Heat Pump

2015.05.26

1.1.2 Canada

According to the Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute (HRAI) of Canada, commercial air conditioner shipments decreased 17.5% from 40,030 units in 2013 to 33,040 units in 2014. Commercial air conditioning units are classified as rooftops (combination heating/ cooling), packaged cooling, and packaged heat pumps with capacity over 5 RT.   Ducted residential air conditioner shipm...

2015.05.22

Daikin UK launches loyalty scheme

22 May 2015 Renewable heating specialist Daikin UK has launched its new loyalty scheme for installers of Daikin Altherma air-to-water heat pumps and renewable heating products. The scheme, called Daki...

2015.05.25

Kensa Heat Pumps to cohost event with Trent & Dove Housing

21 May 2015 Trent & Dove Housing and Kensa Heat Pumps will be taking housing associations on a journey to combat fuel poverty with heating system upgrades at a one-off event at the Pirelli Stadium...

2015.05.24

CHP Market Expected to Be Worth More than $14 Billion Annual

May 21, 2015 BOULDER, Colo. -- In light of concerns about grid reliability, demand for electricity, and greenhouse gas emissions, policymakers, utilities, and building owners in a growing number of countries are becoming more interested in commercial combined heat and power (CHP) systems, notes Navigant Research. In fact, governments around the world are increasingly focused on boosting subsidies ...

2015.05.20

GSHPs Get Popular in Urban Area

Cities in South China seldom have central heating systems. Ground-source heat pump (GSHP) air conditioning systems have become gradually popular during the recent years with advantages such as using r...

2015.05.23

Revolutionary boostHEAT Technology Attracts Key Partners

boostHEAT, a dynamic recently founded company based in Ales in the South of France (head office) and Toulouse (R&D), has merged a boiler and a heat pump, thus creating a single very efficient and ...

2015.05.22

GSHP Provides a 50% Renewable Energy Rate in Paris Suburb

A first in France: a new geothermal heat pump is providing a 50% renewable energy rate in a district heating system in Creteil, a Paris suburb.   Thanks to the high-temperature heat pump and a connection to a waste incinerator, Creteil’s heating network heats over 33,200 apartments.   In order to raise the renewable energy rate in the energy mix of the network, Dalkia’s engineers designe...

2015.05.14

Energy Storage Now a Hot Topic

In the not so distant future, energy storage will figure as an essential element in making use of alternatives such as solar and wind power as well as its more traditional role in optimizing air conditioning, heat pump and combined heat and power systems. A three-day conference Energy Storage Europe 2015 held in Duesseldorf in March this year attracted some 1,800 delegates from 48 countries - twic...

2015.05.14

Nanofilms in Heat Transfer

A number of European research centers have been experimenting with the use of nanofilms and other micro surface treatments to enhance the performance of heat exchangers. Work to date suggests that there are real prospects of reducing film resistance in heat transfer and inhibiting ice formation and adhesion on finned evaporators. The technique is also being developed for the liquid side of heat ex...

2015.05.15

Heat Pump Market Recovery in France

After falling from a peak of over 150,000 units in 2008 to around 60,000 in 2010 sales of air- to-water heat pumps for domestic space heating levelled out and by 2014 had re-covered to over 73,000 units.   The main reason for the 2008 sales plunge says Thierry Nille, president of the French heat pump association, was the reduction in the beneficial government tax rebate concession. Today the ...