Heat Pump
Warming up for the winter chill
November 03, 2013 In 2000 we moved into an apartment in Tokyo run by the semi-public housing corporation UR. It was new and had a natural-gas heating system. Unlike other gas systems we’d used in the past, however, this one heated water that was then circulated to outlets in different rooms in the apartment. Direct gas ignition devices we’d bought for previous apartments were useless in our new on...
New regulations set for 2014
28 Oct 2013 GEMS Determination New regulatory requirements for air conditioners and heat pumps will be introduced from April 1, 2014. It covers air conditioners and heat pumps manufactured loca...
August A/C Shipments Down, Heat Pump Shipments Up
30 - October - 2013 Arlington, Va. -- United States shipments of central air conditioners and air-source heat pumps totaled 500,813 units in August 2013, down 2.9 percent from 515,530 units shipped in August 2012, according to the latest statistics from the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI). U.S. shipments of central air conditioners decreased 5.7 percent, to 347,718 un...
Yanmar Launches New GHP with Independent Electric Power Sour
Yanmar Energy Systems has developed the High Power Plus* (20 hp), a gas heat pump (GHP) air conditioner with an independent electric power source capable of air conditioning operation using gas even d...
Heat Pumps Can Save 2.5 Billion
According to a study conducted by Carbone 4, the use of heat pumps in housing currently heated using domestic fuel would generate huge savings by avoiding oil imports and would also reduce CO2 emissions by 20 million tons per year. In France, housing consumes more energy than any other sector, and energy renovation is a major issue. Even though the consumption of domestic fuel dropped 18% b...
Mitsubishi Electric's heat pump technology benefits communit
22 - October - 2013 Mitsubishi Electric’s Ecodan heat pump technology is helping a new eco-friendly housing development in London which will get the energy for its heating and hot water directly from ...
Limiting Chiller Noise
A means of reducing noise emission from chillers when the level exceeds a set point has been developed by Cool- Therm in the United Kingdom who markets the Turbocor machine. This so-called dynamic noise control (DNC) technique uses an audio processing system in which the detecting microphone is mounted either on the chiller or at a point where noise level is a critical factor: for example, where i...
Energy Label Cake: Celebrating Renewable Heating and Cooling
21 October 2013 The European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) has celebrated the official publication of the Regulation on the Ecodesign of Lot 1 and 2 with the cutting of the “Energy Label Cake” during t...
European Heat Pump Summit 2013: meeting-place for internatio
? Talks between specialists from 26 countries ? Focus on expertise 16.10.2013 The European Heat Pump Summit 2013 - powered by Chillventa turned Nurnberg into Heat Pump City on 15?16 October 2013. More than 250 international congress participants sourced information on current questions concerning the status quo and the future of heat pumps at presentations given by well-known speakers ...
Combining thermal energy storage and heat pumps
11/10/2013 A borehole thermal energy storage (TES) system, used in conjunction with heat pumps is designed to heat and cool buildings at the north campus of the University of Ontario (UOIT) in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The system has been operating since 2004 and integrates heat pumps which operate alternatively in heating or cooling mode and the borehole TES which also includes ground-base...
LG to launch new generation heat recovery and heat pump syst
10 - October - 2013 LG is holding four regional events this November, to launch the new generation of VRF Multi V IV heat recovery and heat pump system. The hosted events are taking place at the LG T...
First hybrid R290 heat pump and gas water heater system for
09 October 2013 To celebrate the shipment of the very first R290 hybrid heat pump (HP) unit, more than 70 attendees including the president of the company, Soichiro Kokui, gathered at Kandatsu Factory...
