Application of customized absorption heat pumps with heating capacities above 500 kW : Project: Ackermannbogen, Munich

Part of: Thermally driven heat pumps for heating and cooling. – Ed.: Annett Kühn – Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, 2013 ISBN 978-3-7983-2686-6 (print) ISBN 978-3-7983-2596-8 (online) urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-39458 [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-39458]A solar heating system was installed at “Ackermannbogen” in Munich, where a residential area was built in 2007. To achieve a solar fraction larger than 50%, a large seasonal storage was installed to store solar surplus during summer and supply solar thermal heat in winter. To decrease the needed volume of this storage an absorption heat pump was installed into the system. This heat pump utilises heat from the storage and is driven by heat from a district heating grid. The low temperature heat is lifted to temperatures useable within the local heating grid to provide heat and domestic hot water to the residential area. Due to the demand on temperature levels of the system a “twin” absorption heat pump - consisting of two separate absorption heat pumps within a single shell - had to be installed for this application. In order to gain maximum benefit of the stored solar thermal energy the system controls change the mode of operation depending on the temperatures of the storage and the return temperature of the solar thermal collectors. The system was monitored and the collected data (capacities and temperatures of the absorption heat pump) of a representative day is shown in this paper

Application of customized absorption heat pumps with heating capacities above 500 kW: Project: VIVO, Warngau (near Munich)

Part of: Thermally driven heat pumps for heating and cooling. – Ed.: Annett Kühn – Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, 2013 ISBN 978-3-7983-2686-6 (print) ISBN 978-3-7983-2596-8 (online) urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-39458 [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-39458]In 2005 a gas fired single effect absorption heat pump was installed at the area of VIVO GmbH, who runs a local civic waste collection point. Besides other recyclable materials, biodegradable waste is collected here and composted. During the composting process heat is generated due to aerobic biological processes. As the exhaust air from the rotting heaps has to be cooled down due to process reasons, the heat has to be transferred to an auxiliary medium. Until 2005 the heat was set free to the environment by free air cooling. The thermally driven heat pump instead utilises this heat and supplies heat on a useful temperature level to a local district heating grid. The local district heating grid supplies heat to office buildings of VIVO GmbH as well as to a nearby industrial area. Hence, the heat pump has two beneficial effects on this application, it cools down a process were cooling is needed and uses this energy for fuel saving in a heating grid, which runs basically on oil burners instead