Thermodynamic Analysis of Solar Driven Vuilleumier Cycle Heat Pump

Abstract:

Because the refrigerant can cause serious damage to the ozone layer and form the greenhouse effect, developing green environmental protection refrigeration technology has become a consensus. Based on the view, this paper puts forward a new device called the solar energy driven VM cycle heat pump which used the natural working materials—nitrogen as the refrigerant and the clean energy—solar as the driven energy. According to build the thermodynamic model, the influence of heat source temperature on the ideal cycle has been analysed. And COP of the solar driven the VM cycle heat pump will be received. With the city of Beijing, for example, the device refrigeration COP can reach at least 1.4.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 455-456)
• Pages: 252-257
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.455-456.252
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Jian Cheng Tang, Bing Li, Yu Wu, Ying Bai Xie
• Keywords: COP, Heat Pump, Solara Driven, Vuilleumier Cycle

References

[1] Yezheng WU. Principles of Refrigeration and Cryogenic Technology. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2004. 8.

[2] Deqian XUE. Solar Energy Refrigeration Technology [M]. Beijing: Chemical Industry Press, (2006).

[3] Carlsen, H. Development of a new 20 kW gas fired heat pump based on the Vuilleumier cycle,. Proceedings of the 25th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1990, (2): 233-238.

DOI: 10.1109/iecec.1990.716575

[4] Kuhl, H. -D., Schulz, S, Thomas, B. Conversion of a crank-driven vuilleumier heat pump into a free piston machine,. Proceedings of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, v 2, Environmental Impact, Energy Systems, New Technology for Energy Utilization, Policy Issues, Renewable Energy Sources, Stirling Cycles, 1993: 609-614.

DOI: 10.2514/6.1994-4182

[5] Okamoto Izumi, Katohno Ryouichi, Nakazato Takashi. Development of a Vuilleumier cycle heat pump system,. Proceedings of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1991, (2): 516-521.

[6] Pfeffer, Th., Kuehl, H. -D., Schulz, S. Development and experimental investigation of new concepts for regenerators of regenerative gas cycles-exemplary for Vuilleumier heat pumps,. Engineering Research, 2000, 65(9): 257-272.

[7] Kawajiri Kazuhiko, Honda Tetsuya, Sugimoto Teruo. Study of free piston Vuilleumier heat pump (performance characteristics of prototype machine at forced vibration),. Nippon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B, 1996, 62(598): 2430-2437.

DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.62.2430

[8] Yingbai XIE, Cheng ZHAO, Chuntao LIU, Xiuzhi HUANG. Influence of Heat Source Temperature on COP of the VM Cycle Gas Heat Pump ,. Fluid Machinery, 2008, 11(36): 83-85.

[9] Guobang CHEN, Ke TANG．Principles of Small Low-temperature Refrigerator. Beijing：Science Press, (2010).