Rotary Vapor Compression Cycle Final Report.

Technical Report · Thu Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1426402· OSTI ID:1426402

Kariya, Arthur ^[1]; Staats, Wayne ^[1]; Koplow, Jeffrey P. ^[1]; Wujek, Scott ^[2]; Elbel, Stefan ^[2]; Hrnjak, Pega ^[2]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Creative Thermal Solutions, Urbana, IL (United States)

While there are several heat pump technologies such thermoelectric, adsorption and magnetocaloric cycles, the oldest and most widely used is the vapor compression cycle (VCC). Currently, thermoelectric cycles have not yet achieved efficiencies nor cooling capacities comparable to VCCs. Adsorption cycles offer the benefit of using low-quality heat as the energy input, but are significantly more complex and expensive and are therefore limited to certain niche applications. Magnetocaloric cycles are still in the research phase. Consequently, improvements made for VCCs will likely have the most immediate and encompassing impact. The objective of this work is to develop an alternative VCC topology to reduce the above inefficiencies.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Building Technologies Program (EE-2J)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1426402
• Report Number(s): SAND--2018-2330R; 661136
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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