Performance evaluation of heat pump dryer

Experimental Investigation of a Heat Pump Assisted Fluidized Bed Dryer

The drying or dehydration is the controlled heating of food products to evaporate quantified amount of moisture that is originally present in it. Drying of food products is essential to enhance the shelf life of the product without quality losses over an extended period of time. It is an energy intensive process. The fluidized bed dryer with heat pump is one of the efficient method to reduce th...

Performance evaluation of irreversible cascaded refrigeration and heat pump cycles

This communication presents finite time thermodynamic optimization of irreversible cascaded refrigeration and heat pump cycles having source/sink thermal reservoirs of finite heat capacitance. A general expression for the optimum coefficient of performance of the refrigerator/heat pump is derived at minimum power input and given cooling/heating load conditions, respectively. External irreversib...

Measured Performance of Heat Pump Clothes Dryers

Within a 53 home monitored sample, long-term energy use of electric resistance clothes dryers was sub-metered. Average measured dryer energy use was 3% of total household energy or 814 kWh/year. Hourly dryer electrical demand profile showed large coincidence with utility summer afternoon peak and significant increases over weekends versus weekdays. After collection of baseline data, electric re...

Performance Comparison of Hydronic Secondary Loop Heat Pump and Conventional Air-Source Heat Pump

In residential heat pump systems, the motivation for secondary loop systems is to allow for the use of flammable or toxic refrigerants with lower global warming potentials than the currently employed HFC refrigerants. The addition of radiant panels as integral building components (embedded in concrete at construction or attached to the underside of wood flooring) is becoming more common. Combin...

Performance Evaluation of a Two-Stage Compression Heat Pump System With Refrigerant Charge and EEV Opening