Cold climate air source heat pumps: Industry progress and thermodynamic analysis of market-available residential units

ME Konrad, BD MacDonald - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Air source heat pumps are an excellent electric alternative to fossil fuel based heating
systems for reducing residential greenhouse gas emissions, but common mild climate …

Energy, exergy, economic and environmental analyses and optimization of a novel vapor injection autocascade heat pump for high-temperature water heating

J Chen, Q Chen, X Qin, D Wang - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Aiming to develop a high-efficiency and low-cost high-temperature heat pump with large
temperature lift ability, a novel vapor injection autocascade heat pump for high-temperature …

Auto-cascade refrigeration systems: A key review with energetic and exergetic perspectives

I Karacayli, L Altay, A Hepbasli - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Auto-cascade refrigeration (ACR) systems are known for their innovative solutions,
especially suitable for low and ultra-low-temperature applications. However, ACR cycles are …

Numerical investigation on the heating performance of a transcritical CO2 vapor-injection heat pump system

X Peng, D Wang, G Wang, Y Yang, S Xiang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
CO 2 is a new type of friendly refrigerant. In order to investigate the effect of the operating
parameters of the transcritical CO 2 heat pump system on heating performance, the …

Investigation on the heating performance of the heat pump with waste heat recovery for the electric bus

X Han, H Zou, J Wu, C Tian, M Tang, G Huang - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Efficient heating system is critical for electric vehicles to extend the driving range. In this
paper, an air source heat pump system with waste heat recovery (WHR) for the electric bus …

Experimental study on optimal heating cycle characteristics of CO2 secondary throttling heat pump system for electric vehicles

F Wang, W Wu, Y Huang, H Zhang, Q Yu - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
As HFC refrigerants widely employed in electric vehicle heat pump systems face stringent
restrictions due to environmental concerns, CO 2 has attracted significant attention as a …

Performance evaluation of an electric vehicle thermal management system with waste heat recovery

Z Tian, B Gu, W Gao, Y Zhang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Widespread adoption of electric vehicles is limited by their mileage, which is severely
shortened by the positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater in cold weather. To alleviate …

Energy consumption and increased EV range evaluation through heat pump scenarios and low GWP refrigerants in the new test procedure WLTP

B Yu, J Yang, D Wang, J Shi, J Chen - International Journal of Refrigeration, 2019 - Elsevier
The aim of this work is to evaluate the cabin heating energy consumption and driving range
for a battery electric vehicle. The vehicle was tested in climatic wind tunnel laboratory under …

Molecular dynamics simulation of interfacial heat transfer characteristics of CO2, R32 and CO2/R32 binary zeotropic mixture on a smooth substrate

C Qian, B Yu, Z Ye, J Shi, J Chen - International Journal of Refrigeration, 2024 - Elsevier
Mixture fluids have the advantage of a flexible adjustment of the physicochemical properties
by actively tuning the composition and concentrations, showing promising potential in …

Experimental investigation and comparison on heating performance characteristics of two transcritical CO2 heat pump systems

X Peng, J Xie, X Liu, G Wang, D Wang, Y Yang - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
An experimental investigation and comparison of the heating performance of the transcritical
CO 2 single-stage and vapor injection cycles were conducted. The effects of operating …