Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering (설비공학논문집)

The Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea (대한설비공학회)
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An Experimental Study on the Performance Improvement of an R32 Inverter Heat Pump System

R32 인버터 히트펌프 시스템의 성능향상에 관한 실험적 연구

  • 박윤기 (LG전자 시스템 에어컨 연구소) ;
  • 하만영 (부산대학교 기계공학과)
  • Received : 2014.06.05
  • Accepted : 2014.09.29
  • Published : 2014.11.10
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Abstract

As global warming in recent years has raised ever more critical concern, refrigerants with high global warming potentials (GWP) are facing the challenge of being phased out. R410A, with a GWP of 2,088, has been widely used in residential air-conditioning and heat pump systems. A potential substitute for R410A is R32, which has a GWP of 675. The present study presents experimental results of an inverter heat pump system that uses R32 as an alternative refrigerant to R410A. Drop-in tests with R32 indicated that the energy efficiency ratio of the system increased by 5.3% in cooling standard mode, and by 4.2% in heating standard mode at the same capacity; and that the cooling and heating capacity increased by about 12% at the same compressor operating frequency, while the annual performance factor (APF) of the system increased by 5.3%.

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