An experimental study on time-based start defrosting control strategy optimization for an air source heat pump unit with frost evenly distributed and melted frost locally drained
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The most commonly used defrosting initiation control strategies are time control and time-temperature control.
“The most commonly used control strategies are time control and time-temperature control [62,63].”
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- Authors
- Song, M., Fan, C., Mao, N., & Xu, Y.
- Affiliations
- Tianjin University (CN)
- Shenzhen University (CN)
- China University of Petroleum, East China (CN)
- Zhejiang University of Technology (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Mao, Ning
- Venue
- Energy and Buildings
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-11
- Volume
- 178
- Pages
- 26-37
- ISSN
- 0378-7788 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2889011914
- Semantic Scholar
- 4640725906201a65992f9cd74eebdaa997428ed4
- Cited by
- 51
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 3.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Energy and Buildings (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (201806-401)
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2017A030313300)
- Tianjin University
- University of Tokyo
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2016EEQ29)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51606044)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Adsorption and Cooling Systems
- Keywords
- air-source heat pump, frost accumulation, energy conservation
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