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http://dx.doi.org/10.17664/ksgee.2015.11.1.015

Influence of Low Stage Refrigerant Charge Amount on the Performance of Cascade Heat Pump  

Park, Seung Byung (Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Hanbant National University)
Choi, Jong Min (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanbant National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy / v.11, no.1, 2015 , pp. 15-20 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, the optimization and performance characteristics of a cascade heat pump system was analyzed with the variation of low stage refrigerant charge amount. The cascade heat pump was designed and constructed with R134a and R410A as the refrigerant for high stage and low stage cycle, respectively. Experiments were conducted by varying the low stage charge amount and the performance characteristics of the cascade heat pump were studied. The refrigerant charge amount of the low stage cycle was varied between the ranges of -15% and +10% of the optimum charge amount. The performance variation experienced in the cascade heat pump due to the variation of refrigerant charge amount shows greater effect in the undercharge regions than the overcharge regions. COP reduction in the undercharge region is larger than the decrease in the overcharge region. Some cycle variation such as power consumption and cycle pressure according to low stage refrigerant charge amount showed different trends comparing with those according to high stage refrrgerant charge amount. Therefore, the optimum charge amount of the cascade heat pump should be determined based on the experimental data obtained by the variation of high and low stage refrigerant charge amount.
Keywords
Cascade heat pump; Charge amount; COP;
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