Ideas and Proposals
HPT welcomes ideas and topics for new international collaborations!
If you have a suggestion for an international collaborative project of the IEA Heat Pumping Technologies, please contact the Heat Pump Centre. The HPT aims to increase the number of collaborative projects and your suggestions are therefore very welcome.
The strategy for the TCP for 2023-2028 includes performing RDD&D activities within the areas of heating, cooling and refrigeration for the building, community, transport and industrial sectors, while widening the scope to include the following points to a larger extent.
RDD&D Priority Areas 2023-2028

The following ideas/proposals are right now under development of becoming a new Annex in the Heat Pumping Technologies TCP. If you are interested in any of the ideas or have other ideas, please contact the person listed in the table below, your ExCo delegate or the Heat Pump Centre.
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Digital Services for Heat Pumps (Contact: Bernd Windholz, Bernd.Windholz@ait.ac.at
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Proposal
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Optimal Heat Pump Design and Operation for Broader Acceptance (Contact: Riley Bradley Barta, bartar@purdue.edu
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Proposal
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Comfort and Climate Box for warm and humid climates (Contact: Kashif Nawas, nawazk@ornl.gov
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Proposal
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Process Integration of High-Temperature Heat Pumps (Contact: Benjamin Zühlsdorf, bez@teknologisk.dk
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Proposal
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Heat pumps for hydrogen and carbon capture (Contact: Veronika Wilk, Veronika.Wilk@ait.ac.at)
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Proposal
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Flexibility from large heat pumps in district energy systems and industrial hubs Contact: Morten Herget Christensen, mohc@teknologisk.dk
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Proposal
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Enhanced miniaturized components Contact: Viktor.Olen Viktor.Olen@skvp.se
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Idea
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Monitoring of Advanced Vapor-Compression and non-Vapour-Compression Technologies for Heating, Cooling and refrigeration Contact: Heat Pump Centre, Metkel Yebiyo metkel.yebiyo@ri.se
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Idea
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New or alternative business models for heat pumps Contact: Heat Pump Centre, Caroline Haglund Stignor, caroline.haglundstignor@ri.se
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Idea
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Health and energy-efficiency: Win-win or not? Contact: Marion Bakker marion.bakker@rvo.nl
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Parked
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Energy storage with heat pumps in smart energy grids. Contact: Peter Wagener wagener@bdho.nl
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Parked
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Communication/diagnostic protocols for heat pumps. Continuation of Annex 36 “Quality installation/quality maintenance sensitivity studies” Contact: Ed Vineyard vineyardea@gmail.com
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Parked
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Sector Coupling – Survey of practical examples and a “Warts and all” evaluation of the implementation process Contact: Heat Pump Centre, Caroline Haglund Stignor caroline.haglundstignor@ri.se
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Parked
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