Heat Pump Review

Water Source Heat Pumps are one of the most efficient ways to heat a building because of the way they are able to move heat energy from where it is not needed to where it is needed.

The Water Source Heat Pump works in a similar way to a ground source heat pump, with the main difference that instead of extracting the heat from the ground, the heat is being extracted from a source of water.

An advantage of using a water source heat pump is that water has a much more stable seasonal temperature than air and is therefore more efficient.

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Swimming Pool Heat Pumps work by taking warmth out of the surrounding air by compressing a gas and transferring this heat to the water in the swimming pool.

Pool and spa water circulates through the Swimming Pool Heat Pump the same way as the other heaters, but does not pump any more heat than any other design of pool and spa heater.

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What is a Ground Source Heat Pump

A Ground Source Heat Pump is, as its name suggests, a form of extracting heat from the ground. Basically, the earth acts as a natural source of solar heat storage. The Ground Source Heat Pump is an electrically powered system to extract this stored heat from the earth.

How does a Ground Source Heat Pump work?

A Ground Source Heat Pump works by pumping either water or anti-freeze through holes drilled in the ground. In the winter, the fluid extracts the warmth from the earth to provide heat or hot water for a home. In the summer it can extract warm air from the home into the ground, thus cooling the home.

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A heat pump is arguably the most efficient way of heating up a space such as a room in your home or an office where you work.

Incredibly, even at temperatures that we consider to be cold, there is heat provided, and continualy replenished, by the sun all around us in the air, ground and water. Also, a heat pump is also able to use waste heat sources, such as from cooling equipment and industrial processes.

A heat pumps job is simply to extract this heat. It does this by expending energy (in the form of electricity) to produce more energy (in the form of heat). For instance, a heat pump might need just 100 kWh of power to turn 200 kWh of freely available environmental or waste heat into 300 kWh of heat output.

A heat pump in your home will commonly consist of two main units. Indoors will be the fan unit that pushes out the warm air. Outside will be the condensing unit that extracts the warm air from the immediate environment. This set up is commonly known as a reversible air-to-air heat pump

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