Cooling and Heating Season Impacts of Right-Sizing of Fixed- and Variable-Capacity Heat Pumps with Attic and Indoor Ductwork

Primary Author(s)

Florida Solar Energy Center
James Cummings, Florida Solar Energy Center

Report Number

FSEC-CR-2040-15

URL

http://publications.energyresearch.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FSEC-CR-2040-15.pdf

Keywords

Cooling; Buildings; Heating; Ducts; Heat Pumps; Cooling and heating performance; SEER rating; Attic ductwork; Indoor ductwork

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Energy's research team Building America Partnership for Advanced Residential Construction implemented two phases of experiments to examine the cooling and heating seasonal and peak demand performance of a variable-capacity 2-ton SEER 22 heat pump versus a 3-ton variable-capacity SEER 21 heat pump with attic ducts and indoor ducts. The experiments also compared the cooling and heating seasonal and peak demand performance of 2-ton versus 3-ton fixed-capacity SEER 13 heat pumps with attic ducts and indoor ducts.

Date Published

6-1-2015

Identifiers

147

Subjects

Heat pumps; Heating; Air conditioning; Dwellings--Energy conservation; Buildings--Energy conservation

Local Subjects

Buildings - Cooling; Buildings - Ducts; Heat Pumps; Heating

Type

Text; Document

Collection

FSEC Energy Research Center® Collection

STARS Citation

Florida Solar Energy Center and Cummings, James, "Cooling and Heating Season Impacts of Right-Sizing of Fixed- and Variable-Capacity Heat Pumps with Attic and Indoor Ductwork" (2015). FSEC Energy Research Center®. 147.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fsec/147