Refrigeration and heat pumping

Refrigeration and heat pumping systems

State of the art

  • heat transfer from low temperature to high temperature providing work,
  • used in household appliances, automotive industry, aircraft industry, process, chemical and pharmaceutical industry, building system installation.

What do we do?

  • simulations,
  • field test,
  • experimental evaluation and optimization of systems.

Modification of existing devices/elements, Predicitive control of devices/elements

Within this domain we are intensively working on improving the energy efficiency of systems and devices that are based on vapor-compression cycles as well as Peltier effect. Our work is based on numerical as well as experimental research studies in a laboratory and real environments. Based on numerical simulations several components of a system/device are optimized which impacts the performance of a system/device. Evaluation of energy efficiency of a device or a system can be used to evaluate new solutions on existing devices/systems. To achieve those results the following measures are used:

  • Integration of new elements inside the system/device (heat exchangers, heat or sound insulation, regulation valves, …),
  • Modification of existing elements (geometry of a heat exchanger, mass charge of a refrigerant, boundary conditions of a device/system performance…) and
  • Predictive control of a device/system by considering the optimization criteria of system performance. Those criteria can be: energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness, comfort, etc.

Experts in the field

prof. dr. Andrej Kitanovski
prof. dr. Andrej Kitanovski
Nada Petelin
Nada Petelin
dr. Urban Tomc
dr. Urban Tomc

Recent publications

Recent news

Questions?

Do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail or by telephone. You can also visit us at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Ljubljana

003861-4771-513
lahde@fs.uni-lj.si

Aškerceva ul. 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

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