Kajian Eksperimen Heat Exchahger Pada Heat Pump Menggunakan Refrijeran Hidrokarbon

Abstract

Heat pump or usually known as pump energy is a device that can cooling and heating to be used, which functions as a cooling evaporator can be direct replace to heating as a function of the condenser using a reversing valve.. Using heat exchangers in the heat pump system is installed on the suction line and discharge line, so it will give the suction line temperature changes will be higher and discharge line temperatures will be lower, resulting in a greater cooling effect and lighter work of compression. The heat pump uses refrigerant type of hydrocarbon that is friendly to the environment, such as refrigerant R-290. From the results obtained research that the highest of Coefficient of Performance (COP) in the heat pump using heat exchangers is 4.8 and without using heat exchanger is 4.1. So value of COP of haet pump between using heat exchanger and withaout heat exchanger is 0.7. The highest efficiency obtained on the heat pump using heat exchangers is 90.3%, and efficiency of heat pump without using heat exchanger is 78.95%.