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How does a heat pump work?
How does a heat pump work?

How does a heat pump work?

In order to use the heat from the surroundings, the pumps available on the market require only a small electrical power. Today we will tell you about how a typical heat pump works and where it obtains its energy source. Welcome!

The heat pump is designed in such a way that, thanks to the use of appropriate thermodynamic processes, it is able to transform our primary energy and deliver it to the heating installation in accordance with the user's needs. This process requires additional power, most often with the electric current mentioned above.

In practice, we use free energy from land, water or air, paying only for its transport (by paying electricity bills). It is worth mentioning that the heat pump can also be powered by gas.

How does heat pump heating work?

The working medium is a mixture of liquid and gas that first goes to our evaporator. There, however, the evaporation process takes place. At this point, energy is received from the ground source, which is ground, air or water.

In the further course, our refrigerant is sucked as vapor to the compressor, which increases its pressure and temperature. In the next stage, it goes in gaseous form to the condenser, which transfers the energy obtained to the upper source (for example, to the floor heating). At this point, condensation occurs.

The last element that closes the work cycle is the expansion valve, which reduces the pressure and temperature of the working medium. At the very end it goes back to the ground again and recovers the lost energy.

What water temperature will we get with the heat pump?

The heat pump will supply our house with water at a temperature of 55 degrees, thanks to which we will obtain ideal conditions, adapted to low-temperature installations, which will be provided by surface heating (wall heating by default, but also floor and ceiling).

The above information describes in a descriptive way how the pump works and what water temperature we get thanks to its operation.

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