Design of Heat Exchangers for Heat Pump Applications

• Other Authors: Fossa, Marco (Editor), Priarone, Antonella (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; adsorption; cooling technology; chiller; heat exchanger; waste heat utilization; CFD; heat pumps; EnergyPlus; buildings; exergy transfer performance; nanofluids; marine seawater source; heat pump; graphene nanoparticles; ground-to-air heat exchangers; GAHE; experimental results; preheating and precooling for HVAC; energy saving for HVAC; models for calculating the thermal efficiency of ground-to-air heat exchangers; shallow geothermal system; dual source heat pump; phase change materials; numerical simulations; tube heat exchanger with plate-fins; air-side Nusselt number; various heat transfer equations in each tube row; CFD modelling; empirical heat transfer equation; ground coupled heat pumps; borehole heat exchangers; distributed temperature response test; grouting material; hydration heat release; ground heat exchanger; whole-building energy simulation; ground source heat pump; g-Function
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Heat pumps (HPs) allow for providing heat without direct combustion, in both civil and industrial applications. They are very efficient systems that, by exploiting electrical energy, greatly reduce local environmental pollution and CO2 global emissions. The fact that electricity is a partially renew...