...Hakan Caliskan; Arif Hepbasli; Ibrahim Dincer In this study, both energy and exergy analyses and sustainability assessment of a thermal energy storage system with a solar-ground coupled heat pump installed in a 120 m 2 house are performed. The actual operating data taken from the literature...

... exclusively from thermal energy from the solar collector field, (b) fossil-only: a double-effect absorption heat pump powered by gas supplies all of the heat required by the distillation plant, and (c) hybrid: the energy comes from both the heat pump and the solar field. In this paper, solar-only mode system...

....) or to be integrated in a solar heat pump heating system (Trinkl et al.). Furthermore, thermo-chemical heat storage is treated (v. Essen et al.), which is currently coming up in the research community as a new emerging concept to realize compact storage systems for seasonal storage. The second new research topic...

...Christoph Trinkl; Wilfried Zörner; Vic Hanby Both solar and heat pump heating systems are innovative technologies for sustaining ecological heat generation. They are gaining more and more importance due to the accelerating pace of climate change and the rising cost of limited fossil resources...

... to determine the benefits of using PCM. A Trombe wall was added in both concrete cubicles and its influence was investigated. All brick cubicles were equipped with domestic heat pumps as Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system; therefore, the energy consumption was registered, providing real...

... simulated and analyzed. To meet the same building energy demand in Beijing, such as heating, air conditioning, gas, and electricity, different energy equipments, such as boiler, combined heating and power, combined cooling, heating, and power system, and heat pump based on different energy sources...

...Bong H. Kim; Dennis L. O’Neal An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effect of electronic flow control on the performance of a variable-speed heat pump. A heat pump with two different expansion devices (capillary tube and electronic expansion valve) was tested in a psychrometric...

...Sadasuke Ito; Naokatsu Miura; Yasushi Takano An aluminum roll-bond panel with a photovoltaic module on the surface was developed recently for use as an evaporator of a heat pump for residential hot water supply and room heating [Proceedings of the JSES/JWEA Joint Conference, Okinawa, pp. 305–308...

..., as it utilizes best the strong points of the desiccant system. Under this option, the solar powered desiccant system deals with the latent heat load, due mainly to the fresh air, while an auxiliary electric-powered heat pump deals with the remaining sensible load. A parametric study was conducted...

... 2004 heat pumps heat recovery absorption air conditioning humidity control evaporation mass transfer heat transfer Dehumidifier Evaporator Regenerator Absorber Cooling Air Conditioning This paper is concerned with an experimental system constructed to test the concept...

.... The storage volumetric efficiency is greater than a water/ice system and far exceeds the value for a liquid water system. The proposed system, which uses an external heat pump as a source of generator heat, is also compared to another LiBr / H 2 O system that uses a self-contained internal heat pump...

...Andrew D. Chiasson; Jeffrey D. Spitler; Simon J. Rees; Marvin D. Smith The thermal loads of commercial and institutional buildings are generally cooling-dominated. When such buildings use ground source heat pump systems (GSHP) they reject more heat to the ground-loop heat exchanger than...