Absorption Heating Technologies: Efficient Heating, Heat Recovery and Renewable Energy

✍ Scribed by Wei Wu, Xianting Li, Tian You

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 270
• Edition: 1st ed. 2020
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to novel absorption heating technologies for improving the energy efficiency of heating systems. The proposed low-temperature heating systems, based on an air source absorption heat pump (ASAHP), significantly increase heating efficiency and reduce pollution emissions. As the performance of ASAHPs deteriorates at lower ambient/driving temperatures, a series of advanced cycles is used to extend their applicability, with the compression-assisted ASAHP being the most outstanding example. The book discusses the generator-absorber-heat-exchange ASAHP as a promising solution to make the best of high driving temperatures, an aspect that can be improved further via compression. Further, it addresses the ground source absorption heat pump (GSAHP), which eliminates the soil thermal imbalance of the conventional ground source electrical heat pump (GSEHP), and also reduces the number of boreholes . Various hybrid GSAHP systems are proposed to further enhance applicability, efficiency, and economy: these include a combined GSAHP and GSEHP system, as well as ASAHP and GSAHP systems that incorporate design optimizations. In closing, the book explores the merits of novel working fluids and highlights recent advances concerning waste heat and renewable energy utilization.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
Characteristics of Conventional Heating Technologies (Wei Wu, Xianting Li, Tian You)....Pages 1-19
Fundamentals of Absorption Heating Technologies (Wei Wu, Xianting Li, Tian You)....Pages 21-74
Low Evaporation Temperature Absorption Heat Pump (Wei Wu, Xianting Li, Tian You)....Pages 75-108
Performance Improvement of Absorption Heat Pump (Wei Wu, Xianting Li, Tian You)....Pages 109-145
Performance of Ground Source Absorption Heat Pump (Wei Wu, Xianting Li, Tian You)....Pages 147-165
Hybrid Ground Source Absorption Heat Pump System (Wei Wu, Xianting Li, Tian You)....Pages 167-210
Advances in Novel Working Fluids for Absorption Heat Pump (Wei Wu, Xianting Li, Tian You)....Pages 211-236
Advances in Waste Heat and Renewable Energy Utilization (Wei Wu, Xianting Li, Tian You)....Pages 237-259
Absorption Heating Technologies: Summaries and Perspectives (Wei Wu, Xianting Li, Tian You)....Pages 261-266

✦ Subjects

Energy; Energy Efficiency; Building Physics, HVAC; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer