12 th IEA HEAT PUMP Conference Paper number O1.2.4 A New Dedicated Outdoor Air System with Exhaust Air heat recovery GREATLAB Zi-Yang Zhang, Xiang Cao, Zhi Yang, Liang-Liang Shao, Chun-Lu Zhang, Yue Yu Speaker: Xiang Cao Tongji University, Shanghai, China May 15, 2017
A New Dedicated Outdoor Air System with Exhaust Air heat recovery Background Exhaust air heat recovery module for ASHP Modeling approach and validation System performance analysis Conclusions 2
Background Dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS) Tasks of dedicated outdoor air system ü Ventilation ü Air filtration and disinfection ü Cooling and dehumidification in summer ü Heating in winter u Heat recovery from exhaust air 3
Background Air source heat pump in DOAS Air source heat pump (ASHP) for OA cooling and heating Frost on outdoor coil in winter Without heat recovery from exhaust air Outdoor Air (OA) Indoor Coil Supply Air (SA) Exhaust Air (EA) Outdoor Coil Return Air (RA) 4
Exhaust air heat recovery module for ASHP Return air Supply air Pressure regulating valve Heat recovery module EA coil EXV Compressor Exhaust air coil Outdoor coil EXV Cooling EXV Supply air coil Outdoor coil Exhaust air Outdoor air 5
Winter operation Winter operation at warm condition ü Frost-free operation when evaporating temperature is over frost point ü High heating COP because exhaust air is high quality heat source ü Make full use of the sensible and latent heat of exhaust air for outdoor air heating Return air DB= 22 C Supply air DB=28 C 6.4 EA coil EXV 3.2 Compressor Exhaust air coil Supply air coil P (MkPa) 1.6 0.8 0.4 150 210 270 330 390 450 510 H (kj/kg) Exhaust air Outdoor air 6
Winter operation Winter operation at extra-low ambient temperature ü Heating capacity increasing due to dual heat source ü Low-frost or frost-free operation with two evaporating temperature Return air DB= 22 C Supply air DB=28 C Pressure regulating valve Compressor EA coil EXV Exhaust air coil Outdoor coil EXV Supply air coil Outdoor coil Exhaust air Outdoor air 7
Dual evaporating pressure Winter operation at extra-low ambient temperature n Outdoor coil could be light frost even frost-free, because the air would be very dry at extra low ambient temperature (ISO 16358: when the ambient temperature is lower than -7 C, the frost effect could be ignored in APF calculation) n The evaporating temperature of exhaust air coil is kept above frost point by the pressure regulation valve 6.4 3.2 P (MkPa) 1.6 0.8 P e of Exhaust Air Coil P e of Outdoor Coil Pressure regulation valve 0.4 180 240 300 360 420 480 540 H (kj/kg) 8
Summer operation Summer operation with exhaust air heat recovery module ü Condensing pressure decreased by exhaust air RA DB= 27 C SA DB=11 C Compressor EA coil EXV Exhaust air coil Outdoor condenser Cooling EXV Evaporator EA OA DB=35 C 9
Prototype design Design condition of the new DOAS Heating mode Cooling mode Return air (Dry-bulb/ Wet-bulb) 22 C / 17.8 C 27 C / 19 C Outdoor air (Dry-bulb/ Wet-bulb) 7 C / 6 C 35 C / 28 C Supply air 28 C 11 C Supply air flow rate 400 m 3 /h 400 m 3 /h Exhaust air flow rate 320 m 3 /h 320 m 3 /h 10
Modeling approach In-house software GREATLAB for component selection and design Air Refrigerant Outdoor Fan Outdoor coil EXV Outdoor coil Exhaust air (EA) Exhaust Fan Return air (RA) EA coil EXV Exhaust air coil Supply air coil Pressure regulation valve Suction line Liquid line Discharge line Compressor Outdoor air (OA) Supply fan Supply air (SA) 11
Modeling approach Specifications of the optimum system Name Specification Simulation model type Refrigerant R410A REFPROP Compressor Rotary, variable-speed Curve-fitting model Expansion device Electronic expansion valves (EXVs) Manufacturer curve Outdoor condenser Exhaust air coil Evaporator Reheating coil Fan 7 mm tube; 3 rows; FL = 800mm 8 mm tube; 8 rows; FL = 200mm 8 mm tube; 10 rows; FL= 250mm 8 mm tube; 1 row; FL=250mm Two centrifugal fans for EA and OA, One axial fan for outdoor condenser Incremental tube-by-tube model Manufacturer curve Note: Fin length is for short with FL 12
