About project 66

Project goal: Accelerate the development and acceptance of residential heat pumps through collecting best practices and data from around the world.

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Background

With all of the effort being made around the world towards residential heat pump development, from research groups to legislators to OEMs, a consolidation and summary of the state of the art and best practices would bring all stakeholders  further forward. Furthermore, a common heat pump design concept, platform, and basis protocol would help to reduce the barrier to entry as well as to increase the efficiency of resulting components and systems. Along the same lines, a platform to share steady-state and transient data from laboratory and field measurements would significantly improve the ability of designers and modelers to validate and improve their simulations, thus improving both the rate and quality of heat pump development.  

Implementing heat pumps that are designed for use with low-GWP refrigerants addresses these goals in terms of both direct and indirect CO2 emissions. The primary aim of this Project is to increase the accessibility of experimental data, design best practices, and simulation tools for residential heat pumps to increase their implementation around the world.

Objective

The goal of this Project is to bring an international team together to help collect and develop optimal heat pump designs, control strategies, and experimental data based on a common system understanding.

Activities

Primary activities are to collect, analyze and optimize heat pump design and control methods from around the world, with open-source publication of test data, source code, and publications.

  1. Collect and Consolidate State of the Art: Design of heat pumps
  2. Collect and Consolidate State of the Art: Operation of heat pumps
  3. Analyze: Comparison of design techniques
  4. Analyze: Comparison of control techniques
  5. Optimize: Design improvements
  6. Optimize: Control improvements
  7. Summarize Findings

Operating Agent & Contact Person

Riley Barta, bartar@purdue.edu, Purdue University, USA

Participants

  • USA
    • Purdue University
    • Oak Ridge National Laboratories
    • Trane Technologies
    • Mitsubishi Research
    • UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center
    • NREL
    • Rheem
    • University of Maryland – CEEE
  • Germany (deputy – RWTH Aachen, Christian Vering)
    • RWTH Aachen
    • TU Dresden
    • Fraunhofer ISE
    • Copeland
    • Viessmann
    • BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing)
    • ILK Dresden
    • Vaillant Group
  • Spain
    • Polytechnic University of Valencia
  • Sweden
    • KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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