Heat pump system and start up control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11137170-B2
Application number	US-201716349001-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2017
Priority date	Nov 11, 2016
Publication date	Oct 5, 2021
Grant date	Oct 5, 2021

Abstract

A heat pump system comprises: a main heat exchange circuit, comprising a two-stage compressor (100a,100b), a condenser (200), a throttle element (300a,300b) and an evaporator (400), which are connected in sequence to form a circuit; an economizer, disposed between the condenser and the evaporator; a gas supplement branch, connecting a gas outlet of the economizer to a gas supplement port of the compressor, with an economizer regulating valve (600) for controlling the opening and closing of a flow path being arranged on the gas supplement branch; and a control device, wherein the control device controls the opening and closing of the economizer regulating valve based on a refrigerant state feature in the evaporator during a start-up stage of the heat pump system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A heat pump system, characterized by comprising:
a main heat exchange circuit, comprising a two-stage compressor, a condenser, a throttle element and an evaporator, which are connected in sequence to form a circuit;
an economizer, disposed between the condenser and the evaporator;
a gas supplement branch, connecting a gas outlet of the economizer to a gas supplement port of the compressor, with an economizer regulating valve for controlling the opening and closing of a flow path being arranged on the gas supplement branch; and
a control device,
wherein the control device controls the opening and closing of the economizer regulating valve based on a refrigerant state feature in the evaporator during a start-up stage of the heat pump system;
the refrigerant state feature comprises the saturated evaporation pressure of the refrigerant in the evaporator; the heat pump system further comprises a refrigerant state feature sensor for measuring a parameter in the evaporator capable of reflecting the saturated evaporation pressure of the refrigerant.

2. The heat pump system according to claim 1 , wherein the throttle element comprises a high pressure side float valve disposed between the condenser and the economizer and/or a low pressure side float valve disposed between the evaporator and the economizer.

3. The heat pump system according to claim 1 , wherein the heat pump system further comprises a temperature sensor for measuring the evaporation temperature of the refrigerant in the evaporator.

4. The heat pump system according to claim 1 , wherein the heat pump system further comprises a pressure sensor for measuring the evaporation pressure of the refrigerant in the evaporator.

5. A heat pump system comprising:
a main heat exchange circuit, comprising a two-stage compressor, a condenser, a throttle element and an evaporator, which are connected in sequence to form a circuit;
an economizer, disposed between the condenser and the evaporator;
a gas supplement branch, connecting a gas outlet of the economizer to a gas supplement port of the compressor, with an economizer regulating valve for controlling the opening and closing of a flow path being arranged on the gas supplement branch; and
a control device,
wherein the control device controls the opening and closing of the economizer regulating valve based on a refrigerant state feature in the evaporator during a start-up stage of the heat pump system;
wherein the control device is configured to perform operations comprising:
S- 100 , during a first preset period after the compressor is started, if the refrigerant state feature in the evaporator is lower than a set threshold, the economizer regulating valve is opened and then the refrigerant accumulated in the economizer is pumped into the compressor; and/or
S 200 , during the first preset period after the compressor is started, if the refrigerant state feature in the evaporator is higher than the set threshold, the economizer regulating valve is opened after the first preset period and then the refrigerant accumulated in the economizer is pumped into the compressor.

6. The heat pump system according to claim 5 , wherein the refrigerant state feature comprises the saturated evaporation pressure of the refrigerant in the evaporator, wherein the control device is configured to perform operations comprising:
S 100 , during the first preset period after the compressor is started, if the saturated evaporation pressure of the refrigerant in the evaporator is lower than a pressure threshold, the economizer regulating valve is opened and then the refrigerant accumulated in the economizer is pumped into the compressor; and/or
S 200 , during the first preset period after the compressor is started, if the saturated evaporation pressure of the refrigerant in the evaporator is higher than the pressure threshold, the economizer regulating valve is opened after the first preset period and then the refrigerant accumulated in the economizer is pumped into the compressor.

7. The heat pump system according to claim 6 , wherein the saturated evaporation pressure in the evaporator is obtained based on the parameter in the evaporator capable of reflecting the saturated evaporation pressure.

8. The heat pump system according to claim 7 , wherein the parameter in the evaporator capable of reflecting the saturated evaporation pressure comprises the refrigerant evaporation pressure and/or the refrigerant evaporation temperature.

9. The heat pump system according to claim 8 , wherein when the parameter in the evaporator capable of reflecting the saturation evaporation pressure comprises the refrigerant evaporation temperature, the saturated evaporation temperature is obtained based on the refrigerant evaporation temperature, and the saturated evaporation pressure is obtained based on the characteristic relation between the saturated evaporation temperature and the saturated evaporation pressure.

10. The heat pump system according to claim 5 , wherein the first preset period is 1-5 minutes.

11. The heat pump system according to claim 5 , wherein the temperature threshold corresponding to the pressure threshold is below 40° F.

12. The heat pump system according to claim 5 , wherein S- 100 further comprises:
during the first preset period after the compressor is started, if the refrigerant state feature in the evaporator is lower than the set threshold and this situation continues for a second preset period, the economizer regulating valve is opened and then the refrigerant accumulated in the economizer is pumped into the compressor.

Assignees

• Carrier Corp

Inventors

• Shi Runfu

Classifications

• F25B1/10 Primary

  with multi-stage compression (with cascade operation F25B7/00) · CPC title

• F25B2600/2509

  Economiser valves · CPC title

• F25B41/39

  Dispositions with two or more expansion means arranged in series, i.e. multi-stage expansion, on a refrigerant line leading to the same evaporator · CPC title

• F25B2500/26

  characterised by the startup of the refrigeration cycle · CPC title

• F25B2500/15

  Hunting, i.e. oscillation of controlled refrigeration variables reaching undesirable values · CPC title