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Thermodynamic Design and Optimization of a 20 kW Vuilleumier Heat Pump
Technical Paper
1999-01-2558
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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A new strategy for the design and optimization of regenerative cycles (e.g. Stirling or Vuilleumier cycles) is presented. It is based on a simplex algorithm and is organized in a hierarchical structure, sorting the independent parameters in order of decreasing influence on the global design and defining them in a way which minimizes their mutual interaction. It was successfully applied to the design of a 20 kW Vuilleumier heat pump for residential heating applications within in joint German government-funded R&D-project. The experimental results are well reproduced by the simulation code if a few resonable assumptions for hardly predictable parameters are made.
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Kuehl, H., Schulz, S., and Walther, C., "Thermodynamic Design and Optimization of a 20 kW Vuilleumier Heat Pump," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-2558, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-2558.Also In
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