Quasi-dynamic energy-saving judgment of electric-driven seawater source heat pump district heating system over boiler house district heating system

The electric-driven seawater source heat pump district heating system is a renewable energy utilization system, but this cannot guarantee the energy-saving effect of the system. The static energy-saving judgment between this system and the conventional boiler house district heating system was provided in a former research paper. However the static method has proved to be a very rough evaluation method and may lead to misjudgment as well. So a quasi-dynamic method, taking the total energy consumption during a whole heating season into consideration, is established in this paper. The energy-saving index turns out to be the expression of the lower limit of the average COP of the seawater source heat pump unit throughout the heating season (COPh,mc). Then a case study is presented to show how the index of COPh,mc and the actual average COP of the heat pump unit throughout the heating season (COPh,mc) are calculated. The calculation results show that the quasi-dynamic method improves the calculation accuracy dramatically, and thus provides a better solution to the quantitative energy-saving evaluation of the electric-driven seawater source heat pump district heating system. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.