Week 5
Implementation of Heat pump and radiator system
According to previous correlating papers, some notes on terminology has been found.
The COP is a significant value that indicates the quality of whole system, which is calculated by "dividing total heat delivered to the building by the electricity used by the ASHP unit". For my project, the accepted value of COP is within the range form 3 to 5.5. The other two equation will be used as a reference to judge the characteristic and performance of the whole heating system.
So the actual COP would varies with the source temperature and this could be explained via a deeper understanding of the ideally heat pump cycle:
At the same time, the rate of heat output of radiator system is another important parameter of the system, it is tightly connect with the heat pump output. In order to achieve a better performance, the chosen of parameter's value is important and will be referred some manufacture data base, especially the heat transfer coefficients and radiator area, capacity.
