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- Teaching: Completely taught in English
- ECTS: 6
- Level: Graduate
- Semester: Winter
- Prerequisites:
- Basic of Thermodynamics
- Load:
Lectures Exercises Laboratory exercises Project laboratory Physical education excercises Field exercises Seminar Design exercises Practicum 45 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 - Course objectives:
- Principle of left-handed processes; cooling and heating mode of heat pump; application of renewable energy sources in heating and cooling systems using heat pumps; measurements on the real heat pump systems; energy analyses, seasonal performance factor, economy analyses
- Student responsibilities:
- Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:
- Appropriate attendance of classes (meaning both, lectures, exercises, measurements) and student"s feedback will constitute 30% of the final mark, while the outcome of the home works and oral presentation of the seminars will account for the rest (70%).
- Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:
- Interactive work with student during lectures and seminars. Consultations during preparation of final project.
- Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):
- After successfully completing the course, the student will be able to to verify theoretical and practically applicable knowledge about heat pumps as high efficiency system for heating and cooling using renewable energy sources, to establish the calculation of heat pumps in heating and cooling mode, to establish calculation of the ground source heat pump (air to water heat pump) according to standard HRN EN 15316-4-2, to compare the heat pumps with conventional heating and cooling systems, to implement the practical works on the real test systems (air source heat pumps, ground source heat pump and solar assisted heat pump) in the lab of Applied thermodynamics, to recommend optimal design of the thermotechnical heat pump system.
- Lectures
- 1. Thermodynamical fundamentals and definitions of refrigeration (Carnot refrigeration cycle)
- 2. Classification of the systems according to compensating energy: compression, sorption.
- 3. Principle of vapour compression cycle; Cooling and Heating Regimes for heating pumps
- 4. Cooling and heating systems (Compressor refrigeration capacity; Compressor and evaporator balancing; Compressor power consumption)
- 5. Refrigerants (Properties of the refrigerants, Influence of refrigerants to environment)
- 6. Components of the system.
- 7. Renewable energy sources for heat pumps
- 8. Solar heat pumps - Energy balance
- 9. Air source heat pumps.
- 10. Ground source heat pumps.
- 11. Thermal response test - TRT
- 12. Industrial heat pumps
- 13. Methodology for calculating seasonal performance factor via recent standards
- 14. Comparison of the heat pump technology to the conventional heating and cooling systems.
- 15. Study visit
- Exercises
- 1. Carnot refrigeration cycle
- 2. Coefficient of performance, Energy efficiency ratio
- 3. Calculation of cooling and heating processes
- 4. Indirect cooling and heating systems
- 5. Heat pumps - Simulation
- 6. Heat pumps - Design of the components
- 7. Design of geothermal heat pumps
- 8. Practical work - Solar heat pump
- 9. Practical work - Air source heat pump
- 10. Practical work - Geothermal heat pump
- 11. Calculation and determination of the ground thermal properties
- 12. Calculation of the cascade heat pumps
- 13. Calculating seasonal performance factor-energy efficiency ratio (HRN EN 15316-4-2)
- 14. Economic analysis for heat pump usage
- 15. Presentation of seminars
- Compulsory literature:
- J. Egg, G. Cunniff, C.D. Orio, Modern geothermal HVAC, McGraw- Hill, 2013.
ASHRAE Handbook, Refrigeration, Atlanta, 2018 (2014).
Soldo, V., Handbook for energy certification of buildings, Editors: B
Pavković, V. Zanki, UNDP Croatia, Chapter: Refrigeration systems and heat pumps, equipment and components, pp. 577-634., Zagreb, 2010
I. Dincer, M. Kanoglu: Refrigeration Systems and Applications, Wiley 2010.
S.K. Wang: Handbook of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, McGraw-Hill 2000.
E. Silberstein: Heat Pumps, Delmar Learning 2002.
E. Granryd: Introduction to Refrigerating Engineering, Part I&II, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2005. - Recommended literature:
- Standars from the field of refrigeration and heat pumps(HRN EN 14511; HRN EN 15316-4-2)
R. Ciconkov, Refigeration - Solved examples, University Sv Kiril i Metodij, Skopje 2001