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A theoretical refrigerant charge prediction equation for air source heat pump system based on sensor information.

Author(s) : HONG S. B., YOO J. W., KIM M. S.

Type of article: Article, IJR article

Summary

The performance of the heat pump system varies greatly depending on the refrigerant charge amount. However, the refrigerant in the system slowly leaks during operation. Therefore, in order to guarantee system performance and life span, it is important to predict the charge amount in real time and recharge the shortage. Nevertheless, since the configuration and control of the heat pump system becomes more complicated, it is very difficult to predict the refrigerant charge amount. Various previous studies have been carried out to predict refrigerant charge amount, but most of them are empirical methods or theo- retical, but require much experimental data for high accuracy. In this paper, a refrigerant charge amount prediction method which requires only a few experimental data for high prediction accuracy is proposed through theoretical analysis of the refrigerant charge. The proposed method was verified by experiments, and the root mean square error was 3.7% in cooling mode and 8.2% in heating mode.

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  • Original title: A theoretical refrigerant charge prediction equation for air source heat pump system based on sensor information.
  • Record ID : 30026642
  • Languages: English
  • Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 104
  • Publication date: 2019/08
  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2019.05.031

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