美国采暖、制冷和空调工程师协会（ASHRAE）技术委员会的一个主要作用是为采暖、通风和空调（HVAC）行业制定公平且技术准确的设备性能标准。随着为市场开发新的和改进的HVAC设备，还需要基于可靠的工程分析和可用数据评估的新的或更新的ASHRAE标准。本研究项目的目标如下:A.回顾当前的电力、水蒸气库存- 压缩热泵方法-测试并确定这些测试方法中隐含的工程假设，以及其他相关热泵测试方法。B.进行工程分析，以评估燃气发动机热泵性能对先前确定的测试假设方法的敏感性。C.评估假设的适当性，必要时，制定适用于燃气发动机热泵的替代假设。D.建议进行一系列实验室试验，以验证工程分析结果。

A major role of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Technical Committees is to develop equipment performance standards for the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) industry that are fair and technically accurate. As new and improved HVAC equipment is developed for the market, new or updated ASHRAE standards based on sound engineering analyses and assessment of available data are also needed.The objectives of this research project were as follows:A. Review the current inventory of electric, vapor-compression heat pump Methodsof- Testing and identify the engineering assumptions implicit in those testing methods, as well as other relevant heat pump testing methods.B. Perform engineering analyses to evaluate the sensitivity of gas engine heat pump performance to the Methods-of-Testing assumptions previously identified.C. Assess the appropriateness of the assumptions and, where necessary, develop alternative assumptions that apply to gas engine heat pumps.D. Recommend a series of laboratory tests to validate the engineering analyses results.