The environmental impact of a caloric heat pump working with solid-state materials based on TEWI analysis

In this paper the environmental impact of a solid-state caloric heat pump was evaluated. The system employs solid-state materials as refrigerants, exhibiting caloric effects based on external fields of different natures (magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, mechanocaloric). Such technology is accounted a...

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Main Authors: Greco, Adriana, Aprea, Ciro, Maiorino, Angelo, Masselli, Claudia
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Environmental impact
Heat pumps
Solid state
Total equivalent warming impact analysis
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Summary:In this paper the environmental impact of a solid-state caloric heat pump was evaluated. The system employs solid-state materials as refrigerants, exhibiting caloric effects based on external fields of different natures (magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, mechanocaloric). Such technology is accounted among the Not-In-Kind cooling technologies arisen as alternative to the well-established vapor compression-based systems. To this hope a TEWI analysis is performed on the caloric heat pump and the environmental impact, depending on the caloric materials employed, is compared with a Vapor Compression heat pumping system. The results show that for almost all the mechanocaloric materials tested, with respect to the VC plant, a reduction in terms of TEWI belonging to [-75; -40] % was detected.
ISSN:0094-243X
1551-7616
DOI:10.1063/1.5138824