Evaluación Energética y Económica de Calefacción de Hogares por Bomba de Calor en Bariloche, Montevideo y Santiago:

Luis Eduardo  Juanicó; Italo Bove Vanzulli

doi:10.22209/rt.v45n1a06

Luis Eduardo Juanicó Instituto Patagónico de Tecnologías Biológicas y Geoambientales (IPATEC), Consejo Nacional Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET) y Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, (8400), Río Negro, Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2422-647X
Italo Bove Vanzulli Laboratorio de Energía Solar, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, CP 11.300, Montevideo, Uruguay https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8450-8183

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22209/rt.v45n1a06

Keywords: household heat pump heaters, air-to-air heat pump, air-source water heat pump, household flue-draft gas heaters, household gas boilers

Abstract

Climate change forces to improve the efficiency of energy consumption. This work develops a methodology for energy and economic assessment related to replacing a standard household heating system fueled by natural gas, LPG, or conventional electric heaters, with a modern heat pump (inverter). As its efficiency is related to the temperature difference between the outdoor and indoor environments, the efficiency varies depending on the location of the city. Thus, the performance is studied in Bariloche, Santiago de Chile, and Montevideo (Average annual temperature of 8.3, 14.6 and 16.3 °C, respectively), using the following systems: 1) air-air, installing several Split devices; and 2) air-water, installing a heat pump that provides heating by water radiators. This methodology allows sizing these systems and calculating annual savings, exemplified for a 50 m² social housing. In all the cases studied, moderate to notable reductions in consumption and savings were achieved (and investment payback periods of less than two years), except for natural gas in Bariloche and Montevideo. It is also discussed how their moderated investment can be an affordable first solution, as opposed to the expensive thermal rehabilitation, for obtaining more sustainable housing.

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Author Biographies

Luis Eduardo Juanicó, Instituto Patagónico de Tecnologías Biológicas y Geoambientales (IPATEC), Consejo Nacional Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET) y Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, (8400), Río Negro, Argentina

Luis Juanicó obtained their Doctor (PhD) and Engineer degrees in Nuclear Engineering at the Balseiro Institute (Argentinean National University of Cuyo), in which he was also Professor during 21 years. Besides, he was Head of the Department of New Energy Technologies at the Petroleum&Gas Holding PECON S.A, and from 2003 he work as scientific researcher (independent degree) at the Argentinean National Council of Scientific Researches (Conicet) and he is also invited professor at both Argentinean National Universities: Comahue and Rosario. Among his scientific production, it is remarkable the one hundred of works published in international high-quality journals and the two hundreds of works presented in international congresses, together with a dozen of invention patents, all of them covering many issues and different subjects related to Innovative Energy Technologies.

Italo Bove Vanzulli, Laboratorio de Energía Solar, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, CP 11.300, Montevideo, Uruguay

He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of the Republic (UdelaR), Uruguay, in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Physics from the University of Barcelona, Spain, in 2002 in experimental fluid dynamics. He is currently Associate Professor of the Physics Institute of the UdelaR Faculty of Engineering. His field of research is related to Solar Thermal Energy, Energy Efficiency and physics of fluid. He works in the Solar Energy Laboratory of the UdelaR, directing the Thermal part of it. It combines basic and applied research, related to specific issues of the local reality.

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Energy and Economic Assessment of Household Space Heating by Heat Pumps in Bariloche, Montevideo and Santiago