Heat Transfer

Work in progress page Project Goal The goal of this project was to create a cart that could be used to test an electric heat pump on a water heater. Research Goals The research being conducted is to improve the cold weather efficiency of heat pumps, in particular those in water heaters. As temperatures near the evaporator side of a heat exchanger get below 0 the water that condenses on them can freeze. This freezing can cause frost build up and greatly decrease the performance of a heat pump. Here a coating is in developmenet to greatly delay the time until frost growth and spreading ...

Skills used Python Visual Studio Code Final Goal Create a program that displays a heatmap that updates in real time for a space. With a final goal of being able to run as a containerized add-on in the home automation software Home-Assistant Progress Currently the program runs in the simple python GUI editor tkinter. Users see a grid which they can select where their sensors are on the grid and enter temperature values for those sensors, to act as an temporary manual input. ...