Heat Pump
B+ES launches updated heat pump guide
26 November 2013 New TR30 guide designed to help building services engineers specify, design and install heat pump systems The Building & Engineering Services Association (B&ES) has upd...
Shuangliang Leading Absorption Heat Pump Technology
Shuangliang is leading energy-saving technologies including advanced and sophisticate absorption heat pump technology in HVAC Industry. Since November 2009, Shuangliang delivered six units of 30 MW st...
Carrier AquaFlow Variable Water Volume System
The innovative Carrier AquaFlow variable water volume (VWV) system leverages leading hydronic and variable refrigerant flow (VRF) technologies to deliver superior indoor comfort and maximum efficiency...
JCI Introduces York YSPA Heat Pump Screw Chiller to China
Johnson Controls (JCI) introduces a new air-cooled heat pump screw chiller, the York YSPA, to China. YSPA delivers the industry’s highest efficiency level and widest temperature range that lowers oper...
2.4.8 Turkey
The OECD forecasts that Turkey’s economy will continue to grow at an annual rate of over 4% up 2014. The outlook for the construction industry remains positive. The chiller market was worth US$ 103 million in 2012 and is expected to grow at an annual rate of over 5% up to 2016. Sales in 2012 were close to 1,900 units. Most of these units are imported. Alarko Carrier is major supplier for al...
Kirin Beverage to Adopt Heat Pump Vending Machines
Kirin Beverage has decided to replace about 240,000 vending machines installed in Japan with highly energy-saving heat pump system units. By collecting waste heat from the vending machine itself, the ...
Shuangliang New Hybrid Absorption Chillers Shipped to Latin
There is no end for Shuangliang to pursue innovation. Based on the existing technology of steam and directfired absorption chiller, two units of 400 USRT absorption chiller shipped to Latin America re...
HVAC Committee Established
On October 9, the founding ceremony for the establishment of HVAC committee and ground-source heat pump committee of China Association of Building Energy Efficiency (CABEE) was held at Shanghai World ...
Energy Efficiency Labeling for ATW Heat Pumps Delayed
Minimum Energy Performance Standard (MEPS) for air-to-water (ATW) heat pump water heaters GB29541- 2013 has been released and formally implemented since October 1, 2013. High energy-consuming products will gradually be phased out. However, due to some reasons, the implementation of energy efficiency label for ATW heat pump water heaters will be delayed to the beginning of 2014. The postponed imple...
Mitsubishi Electric Ecodan Adopted for UK Kingston Heights
The community heating technology behind the eco-friendly Kingston Heights housing development in the United Kingdom is based on an open water-source heat pump system that is tried and tested, and read...
Heat Pumps Do Better
A survey in 2010 of a number of domestic heat pump installations by the UK’s Energy Saving Trust was critical of design and performance, and recommended a series of improvements. Subsequent retesting which has just been completed shows that most of the 30 or so installations have benefited from the modifications which were made. The Trust concludes that close attention to installation design and c...
Heat Recovery Systems in Germany
An analysis of the role of heat recovery systems in energy conservation by the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, a branch of Trier University of Applied Sciences (Germany), gives some idea of the magnitudes involved nation-wide. In 2011, the number of new mechanical ventilation systems installed equated to a fresh air supply rate of 582 million m3/h requiring a heat input of 4,890 GWh. Recycling ex...
