The refrigerant circuit arrangement of an outdoor heat exchanger was optimized for a heat pump air conditioner when the compressor
capillary tube
indoor heat exchanger
and the geometric parameters of the outdoor heat exchanger were unchanged. The experimental results of the air conditioner with the outdoor heat exchanger optimized were compared with those of the primary heat pump air conditioner. The results show that the performances of both the outdoor heat exchanger and the heat pump increased when the outdoor heat exchanger had the counter cross-flow arrangement serving as a condenser and the parallel cross-flow serving as an evaporator. The compressor power input with the optimized outdoor circuit arrangement in the cooling and heating cycles decreased by 3.81% and 5.46%
respectively. Moreover
the cooling and heating capacities increased by 2.73% and 2.78%
respectively. Hence
the EER in the cooling cycle and the COP in the heating cycle increased by 6.82% and 8.73%
respectively. The numerical simulation results indicate that the capacity improvement of the optimized outdoor heat exchanger is attributed to the increase of both the heat transfer coefficient and the air-and-refrigerant temperature difference at the second half of each circuit.
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