Buying An Air Source Heat Pump - All You Need To Know
Posted on February 19, 2008 - Filed Under Home Improvement | Leave a Comment
Heat pumps are machines that can take heat from one place and then deliver that heat to another place at a higher temperature. Your home refrigerator is similar to a heat pump. The difference is that the refrigerator does not compress the refrigerant gas to raise the temperature, it just draws the heat from the contents of your fridge and dispatches that heat through the heat exchanger (the grill) at the rear of the fridge.Heat pumps extract renewable energy from the ground, water or air (which have been heated from the sun) and transfer it to your home at a ratio of 1:4 or more. Let’s say for every 1 KW/h of electrical energy that you use to drive the heat pump, around 4 KW/h of heat will be produced for use in your home.
There are three different types of heat pumps:
