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Industrial Heat Pumps Using Solid/Vapor Working Fluids
Abstract
Industrial heat pumps have the
potential to reduce the operating costs of
chemical and heat treating processes in the
chemical, petroleum, paper, dairy, and many
other industries. The cost development of
fossil fuel and other prime energy require
excellent efficiency/cost ratios and
hardware designs adaptable to specific
process needs, in order to compete with
vapor re-compression recovery systems.
The state-of-the-art heat pump
equipment employing liquid/vapor working
fluids fulfills the requirements only in
some applications.
The employment of solid/vapor complex
compounds leads to more cost effective heat
recovery, which is due to simple hardware
with no moving parts, extraordinary low
maintenance effort, excellent temperature
lifts avoiding the need of two-stage
systems, and low first cost.
This paper describes the advantages
and disadvantages of solid/vapor working
media.
Subject
Industrial Heat PumpsSolid/Vapor Working Fluids
Heat Recovery
Computer Modeling
Cost Predictions
Collections
Citation
Rockenfeller, U. (1986). Industrial Heat Pumps Using Solid/Vapor Working Fluids. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /93028.