Paper No 1037 – Design methodology of vapor compression heat pump module in Smart Thermal Energy Design platform – 14th IEA Heat Pump Conference, Chicago, USA
A design platform, namely Smart Thermal Energy Design Platform (STED platform), for thermal energy-intensive industrial facilities is being developed for any user with an intuitive interface and smart guide during design process. Among design modules in STED platform, the vapor compression heat pump design module gives suitable design results for heat pumps under the given operation conditions. The module can model three heat pump layouts: basic, internal heat exchanger, and injection. To validate the design results from the module, a lab-scale heat pump experimental device, namely heat pump simulator, was made based on the calculation results from the heat pump design module. As a result, the calculated performance from the platform and the measured performance from the simulator had an error of 0.1% in terms of mean COP for 30minutes.