Air Source Heat Pumps
The need for energy to warm our houses or water keeps increasing every day, and this places a significant demand on the supply of electricity and increases the need for the fossil fuels. To reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and cut down on the use of electricity for heating homes and water, different types of heat pumps were designed as an alternative energy source to get the needed heat.
What is a heat pump? How are they eco heating systems?
Heat from the sun is constantly warming our planet. An air, ground, or water heat pump is an electric eco heating system that absorbs this solar heat either from the air, earth or water. The heat pump then uses a small amount of electricity to compress this heat into a suitably high temperature – ready to be used for space heating and hot water.
How Do Air Source Heat Pumps Work?
Air source heat pumps extract heat from the air outside by the refrigeration system into the heat pump compressor where it is concentrated into a higher temperature that is hot enough to heat the water for the heating and hot water circuits of the house.
Air source heat pump works exactly like the air conditioning unit, but instead of emitting cool or cold air into the house, the heat pump extracts and amplifies the heat in the air outside the home and emits heat.
Air-to-air System
This type of heat pump makes the air warm and circulates it by fans into the home. Air-to-air heat pumps are used for heating the house or keeping the home warm. Meanwhile, they are not made to provide homeowners with hot water.
Air to Water heat pumps we install.
Do ground and air source heat pumps work in the UK?
You may be wondering if heat pumps can work effectively in the UK, taking our cold climate into account. In actual fact, all types of heat pump (water, ground, and air source heat pumps) can absorb heat even in very cold conditions (as low as -20°C). They’re already found in many domestic applications throughout Europe, and in much colder climates than our own. In Sweden alone, 97% of new builds come with a heat pump system, and over 20% of all households already have heat pumps installed as an eco heating system.
Installation of Air Source Heat Pumps
A unit of the heat pump can be fitted on the external wall or made to stand on the floor. It is crucial, however, to install an air source heat pump where there is enough space to guarantee a good flow of air.
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