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[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: How to model an air-cooled scroll-type heat pump
Dr. Li,
Thank you for your reply!
As you said, "Heatpump is usually operated with air to air, with the evaporator and compressor coil switched around for coolant and heating in a location that the Winter is not very cold. For a large capacity heatpump, then water is used to feed the AHU coils, and the condenser loop provides more cooling and may use water to feed a tower to help cooling."
The above is exactly our design. The only thing is that we don't have a cooling tower. We do feed water to the AUH coils. However, on the condenser side, it is still air-cooled.
In fact, the system is not complex at all. We just don't know how to model it in E+. There is GSHP in the E+ example files. We believe that the only different is that our design does not use ground source for heat rejection. We simply use outdoor air as the heat sink.
On the scroll compressor thing, you are right, it is just that the performance curve is different.
Our main difficult is that we don't know how to model an air-cooled heat pump which produces hot and chilled water to carry heat to the AHU in EnergyPlus.
Thank you!
--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, YuanLu Li <yli006@...> wrote:
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> May I ask what is a "scroll type" compressor. I have not check the data base folder for this type. I think, it is only the performance curves are different in the simulation. As far as I know, it does not matter whether it is a heat pump or an EIR when it is used for chiller only. Condenser is to air, therefore, no condenser loop is required.Your design is a simple water chiller. Coil water to air, means the coil is water and the air flows through the coil surface. If the coolant flows in the coil, then it is a DX coil. Heatpump is usually operated with air to air, with the evaporator and compressor coil switched around for coolant and heating in a location that the Winter is not very cold. For a large capacity heatpump, then water is used to feed the AHU coils, and the condenser loop provides more cooling and may use water to feed a tower to help cooling. Dr. Li
> To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: xing.shi.2006@...
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:59:11 +0000
> Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] How to model an air-cooled scroll-type heat pump
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> We are considering using the object Coil:Cooling:WaterToAirHeatPump:ParameterEstimation and Coil:Heating:WaterToAirHeatPump:ParameterEstimation to model the system. However, in the E+ example file folder we could only find examples with ground source heat exchanger as the heat sink. In our case, the heat pump is air-cooled, which means the heat sink is outdoor air. We don't know how to model that. Or, we should use another object?
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