Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Mechanical Engineering
Heat Pump Evaluation And Design For The Irish Climate, Jim Mcgovern
Heat Pump Evaluation And Design For The Irish Climate, Jim Mcgovern
Other resources
The work of this thesis concerns the application of heat pumps to domestic space heating in Ireland. Only small air-source electric-powered vapour compression plants using fluorocarbon refrigerants are considered. Tests have been carried out on an air-to-air heat pump unit with a rated heat output of 3 kW. The performance characteristics of each of the system components have been determined from the test results. Computer programs have been written to calculate performance figures for theoretical heat pump cycles and refrigerants 12, 22 and 502 have been compared with one another on the basis of theoretical performance. A computer program has …