A conference paper on long-term performance monitoring of GSHP systems has been published in the proceedings from Piling 2020, as a result from the work within IEA HPT Annex 52: Turner, J.L., F. Loveridge, S. Rees, W. Powrie, M Crane, J. Kiauk., K.G. Higgins, Y. Ainsworty, D.G. Toll, and A.S....
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The HPC2020 online conference on April 26-29 offers four presentations related to the work within IEA HPT Annex 52 - Long-term performance monitoring of GSHP systems for commercial, institutional and multi-family buildings: Tuesday April 27th, Session 1C. Tommy Walfridson (180): Long-term evaluation of an office building with large-scale heat pump and aquifer...
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The City of Helsinki in Finland has arranged a year-long international Energy Challenge to find future-proof solutions to heat the city during decades to come. The competition attracted 252 proposals from 35 countries. An international jury has now selected four winners from the ten finalists in the Helsinki Energy Challenge....
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Two new open access journal papers on long-term performance monitoring of GSHP systems have recently been published in Energies, as a result from the work within IEA HPT Annex 52: Todorov, O., K. Alanne, M. Virtanen, R. Kosonen. (2021). A Novel Data Management Methodology and Case Study for Monitoring and Performance Analysis...
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Tesla’s addition of a heat pump to its 2021 Model 3 seams to be an energy saver. The climate system of the new model is proving to be around three times more efficient than older builds of the vehicle, according to Telarati.com. The range for electrical vehicles are not only...
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The Final Report for HPT TCP Annex 48 - "Industrial Heat Pumps, Second Phase" is finalized with a variety of useful tools for implementing the technique in industrial processes. The overarching objective of Annex 48 was to create a tool for decisions makers to use more Industrial Heat Pumps (IHPs)...
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The team behind “The Global Cooling Prize” are performing tests of the Finalist’s prototypes at the CEPT University lab in India. The team is very content with the results of the ongoing tests: “This lab testing will continue into March 2021, but we are very encouraged by preliminary data of...
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The Annual Report of HPT Annex 54, Heat pump systems with low GWP refrigerants , is now published on the HPT Website. The report provides a comprehensive, up-to-date review of current research, product development and regulation status of low-GWP refrigerants for the heat pump application. It summarizes the collective efforts...
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