Handbook 2000: Systems and equipment. Chapter 8 - Applied heat pump and heat recovery systems. (9 of 49)

Publication Year

2000

Document Status

Withdrawn

Abstract

A heat pump extracts heat from a source and transfers it to a sink at a higher temperature. Though all pieces of refrigeration equipment, including air conditioners and chillers with refrigeration cycles, are heat pumps, in engineering, however, the term heat pump is generally reserved for equipment that heats for beneficial purposes, rather than that which removes heat for cooling only. Dual-mode heat pumps alternately provide heating or cooling.

Document History

This document is part of a larger document, Handbook 2000: Systems and equipment, which has been split into parts for ease of use.

ISBN

9781883413811

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