This paper presents a comprehensive review on research and developments on solar assisted compression heat pump systems, mostly reported during the last two decades. The first part of this paper provides a detailed description of the past efforts on various system configurations, system modeling, enhancement of system performance, modifications in compression heat pump cycles and environment friendly refrigerant options for solar assisted compression heat pump systems. The economical and environmental impacts of solar assisted compression heat pump systems are also described. Further research needs in this important field of solar assisted compression heat pump are listed. The outcomes of this review confirm that, there is a lot of research scope for improving the performance of the system and reducing its initial cost to make it competitive in the global market. The information presented in this paper is shall be highly beneficial for the active researchers working presently on solar assisted compression heat pumps.

本文对太阳能辅助压缩热泵系统的研究和发展进行了全面的综述，主要报道了过去二十年。本文的第一部分详细描述了过去在各种系统配置，系统建模，系统性能增强，压缩热泵循环的修改以及太阳能辅助压缩热泵系统的环境友好型制冷剂选择方面所做的努力。还描述了太阳能辅助压缩热泵系统的经济和环境影响。列出了太阳能辅助压缩热泵这一重要领域的进一步研究需求。这次审查的结果证实，为了提高系统性能并降低其初始成本，使其在全球市场上具有竞争力，存在大量的研究范围。本文提供的信息对于目前从事太阳能辅助压缩热泵研究的活跃研究人员将是非常有益的。