USA: Democratic and Republican congressmen have introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives, which mirrors legislation from the Senate to phase down HFC refrigerants. The legislation, The American Innovation and Manufacturing Leadership Act (HR 5544), was introduced on January 7. It will be the subject of a legislative hearing...
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Image: Left: Regenerator diagram. Right: Proof of heating and cooling Current heat pumping technologies use a vapor compression cycle with a liquid refrigerant. In recent years there has been an increased interest in systems using a solid refrigerant instead, eliminating the negative environmental impact of today’s refrigerants. It is common...
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The use of energy for space cooling is growing faster than any other end use in buildings, more than tripling over the past three decades. Global sales of air conditioners (ACs) have been growing steadily and significantly: since 1990, annual sales of ACs nearly quadrupled to 135 million units. There...
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The US National Team of HPT TCP arranged an interesting workshop at NIST, Gaithersburg in US on November 1 focusing on the latest news covering market, policy and research. Melissa Lapsa talked about the market development in the US and told that the market for heat pumps and AC has...
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Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in the 13th IEA Heat Pump Conference in Jeju, Korea. The Heat Pump Conference is the perfect place to interact with researchers, industry and market representatives, policy makers, all gathered around the topic; Heat pumping technology. About the 13th conference Energy and the environment...
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We are pleased to announce that a new open access journal paper on long-term performance monitoring of GSHP systems has been published in Energies, as a result from the work within IEA HPT Annex 52: Bockelmann, F. and M. N. Fisch. (2019). It works – Long-term performance measurement and optimisation...
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Fig.: Exploded diagram of an electrochemical compressor cell. To a layman, a heat pump seems to magically draw heat from thin air. But behind that perceived magic is a construction with mechanical compression of fluids, supplying the work needed for useful heating and cooling. This article presents an alternative...
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At November 26-28, 2018 the 6th working meeting of IEA HPT Annex 46 on “domestic hot water (DHW) heat pump systems” took place at the NTB in Buchs, Switzerland. On the first day the occasion was used for an exchange of information between the Annex 46 and the Annex 49...
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