Journal
APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 169, Issue -, Pages 696-708Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.02.042
Keywords
Frost prevention; Frost retardation; Orthogonal experiment design (OED); Auxiliary electric heater (AEH)
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Funding
- Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate Studies [CX2013B160]
- International Science and Technology Cooperative Project of China [2010DFB63830]
- Major Science and Technology Projects of Hunan Province, China [2010FJ1013]
- Key Technology Research and Application of the Department of Construction in Hunan Province, China [KY201111]
- Science and Technology Support Program of National Twelve-Five [2011BAJ03B07]
- Major Science and Technology Projects of China [2015BAJ03B01]
- China Scholarship Council [201406130013]
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In this study, a novel technology of frost prevention and retardation for air source heat pump (ASHP), which reduces thermal discomfort, is introduced. It utilizes auxiliary electric heaters (AEH) on tubes before (B-AEH) and (or) after (A-AEH) the outdoor evaporator to retard frost formation or prevent frost from accumulating on the outdoor heat exchanger. This enables the supply of hot air into the interior space without interruption. This new method differs from the common high pressure hot gas bypass defrosting (HGBD) methods and the reverse cycle defrosting (RCD), both of which could result in significant temperature fluctuations and thermal discomfort. The orthogonal experiment design (OED) was applied in this study to evaluate the performance of the air source heat pump (ASHP) with different magnitudes of AEH power under a range of ambient frosting conditions. The L-25(5(6))orthogonal array was selected for the experiment and data were analyzed by means of the analysis of range (ANORA) and the analysis of variance (ANOVA). The optimum parameter combination affecting the performance of the ASHP was determined and the most significant parameters were identified. It was demonstrated that the proposed ASHP design is effective for frost prevention and retardation in real applications. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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