The Means to Improve Water Treatment and to Enhance Power Engineering Performance of the Water Source Heat Pump

The subject matter of the paper is related to scientific-and-theoretical basis of power engineering characteristics of heat pump directly depending on the quality of treated water for reliable and uninterrupted operation of heat pump evaporator and compressor. On the basis of experimental data, energy parameters of the heat pump are calculated. The method of the combined technology of the heat pump “water – air” operation is considеred, the efficiency of which is based on the preliminary improvement of the quality of water softened with the use of a membrane ultrafiltration unit. This solution made it possible to reduce the load on the filters and to exclude the use of chemical reagents used in the classical schemes of water heating facilities. In order to improve the operation of the heat pump compressor, a method based on altering the speed of rotation of the shaft by means of electronic microprocessor devices has been proposed. To regulate the compressor performance, a frequency converter with a wide range of alternating current frequency is used. The intervals of alteration of frequency of the alternating current corresponding to energy-efficient values of coefficient of transformation of energy of the heat pump are investigated. The values of the energy conversion coefficient of the heat pump obtained in the course of experiments and determined by calculation are consistent within the experimental errors with the regulation of the compressor performance. The suggested experimental device made it possible to determine the dependence of the main characteristics of the unit of the heat pump unit on the number of revolutions of the compressor and to find out an effective range of its control (50–180 %). The development of advanced technologies for natural water treatment under conditions of increased anthropogenic loads on natural water sources is a priority one among the fundamental and applied research in the field of water treatment.

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