Prototype and model validation Prototype was tested in a standard psychrometric testing room Reheating coil Outdoor condenser Exhaust air coil Evaporator Compressor 13
Prototype and model validation Cooling and heating COP of prototype achieved 3.21 and 4.71 at design conditions Cooling design condition Heating design condition Parameters Simulation Test Error Simulation Test Error capacity / kw 7.29 7.18 +1.5 % 3.25 3.30-1.5 % Total power / kw 2.22 2.24-0.9 % 0.68 0.70-2.8 % COP 3.28 3.21 +2.1 % 4.78 4.71 +1.4 % Evaporating temperature / C 7.9 8.2-0.3 C 5.5 5.9-0.4 C Condensing temperature / C 46.1 47.9-1.8 C 30.4 29.9 +0.5 C Note: the reheating coil wasn t switched on in cooling test. 14
System performance analysis Winter: while the tube wall temperature of EA could stay over frost point, the new DOAS could achieve frost-free operation in warm condition 10 8 Exhaust air temperature tube wall temperature of EA coil Evaporating temperature temperature ( C) 6 4 2 0-2 -8-6 -4-2 0 2 4 6 8 Outdoor dry-bulb temperature ( C) 15
System performance analysis Winter: low frost operation at extra-low ambient temperatures The evaporating temperature of the exhaust air coil is controlled over frost point by the pressure regulation valve 2 Tube wall temperature ( C) -2-6 -10-14 tube wall temperature of EA coil tube wall temperature of outdoor coil -18-22 -20-18 -16-14 -12-10 -8 Outdoor dry-bulb temperature ( C) 16
System performance analysis Owing to efficient heat recovery the heating COP of new DOAS reaches 2.7, when outdoor temperature drops to -20 C Note: the ASHP takes the same outdoor coil and fans as the new DOAS. When the ambient temperature is lower than -15 C, the ASHP couldn t achieve supply air temperature 28 C. Heating COP 5.5 4.5 3.5 2.5 heating COP of the new DOAS heating COP of ASHP Compressor speed of the new DOAS Compressor speed of ASHP 1.5-20 -15-10 -5 0 5 Outdoor dry-bulb temperature ( C) 120 100 80 60 40 20 Compresoor Speed (rps) 0 17
System performance analysis Summer: the new DOAS achieving higher cooling COP than ASHP the exhaust air is used for decreasing the condensing temperature 4.4 60 The new DOAS The new DOAS 4 ASHP 55 ASHP Cooling COP 3.6 3.2 2.8 2.4 Condensing temperature/ C 50 45 40 35 2 28 30 32 34 36 38 OA dry-bulb temperature/ C 30 28 30 32 34 36 38 OA dry-bulb temperature/ C Note: all simulation results are under OA relative humidity 60% the ASHP takes the same outdoor coil and fans as the new DOAS 18
Conclusions A new dedicated outdoor air system with exhaust air heat recovery module and pressure regulation valve was proposed in this study. The new DOAS can maintain the desired supply temperature, while the pressure regulation valve keep both the outdoor evaporator and exhaust air coil frost free in heating mode (ambient temperature -20 C to 10 C) The heat recovery module could improve heating and cooling COP of DOAS and the prototype achieved 4.71 and 3.21 at design conditions, which 26.9% and 10.5% higher than the ASHP. u Acknowledgement This work is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51676140) 19
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The limited heating recovery capacity Back up Because of frost preventing control, the heat recovery capacity of exhaust air is limited. In general, its capacity is effected by the state of return air and the ratio of air flow rate between EA and SA. 50 V EA /V SA = 0.8 V EA /V SA = 1 55 SA Teperature C 40 30 20 10 RA 24 C/60% RA 20 C/60% RA 20 C/40% -7-5 -3-1 1 3 5 7 OA Temperature C SA Teperature C 45 35 25 15 RA 24 C/60% RA 20 C/60% RA 20 C/40% -7-5 -3-1 1 3 5 7 OA Temperature C 21