Research & Analysis
Jiang Xin, Lu Qiliang, Li Zheng, Chen Pei, Lu Wanglin, Wu Guanghua, Qi Wen, Jiang Xi
Taking a high temperature steam heat pump system with waste heat recovery as the research object, the thermal calculation and the comparison of the coefficient of performance (COP) were carried out under different steam production flow rates and different temperatures of low temperature heat source, while an analysis was conducted on the economy of the system. Calculation results show that, the system can be optimized with a higher COP by adding the regenerator and changing the interstage temperature. With the application of the regenerator, when the steam production flow rates are 1 t/h and 5 t/h, the coefficients of performance can be improved by 2.0% and 1.8%, respectively. The COP of the high temperature steam heat pump system with two-stage cascaded design changes with the change of the interstage temperature, and the COP of the system reaches the maximum value when the interstage temperature is 64 ℃. Compared with other types of steam generators, the high temperature steam heat pump system has a lower energy cost, but the initial investment is still high at present. With the reduction of the initial investment, the high temperature steam heat pump system will have a broad application prospect.