Type: Semester/Master project (10/30 credits)
Period: 2016 Autumn (September-December)
Assistants: Anna Sophia Wallerand
Student:
Context & Goal
Thermally and power driven heat pumps are important technologies for modern advanced energy systems. Employment of heat pumps varies from domestic to industrial heating and cooling applications. Efficient modeling of the thermodynamic behavior is crucial for quantitative analysis of such integrated systems.
Based on a previous project in which a superstructure MILP model of an compression (power driven) heat pump was derived. The student will work on expanding the compression heat pump model to develop a model for thermally driven heat pumps based on the equations that were previously derived. Further new heat pumping concepts, such as chemical steam reforming and recombustion will be evaluated.
For both topics a strong background in material sciences and thermodynamics is required in order to convert the thermo-chemical effects of sorption/desorption/mixing into a generic thermodynamic notation. The thermodynamic/thermochemical properties are estimated based on Coolprop, an equations based thermodynamic property database.
Requirements
- Strong background in material sciences and thermodynamic
- Energy conversion systems knowledge (EPFL courses: Thermo I/II, Energy conversion, Advanced Energetics, or equivalent)
- Programming skills: Lua, optimization (Modeling and Optimisation of Energy Systems EPFL course or equivalent)
Tasks
- Familiarization with the OSMOSE environment and the Lua programming language
- Development of thermodynamic syntax for absorption chiller /and chemical heat pump model
- Implementation of model
- Testing and validation
- Report & Presentation
References
[1] Shelton, Mark R., and Ignacio E. Grossmann. “Optimal synthesis of integrated refrigeration systems—I: Mixed-integer programming model.” Computers & chemical engineering 10.5 (1986): 445-459.
[2] Shelton, M. R., and I. E. Grossmann. “Optimal synthesis of integrated refrigeration systems—II: Implicit enumeration scheme.” Computers & chemical engineering 10.5 (1986): 461-477.
[3] Engler, M., G. Grossman, and H-M. Hellmann. “Comparative simulation and investigation of ammonia-water: absorption cycles for heat pump applications.” International Journal of Refrigeration 20.7 (1997): 504-516.
[4] Sun, Da-Wen. “Thermodynamic design data and optimum design maps for absorption refrigeration systems.” Applied thermal engineering 17.3 (1997): 211-221.