat pumps and computer programs to serve as tools for the design and optimization of high efficiency heat pumps are described. A computer model of electric-motor-driven heat pumps was developed to provide detailed analyses of the performance of existing or proposed heat pumps. To the extent possible, the model is based on the physical principles underlying the processes and on basic correlations, with minimal use of empirical correlations. The computer program is oganized to facilitate its use by engineers who want to concentrate on a heat pump design, not a computer program. The heat pump model was connected to an optimization program. The heat pump design, not a computer program. The heat pump model was connected to an optimization program in order to maximize the predicted heating efficiency by simultaneously varying ten design parameters to find the combination giving the highest COP at a specified heating capacity.
- Publication:
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Presented at the DOE Heat Pump Contractors' Program Integration Meeting
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981hpcp.meet.....F
- Keywords:
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- Computer Aided Design;
- Heat Pumps;
- Optimization;
- Computer Programs;
- Mathematical Models;
- Thermodynamic Efficiency;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer