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Heat Pump calculations

Heat Pump calculations

Heat Pump calculations

(OP)
Hi All

I am not sure if this is the correct forum to post this in. If it is in the wrong one my apologies.
I could do with some help with some calculations on a boiler. My area is more on the electrical and BMS side.
I have a project where I have the values of a number of points on an Mbus network and I need to visualise some of the results. The readings I have and there values at the time of writing this can be seen in the image.



I need to try and calculate the following;

Gas into the heat pump per hour
Heat out of the heat pump per hour
Heat Pump Efficiency per hour (Heat Out/Gas In)
Heat Pump Efficiency per day (Heat Out/Gas In)
Mean Ambient temperature per hour
Mean Ambient temperature per day
A correlation between the heat pump efficiency and the ambient temperature

If anybody could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.

RE: Heat Pump calculations

A good starting point would be an understanding of what each of those data points represents physically.

RE: Heat Pump calculations

First, you would get more response if this was in the HVAC/R forum.
Second, a 'Boiler' is NOT a 'Heat Pump', you will need to confirm/clarify exactly what type of equipment you are looking at.
Third, you're going to need to get more information than what I see in the image you provided. Some sort of graphic showing where sensors are located relative to the device.
Without a graphic or better descriptions of what each point is, the table you provided is near useless.

Some things to keep in mind:
Gas usage is provide in one of 2 ways either by heat potential (W/Hr) or most frequently by volume(M3/Hr).
A watt (W) is a measure of energy as is heat.

If you want to find a correlation between efficiency and ambient temperature you will need to build a log of information over time. What you provide here would be just one point in this log. The more points you have the better your conclusions will be.

RE: Heat Pump calculations

You need to hire an HVAC Engineer to help you with this. Don't try to bootstrap this.

RE: Heat Pump calculations

It seems to me that with the readings that you presented, the computer program would be a diagram of the entire set up with notations explaining the terms that you presented.

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