Surge heat pump system
A heat pump system and surge technology, applied in the field of surge heat pump systems, can solve problems such as loss of theoretical energy efficiency gain
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[0047] A surge vapor compression heat pump system includes a refrigerant phase separator for generating at least one surge of gas phase refrigerant into an inlet of an evaporator. The evaporator can be located inside the conditioned space or outside. The surge is generated by operating the phase separator at a refrigerant mass flow rate, which may depend on the design and size of the phase separator and the heat transfer capacity of the refrigerant. The one or more surges may be generated during an on-cycle of the compressor.
[0048] The surge of gas phase refrigerant may have a higher temperature than liquid phase refrigerant. Relative to the initial temperature of the expanded refrigerant supplied to the phase separator, the liquid resulting from the phase separator will be cooler and the vapor resulting from the phase separator will be warmer than the initial temperature of the expanded refrigerant. Thus, the temperature of the vapor is raised by heat derived from the li...
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