Nina Dmytrenko

Nina Dmytrenko came to Carleton in 2013 and has been working since on her MASc (supervised by Professor Ian Morrison and Professor Cynthia Cruickshank).  Her research is examining strategies to improve the performance of air-source heat pumps during periods of extreme cold and hot conditions.  The goal is to increase the capacity and coefficient of performance of the heat pump during these extreme periods by supplying air to the outdoor heat exchanger from a short-term rock-bed thermal store, thus obviating the need for back-up heating.  She is currently conducting experiments at the Urbandale Centre for Home Energy Research using a cold-climate air-source heat pump coupled to a rock-bed thermal store.