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Combined effects of refrigerant leakages and fouling on air-source heat pump performances in cooling mode

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Combined effects of refrigerant leakages and fouling on air-source heat pump performances in cooling mode
المؤلفون: Pelella F., Viscito L., Mauro A. W.
المساهمون: Pelella, F., Viscito, L., Mauro, A. W.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: IRIS Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
مصطلحات موضوعية: Air-source heat pump, Fault detection and diagnosi, Heat exchanger fouling, Maintenance, Refrigerant leakage
الوصف: For electric heat pump systems (EHP), soft faults such as refrigerant leakages and heat exchangers fouling can lead to significant performance degradations, which can remain unidentified for a long period. This paper, through a digital model, wants to simulate the cooling season behavior of a case study air-source heat pump for residential air-conditioning, analyzing the performance degradation in case of both standalone and simultaneous occurrence of soft faults. The study is carried-out in different scenarios of not planned and ordinary maintenance of the machine and in typical climate conditions of Naples, Miami and Shanghai. The impact of faults on seasonal performances (SCOP) and total equivalent warming impact (TEWI) has also been analyzed. Results show that refrigerant leakages can have an impact on system performance higher than 25%, whereas heat exchangers fouling can downgrade the efficiency of approximately 15%. It is also found that, for each climate condition, a different maintenance strategy can halve the cases with SCOP penalization higher than 10%. Since faults have not the same probability of occurrence, a smart monitoring and a fault detection system can be the solution to guarantee good performances avoiding at the same time excessive maintenance costs.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
Relation: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000763758200002; volume:204; firstpage:117965; journal:APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING; http://hdl.handle.net/11588/866360; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85121637151
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117965
الاتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/11588/866360
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117965
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.1AEC5F5E
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117965