Thermodynamic analysis of a two-stage binary-fluid ejector heat pump water heater

Pengtao Wang; Ahmad Abu-Heiba; Ramy H. Mohammed; Jeremy Spitzenberger; Stephen Kowalski; Hongbin Ma; Kashif Nawaz

doi:10.1016/j.tsep.2023.102050

Thermodynamic analysis of a two-stage binary-fluid ejector heat pump water heater

Pengtao Wang, Ahmad Abu-Heiba, Ramy H. Mohammed, Jeremy Spitzenberger, Stephen Kowalski, Hongbin Ma, Kashif Nawaz

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Ejector heat pump water heaters (EHPWHs) could significantly increase the thermal efficiency of domestic water heating and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This study addresses two major technical barriers to using EHPWHs in domestic water heating—low heating cycle coefficient of performance (COP) and low condensation temperatures—using binary fluid pairs as a working fluid in a two-stage ejector system. A comprehensive, geometry-free model of binary-fluid ejectors was built and validated to predict the entrainment ratios of binary-fluid ejectors. A thermodynamic model of a two-stage binary-fluid ejector EHPWH was built to predict the heating cycle COP of EHPWHs. The performance of the EHPWH was theoretically evaluated using HFE7000 and Novec649 as primary fluids and R600 and R1234ze(Z) as secondary fluids. HFE7000/R600 gave the highest heating cycle COP (i.e., 1.356) in producing domestic hot water at 60.0 °C. An optimum evaporation temperature of the primary fluid was identified for the maximum effective entrainment ratio and effective pressure lift ratio of two-stage ejectors. The effective entrainment ratio of the two-stage ejector dominated the heating cycle COP of the EHPWH. Primary fluids with lower latent heats of evaporation and/or secondary fluids with higher latent heats of evaporation yielded higher heating cycle COPs of EHPWHs.

Original language	English
Article number	102050
Journal	Thermal Science and Engineering Progress
Volume	44
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2023.102050
State	Published - Sep 1 2023

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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 (https://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). This work was sponsored by the US Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office under contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC. The authors would like to acknowledge the technology manager, Mr. Antonio Bouza, for his support.

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U.S. Department of Energy
Building Technologies Office	DE-AC05-00OR22725

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Binary fluid
Coefficient of performance
Ejector heat pump
Entrainment ratio
Thermodynamic model
Two-stage ejector

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