
Frosting for Air Source Heat Pumps
Research, Case Studies, and Methods
- 1st Edition - October 24, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Mengjie Song, Long Zhang
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 4 5 7 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 4 5 8 - 7
Frosting for Air Source Heat Pumps: Research, Case Studies, and Methods provides a comprehensive accounting of the latest research, analysis, and modeling methods for limiti… Read more
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Building on the theory and studies contained in the author’s previous work Defrosting for Air Source Heat Pumps, this book provides essential and advanced information for understanding and controlling frosting for these sustainable energy sources.
- Outlines the fundamentals of frosting mechanisms in different circumstances and on a variety of surfaces
- Provides a wide range of real-world case studies, including demonstrations of analysis and modeling in finned tube heat exchangers and ASHPs
- Details a huge collection of experimental and numerical data on reverse cycle defrosting, the most common defrosting methods for ASHPs
2. Freezing of sessile non-deformed water droplet under natural convection at early frosting stage in an ASHP unit
3. Freezing of sessile deformed water droplet under natural convection at early frosting stage in an ASHP unit
4. Frosting on surface of horizontal cold plate under natural convection in an ASHP unit
5. Frosting on surface of non-horizontal cold plate under natural convection in an ASHP unit
6. Frosting on surface of horizontal cold flat plate under forced convection in an ASHP unit
7. Measurement and calculation of frost characteristics on cold surfaces
8. Experimental study of frosting on surface of finned tube heat exchangers in an ASHP unit
9. Numerical study of frosting on surface of finned tube heat exchanger in an ASHP unit
10. Frosting on surface of micro-channel heat exchanger in an ASHP unit
11. Reverse cycle defrosting for multi-circuit outdoor coil in an ASHP unit
12. Conclusions and future work
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 24, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Mengjie Song
LZ
Long Zhang
Doctor Long ZHANG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. degrees from both The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His research interests are the coupling mechanism and application research of heat and mass transfer and flow, especially the phase change problems such as frosting, icing, and the key technology research of heat pumps. He has published more than 50 SCI journal articles, including 32 ones as lead/corresponding author and 2 ESI ones. He also published 2 books and 2 chapters for Elsevier, applied for 8 Chinese patents, and made 6 invited presentations at international and Chinese conferences around frosting and icing topics. Additionally, he holds more than 10 projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China.