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Cold Climate Field Test Analysis Of An Air-Source Heat Pump With Two-Stage Compression And Economizing, Stephen Lance Caskey

Open Access Theses

A Department of Defense project was established to conduct a field demonstration led by Purdue University with several industry partners. The technology investigated was an air-source, two-stage heat pump with closed-loop economizing. The field demonstration site was a military barracks on a National Guard base, Camp Atterbury, in southern Indiana. Two heat pumps were built at the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories and installed into two almost identical, barracks buildings. Data on the heat pump operation and building conditions were to be collected over an entire heating season. Due to complications with the system, the amount of runtime data collected from …