Submission system now open The abstract submission system for the 13th IEA Heat Pump Conference is now open. The abstracts will be screened by an appropriate Regional Coordinator and authors will be advised of acceptance. Deadline: the 15th of May. More information can be found on the Conference homepage or in the...
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The Global Cooling Prize has developed a Prize Criteria Tool so you can estimate how your technology will score in the Prize. All the participating cooling technologies need to demonstrate that they meet or exceed the Primary and Supplementary Prize Criteria of the Global Cooling Prize to compete in the competition. The...
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We are happy to announce that Norway is now a participant in Annex 52 "Long term performance measurement of GSHP Systems serving commercial, institutional and multi-family buildings". We say welcome to our new participating country, and look forward to working together and learning from Norwegian GSHP monitoring projects and experience....
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Bill Gates energy fund, which is also backed by a number of other heavy tech giants, has now made a substantial investment in the financing company. Climeon utilizes waste heat from, among other things, steel mills and cruise ships and converts it into electricity. It has also looked at extracting...
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Although heat and cold are of the same physical nature, they have played different roles in the history of human civilisation. Prometheus, the mythological hero who bestowed the divine fire of Olympus to mankind, is glorified in immortal works of art. On the contrary, to date, the pioneers who created...
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The 6th IEA HPT Annex 49 working meeting was held at the University Center of the University of Innsbruck in Obergurgl, Austria on February 25-27, 2019. It has been attended by the seven countries AT, CH, DE, EE, NO, SE and the USA. Due the vicinity of the site all...
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Dr. Yunho Hwang is a research professor and associate director of the Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE) in the United States. Today he is also the Operating Agent for Annex (project) 54 within the HPT TCP. The Annex aims at promoting low-GWP refrigerant application to accelerate phase-down of high-GWP HFCs...
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First they depleted the ozone layer, then they contributed to global warming, and now they might exacerbate fires. That is the history of refrigerant substances, in brief. And now the flammability of different refrigerants needs to be taken care of. The current phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) refrigerants is due to...
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