Abstract: A system for controlling a sorption heat pump. Fuel is fed to a burner via a feed line and a fuel valve. The burner heats a generator containing a heat transfer fluid such as a mixture of water and ammonia and generates pressure inside the generator. The vapors produced by the heating are condensed in a condenser. The condensed heat transfer fluid vapors are throttled and passed into an evaporator. The output fluid from the evaporator is returned via an absorber to the generator. Heat is exchanged between the fluid and a circulating medium for a thermal use provision in the condenser and in the absorber. An intensive thermodynamic parameter such as pressure or temperature of the fluid in the pressurized section of the sorption heat pump is controlled depending on the heat requirements of the thermal use provision and/or the thermal input from the environment into the evaporator. The generator and condenser can be constructed as a joint unit preferably with an intermediate rectifying column.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of determining the set point of a pressure and temperature controller for the high-pressure part of a sorption heat pump.Since the manufacturer of sorption heat pumps does not know from the outset at which location the heat pump is to be installed, such heat pumps cannot be preadjusted, but must be adjusted individually at the location of installation in accordance with the requirements of the user and the expected outdoor temperature.It is the object of the present invention to provide possibilities for preadjusting the temperature and pressure controllers of sorption heat pumps to values which are subsequently varied only in dependence on the day-to-day operating conditions.