Dai Baomin Miao Ronghua Zhao Weiqi Liu Chenghao Han Jilei Wang Yu,Zhang Tong Liu Shengchun.Experimental Study on a Transcritical CO2 Heat Pump System Integrated with Mechanical Subcooling Using R290 as the Working Fluid[J].Journal of Refrigeration,
Dai Baomin Miao Ronghua Zhao Weiqi Liu Chenghao Han Jilei Wang Yu,Zhang Tong Liu Shengchun.Experimental Study on a Transcritical CO2 Heat Pump System Integrated with Mechanical Subcooling Using R290 as the Working Fluid[J].Journal of Refrigeration,DOI:10.12465/issn.0253-4339.20251103003.
Experimental Study on a Transcritical CO2 Heat Pump System Integrated with Mechanical Subcooling Using R290 as the Working Fluid
An experimental setup that uses R290 as the working fluid for the dedicated mechanical subcooling of a transcritical CO₂ heat pump system (DMS) was developed and evaluated in this study. The results were compared with those of the conventional baseline C
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heat pump system (base). The results revealed that there is an optimal discharge pressure and subcooling degree for the system. Under the operating conditions of an evaporation temperature of 5 ℃ and supply/return water temperature of 50/30 ℃, the DMS system achieved the maximum coefficient of performance(COP) of 3.89, with the corresponding optimal discharge pressure and subcooling degree being 8.4 MPa and 17.3 ℃, respectively. With an increase in the supply/return water temperature, the maximum COP values of both the DMS and base systems exhibited a gradually decreasing trend. Further, the relative COP improvement rate of the DMS system with respect to the base system increased progressively, and the corresponding optimal discharge pressure increased gradually for both systems. The COP of the DMS system remained consistently higher than that of the base system, whereas the optimal discharge pressure was consistently lower than that of the base system. As the supply/return water temperature was increased from 50/30 ℃ to 58/38 ℃, the COP improvement rate increased from 9.6% to 16.7%. Additionally, the power consumption ratio of the R290 compressor to that of the CO
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compressor exhibited an increasing trend, rising from 21.0% to 27.7%. This study provides an experimental reference for enhancing the energy efficiency of CO
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