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Effects of refrigerant charge amount on the performance of a transcritical CO2 heat pump.

Author(s) : CHO H., RYU C., KIM Y., et al.

Type of article: Article, IJR article

Summary

A typical transcritical CO2 system shows lower performance than conventional air conditioners in the cooling mode operation. In addition, the CO2 system shows a large variation of the performance according to the refrigerant charge whereas the conventional systems do not show large variation. In this study, the performance of the CO2 heat pump is measured and analyzed by varying the refrigerant charge amount at standard cooling condition. In addition, the performance sensitivity of the CO2 system as a function of refrigerant charge is compared to those for the R22, R410A, and R407C systems. The cooling COP of the CO2 system is reduced more significantly at undercharged conditions than at overcharged conditions as the deviation from the optimal charge increased. The expansion loss is the dominant factor affecting system performance at undercharged conditions, while the gas cooler loss become the major parameter at overcharged conditions. Among the systems investigated and compared in this study, the CO2 system shows the most reduction in performance at undercharged conditions.

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  • Original title: Effects of refrigerant charge amount on the performance of a transcritical CO2 heat pump.
  • Record ID : 2006-0961
  • Languages: English
  • Source: International Journal of Refrigeration - Revue Internationale du Froid - vol. 28 - n. 8
  • Publication date: 2005/12

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