{"id":5604,"date":"2016-05-13T13:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T11:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2016-05-13T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T11:50:23","slug":"heat-pumps-how-do-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/5604\/heat-pumps-how-do-they-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat pumps, how do they work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the pen of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingegneri.info\/autore\/fabrizio-gallelli\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fabrizio Gallelli<\/a>, directly on the italian language site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingegneri.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.ingegneri.info<\/a>, here&#8217;s an interesting article on the topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heat_pump\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Heat pumps<\/strong><\/a>, explaning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingegneri.info\/news\/impianti\/come-funzionano-le-pompe-di-calore-elettriche-per-il-riscaldamento\/?utm_campaign=Ingegneri-Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">how this kind of thermal machines work<\/a>, achieving <strong>energy efficiency<\/strong> using a combination of a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve and an evaporator.<\/p>\n<p>The topic is mostly referred to civil and residential conditioning and <strong>HVAC<\/strong>, more than to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.tempco.it\/solutions-en\/chillers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>chillers<\/strong><\/a> for industrial refrigeration. Anyway it helps in a clear way on the kinds of heat pumps existing, and working principles of this coolers\/heaters.<\/p>\n<p>Heat pumps provide heat from a cold source, ground, water or environment air, absorbing heat from the <strong>cold source<\/strong> employing electric power and transferring thermal energy to a <strong>heat sink<\/strong>. A heat pump can be three to four times more efficient than simple electrical resistance heaters.<\/p>\n<p>The cycle can also be reversible obtaining residential <strong>conditioning and cooling<\/strong> during summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/lca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/lca.jpg\" alt=\"Chiller refrigeratori 5\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the pen of Fabrizio Gallelli, directly on the italian language site www.ingegneri.info, here&#8217;s an interesting article on the topic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,81,64,73,82,66,84],"tags":[544,541,536,177,127,538,126,74,540,543,535,542,137,537,539,382,427],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-compressor","category-condenser","category-cooling","category-energy-saving","category-evaporator","category-heating","category-thermal-energy","tag-air","tag-compressors","tag-condensers","tag-conditioning","tag-cooling-2","tag-electrical-resistances","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-energy-saving-2","tag-evaporators","tag-heat","tag-heat-pumps","tag-heat-sink","tag-heating-2","tag-hvac","tag-residential","tag-thermal-energy","tag-water"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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