Publication detail

Influence of control strategy on seasonal coefficient of performance for a heat pump with low-temperature heat storage in the geographical conditions of Central Europe

KUDELA, L. ŠPILÁČEK, M. POSPÍŠIL, J.

Original Title

Influence of control strategy on seasonal coefficient of performance for a heat pump with low-temperature heat storage in the geographical conditions of Central Europe

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper presents a computational parametric study on increasing the Seasonal Coefficient of Performance (SCOP) for residential heat pumps. The studied system consists of a heat pump, low-temperature heat storage, and a control unit. The heat pump enables selection of a low-temperature heat source between ambient air and water in a tank. Two variants of low-temperature heat storage are tested, particularly, insulated-water heat storage and water heat storage sunken in soil. The study is further complemented with a test of selected algorithms for heat pump control: equithermal regulation, a binary algorithm for temperature source selection, a predictive algorithm for the heat storage discharging, and an algorithm for deferred heat storage discharging. A computational model of the system is made using Python. The assessment of HP operation is made based on meteorological data from the years 2008–2019 recorded in the city of Brno, Czech Republic, Central Europe. The results obtained show that using the approaches tested has the potential for increasing the SCOP. This increase reaches as much as 5.19% and it requires only a simple software change in the heat pump control algorithm and connection to meteorological data prediction.

Keywords

COP; Heat pump; Heat storage; Predictive control; Heat source

Authors

KUDELA, L.; ŠPILÁČEK, M.; POSPÍŠIL, J.

Released

18. 6. 2021

ISBN

0360-5442

Periodical

Energy

Number

234

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

121276

Pages to

121276

Pages count

12

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544221015243

BibTex

@article{BUT171893,
  author="Libor {Kudela} and Michal {Špiláček} and Jiří {Pospíšil}",
  title="Influence of control strategy on seasonal coefficient of performance for a heat pump with low-temperature heat storage in the geographical conditions of Central Europe",
  journal="Energy",
  year="2021",
  number="234",
  pages="121276--121276",
  doi="10.1016/j.energy.2021.121276",
  issn="0360-5442",
  url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544221015243"
}