How do heat pumps work

The basic principle of a heat pump is from an air conditioning system which uses a refrigeration system. A refrigeration system transfers heat from one place to another using a refrigerant.

So if you take your fridge at home as an example it absorbs heat with the evaporator (#3 – heat exchanger) and the refrigerant is pumped around to the condenser (#1 – heat exchanger) by a compressor (#4 – pump) in doing this you get cold on the inside and hot around the back of your fridge.

A heat pump uses this technology along with advanced electronic controls and compressors (pumps) that use inverter technology to achieve heat when on the heating cycle and cool air on the cooling cycle.

As it uses a heat exchanger to heat the air there is no form of contamination which provides a very clean heat.

The biggest factor that makes heat pumps so popular is that for every 1 unit of power used to run the heat pumps up to 4 or 5 times the amount of heat can be produced.