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DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW TYPE OF HEAT TRANSFORMER AND INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFORMER-ABSORPTION HEAT PUMP COMBINED UNIT.

Objectif

AIM:

THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW TYPE OF HEAT TRANSFORMER OPERATING WITH NEW AGENTS AND ATTAINING CONSIDERABLY HIGHER USEFUL TEMPERATURES THAN THE WATER-LIBR-HEAT TRANSFORMER USED AT PRESENT (C. 150 C). IT SHOULD ALSO MAKE POSSIBLE A LARGER DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WASTE HEAT AND USEFUL HEAT (UP TO NOW 40 TO 50 K). THE PERFORMANCE OF THIS HEAT TRANSFORMER WILL BE MONITORED OVER A 9-MONTH TEST PERIOD. AT THE SAME TIME A HIGH-TEMPERATURE ABSORPTION HEAT PUMP WILL BE DEVELOPED AND TESTED. THEN THE TWO APPARATUSES WILL BE COMBINED TO FORM A SINGLE UNIT, WHOSE PERFOMANCE WILL BE INVESTIGATED EXTENSIVELY, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON ITS CONTROL ACTION.

DESCRIPTION:

USING THE EXPERIENCE GAINED WITH THE WATER-LIBR-HEAT TRANSFORMER, A NEW TYPE OF HEAT TRANSFORMER IS TO BE DEVELOPED BASED ON MORE SUITABLE AGENT SYSTEMS. ROUGH CALCULATIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN CARRIED OUT SUGGESTING THE FOLLOWING DATA FOR THE HEAT TRANSFORMER:

EVAPORATOR TEMPERATURE: 100 C
EXPELLER FINAL TEMPERATURE: 100 C
CONDENSATION TEMPERATURE: 38 C
ABSORPTION FINAL TEMPERATURE: 172 C
USEFUL OUTPUT: 20KW
INPUT: 50KW

THESE CALCULATIONS WERE BASED ON USE OF THE AGENTS TRIFLUOROETHANOL (TFE) AND TETRAETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMETHYL ETHER; EXPERIENCE HAVING BEEN GAINED WITH THESE ON A SMALL EXPERIMENTAL UNIT, THEY WERE CHOSEN FOR BOTH THE ABOVE CALCULATIONS AND FOR LATER OPERATION OF THE SYSTEM. IT IS PLANNED AT A LATER STAGE TO SWITCH TO OTHER AGENTS PERIMITTING ABSORPTION FINAL TEMPERATURES OF NEARLY 200 C TO BE ATTAINED. LIKELY CANDIDATES ARE

TFE - N-METHYL PYRROLIDONE
TFE - PYRROLIDONE
TFE - ISOQUINOLINE

AND PERHAPS ALSO
PERFLUOROPROPIONIC ACID (PFPA)-DTG.

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Régime de financement

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinateur

GEA Luftkühlergesellschaft Happel GmbH & Co
Contribution de l’UE
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Adresse

4690 Herne
Allemagne

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