{"id":6889,"date":"2019-04-05T14:39:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2019-04-05T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T12:42:39","slug":"what-is-and-how-it-works-a-heat-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/6889\/what-is-and-how-it-works-a-heat-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"What is and how it works a Heat Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always had a problem with the term \u2018Heat pump<\/strong><\/a>\u2019, because I think it can be confusing. A heat pump is indeed a refrigeration unit<\/strong><\/a> with a reversible cycle<\/strong>, able to operate both for heating and cooling, as I\u2019m explaining in this new tutorial on our Tempco Youtube channel<\/strong><\/a> (turns English subtitles on). As we all know, chillers don\u2019t really \u2018produce cold\u2019, but they remove heat from the inside sending it to a condenser<\/strong><\/a>. That\u2019s exactly what happens in the home refrigerators we all have in our kitchens, if we check the back of it we can feel it hot.<\/p>\n

The heat pump<\/a> thus operates as a refrigerator during the summer, removing heat from the ambient to be conditioned using a cold heat exchanger<\/a><\/strong>, called evaporator<\/strong>. Here, the freon evaporates<\/strong> removing the heat from air, liquid or fluid to be cooled, producing as an effect the perception of \u2018cold emission\u2019. The freon then carries the heat removed from the ambient to the warm heat exchanger<\/strong>, called condenser<\/strong>, dissipating the energy on the outdoor and thus emitting heat.<\/p>\n