Heat pumps function similarly to refrigerators or air conditioners, which take warm air from one space and send it to another. In the winter, a heat pump transfers heat from the outdoors inside and, ...

A New Hampshire company will use a federal grant to bring space-worthy compressor technology down to Earth to better heat and cool people’s homes. The $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of ...

The heat pump has become a common fixture in many parts of modern life. We now have reverse-cycle air conditioning, heat pump hot water systems, and even heat pump dryers. These home appliances ...

When Jack Schniepp’s furnace began to fail this winter in his two-story Bend home, he and his wife decided they’d tear it out and replace it with a heat pump. “We wanted to do it for climate-related ...

The current standards for water heaters, which are specified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) in 10 CFR 430.32(d), have been in effect since 2010. One aspect of the upcoming changes is the ...

With a little guidance on ground-source heat pump design temperatures and a few rules of thumb for ground loop flow rates, most engineers are pretty comfortable designing the building side of a ground ...

Researchers at Chiang Mai University in Thailand have evaluated the performance of an indirect-expansion photovoltaic-thermal-assisted heat pump (IDX-PVT-AHP) system designed for hot-water production ...