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Heat pump technology on the horizon.

Author(s) : CRAWFORD J. G.

Summary

Heating and air-conditioning are among the largest energy uses in modern buildings. Although Lord Kelvin identified the heat pumping process almost 150 years ago, practical hardware did not come into wide-spread use until after World War II. Today, several million heat pumps are produced each year on a worldwide basis. The factors to be considered in the forecast of technology are: the function of a heat pump, the diversity of demand, curb-side energy source for power, energy source/sink for the thermal process, basic heat pumping process, compression mechanism, thermal distribution subsystem, efficiency trajectory, frosting, and refrigerant selection.

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  • Original title: Heat pump technology on the horizon.
  • Record ID : 1998-2534
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Refrigerants for the 21st century. ASHRAE-NIST refrigerants Conference.
  • Publication date: 1997/10/06
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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