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A novel defrosting initiating strategy for automotive air conditioner heat pumps based on frost thickness growth prediction.

Author(s) : CHEN J., WU J., HE J., GUO Z.

Type of article: IJR article

Summary

Automotive air conditioning heat pump systems draw increasing attention as an alternative to conventional electric heaters. Once the air temperature falls below the freezing point, frost begins to form on the surface of the evaporator. The accurate defrost strategies could avoid heat exchange efficiency reduction and prevent heating capacity from decaying, which are the main factors affecting the energy efficiency of electric vehicle heat pump systems. The frost characteristic on micro-channel heat exchanger of the electric vehicle heat pump system is tested, and a novel defrosting strategy which is based on the dimensionless analysis method is introduced too. Conclusions could be drawn as following: a correlation that considers the effects of ambient parameters and structural parameters has been developed to predict the frost thickness on fins with dimensionless analyses. Based on this correlation, the relative error and the RMS error between the experimental data and the predicted value are 8.44% and 12.54%, respectively; the effective blockage ratio (EBR), a parameter that accurately reflects the blockage ratio and directly linked to the system operation state, is first proposed. Through the analysis between the EBR and system heating capacity, it can be concluded that the optimal defrosting start-point is identified as the EBR reaches 30%. With this method, the defrosting start-time can be found accurately and effectively to avoid unnecessary defrost cycles, thus leading to a highly efficient operation and low energy consumption for the electric vehicle heat pump system.

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  • Original title: A novel defrosting initiating strategy for automotive air conditioner heat pumps based on frost thickness growth prediction.
  • Record ID : 30029351
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Technology
  • Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 134
  • Publication date: 2022/02
  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2021.11.008
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