Solar/gas Rankine/Rankine-cycle heat pump assessment
Abstract
This report contains an assessment of the technical and economic feasibility of Rankine-cycle solar-augmented gas-fired heat pumps (SAGFHP) for multi-family residential and light-commercial applications. The SAGFHP design considered in this report is based on the successful UTRC turbocompressor system which has been tested both in the laboratory and in a solar cooling installation in Phoenix. AZ. An hour-by-hour modeling of present-design SAGFHP performance in multi-family and office buildings in New York, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Oregon indicated that, even without solar augmentation, primary energy savings of up 17% and 31% could be achieved relative to advanced furnace plus electric air conditioning systems and electric heat pumps, respectively.
- Publication:
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Final Report
- Pub Date:
- July 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982utc..rept.....K
- Keywords:
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- Economic Analysis;
- Feasibility Analysis;
- Heat Pumps;
- Loads (Forces);
- Natural Gas;
- Optimization;
- Rankine Cycle;
- Solar Collectors;
- Solar Cooling;
- Thermochemical Properties;
- Turbocompressors;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer