Abstract
Compression-type heat pumps have been employed in many fields of refrigeration and air conditioning for achieving energy savings. In addition, the system operates at high efficiency under a variety of operating conditions throughout the year through various innovative components, such as the inverter, and the annual performance improvement. However, the running time of the system over the year under low load conditions is very long, and under such conditions, the system operates intermittently because of the difficulty in the continuous running of the compressor. Of course, because intermittent driving is made under such an operating condition, the performance can estimate that it decreases greatly easily, but it is the present conditions that field operation performance does not become clear almost. Therefore, the key goals of this study were to clarify the intermittent driving performance of the compression-type heat pump and to devise a way to improve its performance and develop an optimum operation method. As the first step, we constructed a mathematical model that can predict intermittent driving characteristics at the time of low load of the pump, which are crucial to investigation of the performance. The constructed model was validated experimentally. In summary, a mathematical model of the compression-type heat pump was constructed, and its validity was demonstrated via comparison of its results with those obtained experimentally.
