A heat pump with thermal storage system is a system that operates a heat pump during night-time using inexpensive electricity; during this time, the generated thermal energy is stored in a thermal storage tank. The stored thermal energy is used by the heat pump during daytime. Based on a model of a dual latent heat storage tank and a heat pump, this study conducts control simulations using both...

Gas driven Vuilleumier heat pump is a closed cycle, where the working gas is kept inside the three cylinders and the heat of gas and surroundings are added to and removed from the cycle through heat exchanger. It has many advantages, such as fewer moving parts, low noise and long lifespan. Competitive to absorption cycle, It has the potential for higher Coefficient of Performance (COP). A proto...

An evaluation of a variety of efficient water heating strategies for an all-electric single family home located in a mixed-humid climate is conducted using numerical modeling. The strategies considered include various combinations of solar thermal, heat pump, and electric resistance water heaters. The numerical model used in the study is first validated against a year of field data obtained on ...

We present the exact analysis of a chiral Brownian motor and heat pump. Optimization of the construction predicts, for a nanoscale device, frequencies of the order of kHz and cooling rates of the order of femtojoule per second.

s (200 300 words) covering the themes of the Conference can be submitted on the website www. hpc2017.org from 1st December 2015 onwards until 31st March 2016. The abstracts will be screened and authors will contacted and be advised of acceptance by 30th June 2016. Full papers will be required by 30th November 2016. The 12th IEA Heat Pump Conference starts on Monday starts with a series of Works...

The design and response of ground source heat pumps coupled to vertical closed loop arrays in UK domestic applications are investigated in this article. Two typical UK house types are selected as the vehicle for the study and a detailed dynamic thermal modelling method is used to arrive at time-series heating demands for the two houses. A new empirical heat pump model is derived using experimen...

This paper presents simulations of the integral coefficients of performance of a heat pump system coupled with a vertical ground heat exchanger (GHE). The GHE is simulated using different assumptions concerning the heat transfer in the ground, heat exchange between the ground and the brine and vertical variation of the brine temperature. The differences in the predicted performance coefficients...