Heat pump
similar to HVAC since it controls temperature.
usually replaces a boiler
heat pump UK planning permission
placement
avoid placing near the corners of a building.
Because cold air bounces back from the wall and go behind the unit reducing the average temperature of the air that heat is being extracted from (making the heat pump less efficient).
article on using heat pump not only for heating water, but for hot water e.g. shower, bath,
- to avoid Legionella need to heat water to 60
- electric immersion heater in hot water cylinder (simplest solution)
- hybrid system
- heat battery
- instantaneous water heater
- high-temperature heat pump (expensive)
heat pumps can be more than 100% efficient.
e.g. 300% means for every 1kW you put in, you get 3kW of cooling. (since you don’t cool, you just move energy)
Backlinks¶
- air to water heat pump
- air to air heatpump
- air source heat pump
- mini split
- ground source heat pump
- hybrid heat pump
- A hybrid heat pump consists of a combination of
- notes on Nilan Compact P2 GEO3 Polar
- variable refrigerant flow heat pump
- water source heatpump
- a heat pump using geothermal energy from a lake or river, to heat or cool your house