Subway hybrid-energy multifunctional-end-integrated heat pump system and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11898779-B2
Application number	US-202017274998-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 3, 2020
Priority date	Jul 31, 2019
Publication date	Feb 13, 2024
Grant date	Feb 13, 2024

Abstract

A subway hybrid-energy multifunctional-end-integrated heat pump system includes energy and user ends and hot water tank. A first energy end includes a capillary-tube front-end heat exchanger and a subway capillary heat pump unit. A second energy end includes a solar panel. A third energy end includes an air-cooled heat pump unit. The user end includes air conditioner, hot water supply, underfloor heating, and radiator heating ends. The first, second and third energy ends connect to the hot water tank. A water outlet is connected to the air conditioner, hot water supply, underfloor heating, and radiator heating ends. Water outlets of the air conditioner, underfloor heating, and radiator heating ends are respectively connected to the first, second and third energy end through a return pipe.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A subway hybrid-energy multifunctional-end-integrated heat pump system adopting a capillary-tube heat exchanger, the system comprising: an energy end, a user end, a hot water storage and a control system,
wherein the energy end comprises a first energy end, a second energy end and a third energy end, the first energy end comprises a capillary-tube front-end heat exchanger laid in surrounding rocks of a tunnel and a subway capillary-tube heat pump unit, the second energy end comprises a solar panel, the third energy end comprises an air-cooled heat pump unit, the user end comprises an air conditioner end, a hot water supply end, an underfloor heating end, and a radiator heating end, the first energy end, the second energy end, and the third energy end are connected to a water inlet of the hot water storage tank, a water outlet of the hot water storage tank is connected to the air conditioner end, the hot water supply end, the underfloor heating end, and the radiator heating end, water outlets of the air conditioner end, the underfloor heating end, and the radiator heating end are connected to the hot water storage tank through a first return pipe, the water outlet of the air conditioner end is connected to the third energy end through a second return pipe, and the third energy end is connected to the air conditioner end through a cooling pipe; and
wherein the control system comprising a temperature monitor, a water level monitor, a valve controller, a unit controller, a water pump controller, and a central processing device, wherein the temperature monitor is provided at an outlet of the solar panel and an outlet of the hot water storage tank, the water level monitor is provided in the hot water storage tank, the valve controller is provided at a first valve to a sixteenth valve, the unit controller is provided at the air-cooled heat pump unit, the water pump controller is provided at a first circulating water pump to an eleventh circulating water pump, and the temperature monitor, the water level monitor, the valve controller, the unit controller, and the water pump controller are connected to the central processing device.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the first energy end further comprises a first circulating water pump, a second circulating water pump, a first valve, and a second valve, an outlet of the capillary-tube front-end heat exchanger is connected to the subway capillary-tube heat pump unit through the first circulating water pump and the first valve, and the hot water storage tank is connected to the subway capillary-tube heat pump unit through the second circulating water pump and the second valve.

3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the second energy end further comprises a third circulating water pump, a third valve, and a fourth valve, and the solar panel is connected to the hot water storage tank through the third valve, the fourth valve, and the third circulating water pump.

4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the third energy end further comprises a fourth circulating water pump, a fifth circulating water pump, a fifth valve, a sixth valve, a seventh valve, an eighth valve, a ninth valve, and a tenth valve, the air-cooled heat pump unit is connected to the hot water storage tank through the fifth valve, the sixth valve, and the fourth circulating water pump, and to the air conditioner end through the seventh valve, the eighth valve, the ninth valve, and the fifth circulating water pump, and the air conditioner end is connected to the hot water storage tank through the tenth valve.

5. The heat pump system according to claim 4 , wherein the hot water storage tank is connected to the air conditioner end through a sixth circulating water pump and an eleventh valve, to the hot water supply end through a seventh circulating water pump and a twelfth valve, to the underfloor heating end through an eighth circulating water pump and a thirteenth valve, and to the radiator heating end through a ninth circulating water pump and a fourteenth valve.

6. The system according to claim 5 , wherein make-up water is connected to the first energy end, the second energy end, and the third energy end through a tenth circulating water pump and a fifteenth valve.

7. The system according to claim 1 , wherein capillary tubes of the capillary-tube front-end heat exchanger are spaced from each other by a distance of 10 mm, the capillary tubes are laid between a first lining and a second lining of the surrounding rocks of the subway tunnel, a waterproof board is laid between the capillary tubes and the second lining, and each of the capillary tubes has a flow rate of 0.05-0.2 m/s.

8. A method for supplying energy from the subway hybrid-energy multifunctional-end-integrated heat pump system according to claim 1 , the method comprising turning on the first valve to allow the subway capillary tube heat pump unit to absorb waste heat from the subway tunnel to heat hot water to generate the hot water, turning on the second valve to allow the hot water to enter the hot water storage tank, and turning on the twelfth valve and the seventh circulating water pump; in summer, controlling, by the central processing device, corresponding controllers to turn on the seventh valve, the eighth valve, the ninth valve, and the fifth circulating water pump to allow the air-cooled heat pump unit to supply cold energy to the air conditioner end; controlling, by the central processing device, corresponding controllers to turn on the third circulating water pump, the third valve, and the fourth valve to allow circulating water in the hot water storage tank to flow back to the solar panel and the subway capillary-tube heat pump unit to absorb solar energy and the subway waste heat, when a water temperature at an outlet of the solar panel is greater than or equal to 60° C.; controlling, by the central processing device, the corresponding controllers to turn off the third valve, the fourth valve, and the third circulating water pump to allow the circulating water in the hot water storage tank to flow back to the subway capillary-tube heat pump unit to be heated by the subway waste heat to supply hot water to the hot water supply end, if the water temperature at the outlet of the solar panel is less than 60° C.; in winter, turning on the thirteenth valve, the fourteenth valve, the eighth circulating water pump, and the ninth circulating water pump, and controlling, by the central processing device, the corresponding controllers to turn off the seventh valve, the eighth valve, the ninth valve, and the fifth circulating water pump; controlling, by the central processing device, the corresponding controllers to turn on the third valve, the fourth valve, and the third circulating water pump to allow the circulating water in the hot water storage tank to flow back to the solar panel and the subway capillary-tube heat pump unit to absorb the solar energy and the subway waste heat, when a water temperature at the outlet of the hot water storage tank is less than 60° C. and if the water temperature at the outlet of the solar panel is greater than or equal to 60° C. as monitored by a temperature monitor at the outlet of the hot water storage tank; controlling, by the central processing device, corresponding controllers to turn on the fifth valve, the sixth valve, and the fourth circulating water pump to allow the circulating water in the hot water storage tank to flow back to the air-cooled heat pump unit, the solar panel, and the subway capillary-tube heat pump unit such that the first energy end, the second energy end, and the third energy end jointly supply heat to the air conditioner end, the hot water supply end, the underfloor heating end, and the radiator heating end, if

Assignees

• Univ Qingdao Technology

Inventors

• Hu Songtao
• Liu Guodan
• Ji Yongming
• Wang Haiying
• Tong Li
• Tong Zhen

Classifications

• F25B27/02 Primary

  using waste heat, e.g. from internal-combustion engines · CPC title

• B61K13/00

  Other auxiliaries or accessories for railways · CPC title

• F24D3/14

  incorporated in a ceiling, wall or floor · CPC title

• F24D19/1072

  the system uses a heat pump · CPC title

• F25B27/002

  using solar energy · CPC title