Water Source Heat Pump

A water source heat pump operates like a traditional air source heat pump, but it extracts and dissipates heat by way of water instead of air.

Required Objects

The water source heat pump (WSHP) must have the following properties.

  1. It must be attached to a conditioned zone.
  2. It must be connected to a condenser loop.

Design Assumptions

Property Value Notes
System air flow Constant
Cooling supply air temperature 12.78C
Heating supply air temperature 40C

Cooling Coil

The cooling coil has the following assumptions.
Property Value Notes
Coil leaving air temperature 12.78°C
COP 3.0

Heating Coil

The heating coil has the following assumptions.
Property Value Notes
Coil leaving air temperature 40°C
COP 3.0

Supplemental Heating Coil

This is an electric resistance coil with an efficiency of 1.0.

Supply Fan

The supply fan has the following properties.

Property Value Notes
Pressure rise 300 Pa
Total efficiency 60%
Motor efficiency 80%