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Research & Development
Lochinvar unveils heat pump to supply hot water at up to 70 C Lochinvar has developed a heat pump with a hot water supply of up to 70 C, with a coefficient of performance (COP) of 5.5. The system is entirely cascadable, offering outputs ranging from 88 kW to 880 kW. It also includes 455 liters of hot water storage capacity and uses propane (R290) as a refrigerant.
Emiliano Bellini
Aug 29, 2023
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Applications & Installations
Austrian supplier unveils heat pump adaptive to PV, weather, power prices Austria’s Ökofen has developed a residential heat pump that identifies cost-effective and eco-friendly electricity in real time, in order to optimize heat production. It is now seeking a patent for its proprietary control technology.
Petra Hannen
Aug 28, 2023
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Applications & Installations
3U launches heat pump for residential applications Germany’s 3U Holding AG said its ThermCube heat pump is an ideal solution for new and existing detached and semi-detached houses with a total heat demand of between 6 kW and 11 kW. The new product has reportedly a heat output of 2.33 kW to 8.20 kW and a flow temperature of up to 70 C.
Emiliano Bellini
Aug 25, 2023
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Markets & Policy
Decentralized heat pumps with district heating could cut opex by 24% Researchers in Finland say that decentralized heat pumps could provide significant cost savings when selling surplus heat into district networks. However, they warned that capital expenditure remains high.
Lior Kahana
Aug 25, 2023
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Applications & Installations
Retrofitting old residential buildings with hybrid heat pumps New research shows that hybrid heat pumps combining an electric heat pump and a gas boiler represent a technically feasible and economically viable solution to partially decarbonize heat supply in older dwellings. Gas and electricity prices, however, are crucial factors in real scenarios.
Emiliano Bellini
Aug 24, 2023
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Applications & Installations
Bosch sells new propane heat pumps with PV packages Bosch is currently selling the new heat pumps in the DACH markets and is planning to expand sales in other European markets in September. The new products use propane as the refrigerant and integrated sound diffusers. The manufacturer is also offering a power meter/sensor enabling the heat pumps to work with any existing PV system and battery storage solution at home.
Emiliano Bellini
Aug 22, 2023
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Applications & Installations
European heat pump businesses secure funding Octopus Energy has agreed to invest $89 million to scale up Kensa Group, a ground-source heat pump business, while KfW IPEX-Bank has agreed to provide $129.6 million of financing to German heat pump manufacturer Valliant.
Emiliano Bellini
Aug 10, 2023
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Applications & Installations
Control system to allow users take control of air-source heat pumps Researchers in Korea have designed applied machine learning techniques to enable users to have more control of the timing of heating and cooling in air-source heat pumps. The system is based on backpropagation, which is an algorithm designed to test for errors working back from output nodes to input nodes.
Emiliano Bellini
Aug 09, 2023
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Applications & Installations
Ideal Heating starts heat pump production in UK UK-based boiler specialist Ideal Heating has opened its first heat pump production in Hull, England. It said that it has invested around GBP 60 million ($76.5 million) in the new production line.
Emiliano Bellini
Aug 08, 2023