THERMAL SCIENCE

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AIR-SOURCE HEAT PUMP PERFORMANCE COMPARISON IN DIFFERENT REAL OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS BASED ON ADVANCED EXERGY AND EXERGOECONOMIC APPROACH

ABSTRACT
The use of air-source heat pumps (ASHP) is increasing to meet the energy needs of residential buildings, and manufacturers of equipment have permanently expanded the range of work and improved the efficiency in very adverse outdoor air conditions. However, in the time of a wide range of different technologies, the problem of using ASHP, from a techno-economic point of view, is constantly present. Exergetic efficiency and exergoeconomic cost no longer provide sufficiently reliable information when it is necessary to reduce the investment costs or in-crease the energy/exergetic efficiency of the component/system. This paper presents comparison of ASHP in different operational conditions based on an advanced exergy and exergoeconomic approach. The advanced exergy analysis splits the destruction of exergy for each individual component into avoidable and unavoidable part in order to fully understand the processes. The information of stream costs is used to calculate exergoeconomic variables associated with each system component. Irreversibility in the compressor have the greatest impact on reducing the overall system exergetic efficiency by 46.7% during underfloor heating (UFH) operation and 24.53% during domestic hot water (DHW) operation. Exergy loss reduces exergetic efficiency by 5.72% UFH and 39.74% DHW. High values of exergoeconomic cost for both operating regimes are present in flows 1, 2, 3 and 4 due to high costs of production and relatively small exergy levels. The general recommendation is to set the ASHP to operate with near-optimal capacities in both regimes and then reduce exergy of flows 1, 2, 5, 11, and 13.
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PAPER SUBMITTED: 2020-05-29
PAPER REVISED: 2020-07-14
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2020-08-07
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2020-09-06
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI200529237V
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2021, VOLUME 25, ISSUE Issue 3, PAGES [1849 - 1866]
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