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Heat Pumps: General working and types

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Heat Pumps: General working and types

Nobody is unfamiliar with cold winters in Sparta, Greece. And usage of several traditional and modern heating equipment like oil furnaces, coal furnaces, room heaters, air heaters, and many more to count with. But how many of the users would know exactly where the heat originates from? Most of them, whether consciously or unconsciously, rely on electric resistance baseboards, oil furnaces, or gas boilers to heat their houses. However, there is another option that is worth considering: heat pumps. Let’s learn a bit more about these devices.

What are heat pumps?

Heat pumps are the devices that are used to warm up the buildings or houses to get life going for many users. These might sometimes be used to cool the places too but as the name suggests the primary and popular function of heat pumps is to warm the places up. The most common types of heat pumps are air-source heat pumps, ground-source heat pumps, water source heat pumps, and exhaust heat pumps. These are very common for heating and cooling homes in cities like Sparta, where weather shows extreme climatic conditions.

Mechanism of heat pumps

Heat pumps are designed to use the vapour-compression technique in which the refrigerant absorbs heat from one space, compresses it, increases the temperature, and releases it in the space that needs to be heated up. Heat pumps employ liquid refrigerants and copper coils to take heat from the outside air, earth, or water and deliver it into dwellings, even in subzero temperatures. Heat pumps, unlike other heating alternatives, deliver both warmth and cooling. Heat pumps function as ordinary air conditioners in the summer by reversing the direction of the refrigerant flow. These devices cool rooms by removing warm air and moisture from within the house and discharging it outside. Heat pumps can be ducted or ductless.

Types of heat pumps

I. Air source heat pumps: Air source heat pumps also function in a cooling mode where they absorb heat via the internal heat exchanger and discharge it into the ambient air using the exterior heat exchanger. They are also commonly used to heat water for washing that has been stored in a household hot water tank.

ii. Exhaust air heat pumps: Exhaust air heat pumps extract heat from a building's exhaust air and require mechanical ventilation.

iii. Water source heat pumps: Water source heat pumps function as if heat is extracted from a huge water body like a reservoir, pond, lake, etc.

iv. Hybrid heat pumps: Considering the outside air temperature, hybrid (combination of two different sources) heat pumps draw heat from different sources, mingling them into two. When the temperature of the groundwater is above 4 to 8 degrees Celsius, they use air; at colder temperatures, they use the earth source.

So with these many alternatives for heat pumps, one can always get the best heat pumps from Arctic Heating Cooling and metal Fab for heating and cooling in Sparta, Greece, cities known for extreme climatic conditions.

John Luther is the author of this article.To know more about Heating and cooling Sparta please stay with our website:arcticheatcool.com

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