Could a ground source heat pump provide your home with a viable alternative to gas or electric heating? Find out how a ground source heat pump works and if it's worth installing one in your home. Get ...

“A target flow temperature of 35 C is specified for the considered standard outdoor temperature of -12.9 C,” the research team explained ... that the air source heat pump with a PV system ...

“The heat source side uses a thermal liquid,” the academics explained ... layer on heat transfer and on air flow.” The simulations showed that the heat pump system can achieve a COP of ...

Heat pumps warm buildings by absorbing heat from the air, ground, or water. Air-source pumps, for example, suck in outdoor air and pass it over tubes containing refrigerant fluids to produce heat.

You also need a bulky hose to vent hot moist air out of the house. But a relatively new technology is changing that. Instead of using a heater, these new dryers use a heat pump, and [Matt Ferrell ...

Help is at hand though courtesy of [petey53], who made his own ground source heat pump for his Toronto house using a pair of window-mounted air conditioning units. A custom copper “trombone ...

Most of the time, when we talk about heat pumps, we're talking about either air-source heat pumps -- basically reversible air conditioners -- or ground-source heat pumps, which pump a refrigerant ...

The federal and provincial governments are committing a quarter of a billion dollars to pay for 16,000 heat pumps for B.C.

How low can you go, really? That’s one question Alaska researchers are asking of a new grant-funded heat pump prototype this ...