Thermal performance of an absorption-assisted two-stage ejector air-to-water heat pump

Pengtao Wang; Hongbin Ma; Jeremy Spitzenberger; Ahmad Abu-Heiba; Kashif Nawaz

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113761

Thermal performance of an absorption-assisted two-stage ejector air-to-water heat pump

Pengtao Wang, Hongbin Ma, Jeremy Spitzenberger, Ahmad Abu-Heiba, Kashif Nawaz

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Abstract

A gas-fired air-to-water ejector heat pump (EHP) for domestic hot water production is proposed and analyzed thermodynamically. The COP of the EHP is improved by using binary fluids (HFE7500 and water), and the high backpressure in the primary ejector (first-stage) is actively controlled by either a second-stage ejector and/or a LiBr-H₂O absorption subsystem. A thermodynamic model is established for analysis and performance evaluation. A case study shows the backpressure of the first-stage ejector is reduced by 53.5%, and the backpressure control using the second-stage ejector increases the system COP by 21.0% compared with that using LiBr-H₂O absorption. Parametric studies are conducted to investigate the roles of the first-stage ejector, the second-stage ejector, and the LiBr-H₂O absorption subsystem. The first-stage ejector plays a dominant role in the EHP system performance. The EHP's heating COP can reach 2.0 with an entrainment ratio of 0.12 in the first-stage ejector. EHP performance can be improved with a high entrainment ratio and a low-temperature primary working fluid in the first-stage and second-stage ejectors, a low condensation temperature in the first-stage ejector, and a high generating temperature and a low concentration of the LiBr-H₂O solution.

Original language	English
Article number	113761
Journal	Energy Conversion and Management
Volume	230
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113761
State	Published - Feb 15 2021

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Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ). This material is based upon work supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Building Technologies Office. This research used resources of the Building Technologies Research and Integration Center of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

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U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Building Technologies Office

Keywords

Binary fluid ejector
Ejector backpressure control
Ejector heat pump water heater
Heat pump
LiBr-HO absorption
Two-stage ejector

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