HEAT PUMPS
Heat Pumps - A great choice for home heating
The heat pump is the best choice for heating your home. Heat pump heating is relatively new for residential heating applications but as a renewable energy technology it is ideally suited for our region where winters are relatively mild.
The heat pump is the most practical and economical way to keep your home warm and comfortable. With your new heat pump, you'll be able to maintain the desired comfort level in your home while saving on your monthly energy bill. Heat pumps are highly energy efficient and cost less to run than other conventional heating systems such as oil or gas. Heat pumps can save you a lot of money on utilities if you install the right kind of pump for your area.
Heat pumps offer numerous advantages as a heating solution.
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• The same systems used to cool can also be used to heat, resulting in less initial investment and simplicity in operation and maintenance.
- • Heat pumps also have an important advantage in the area of efficiency. Unlike fossil-fuel based heating systems, heat pumps extract available heat from the outside air.
- • Heat pumps offer efficiency gains on the order of 3:1 and higher, compared to electrical heating. Thus for every unit of energy consumed by the heat pump, three or more units of heat are gained.
Heat pumps - The Basic Principle
As with many technologies that we use in every-day life, the basic principles of how a heat pump works are simple. All our surroundings,
even a block of ice, have heat. The purpose of a heat pump is to absorb heat in one place where it is plentiful, then to transport and
release it in another location where it can be used for space and hot water heating.
There are many different kinds of heat pumps, but they all operate on the same basic principle of heat transfer. Heat transfer means that rather than burning fuel to
create the heat, a device such as a pump from our range of award winning heating pumps moves heat from one place to another. Heat naturally moves from a location with a high
temperature to a location with a lower temperature. A heat pump uses a small amount of energy to switch that process into reverse, pulling heat out of a relatively
low-temperature area, and pumping it into a higher temperature area. In a heat pump, this heat is transferred from a heat source (e.g. the ground or air) into a
heat sink (e.g. your home). What’s more, it is free. All we have to pay for is the machine to recover it and the cost of the energy to run the machine.
Both air source heat Pumps and ground heat pumps can extract heat energy from the outside air or ground even on the coldest days of winter.
 
Air source heat pumps – Air heat pumps also known as ‘Air to water heat pumps’:
Air source Heat pumps = Using air conditioners to heat
Heat pumps are an integral part of air conditioning technology. Heat pumps transfer heat from one environment to another via refrigerant
- takes heat from the air outside your home and pumps it inside through refrigerant-filled coils. Inside this basic heat pump, you'll find two
fans, refrigerator coils, a reversing valve and a compressor. - This heat can then be used to warm water for radiators o underfloor heating
systems depending on the type of central heating distribution set up in your property. Hot water is can also be supplied to the hot water
storage cylinder for your families hot water needs. Some models of our air source heat pumps also allow this process to be reversed.
Providing cooling of the home. This offers even higher efficiency figures when taken in combination of heating and cooling with commercial
applications benefiting most from this form of combined renewable energy. Our range of air source heat pumps are from two top
manufacturers and further detail on these eco house – green technology systems are available by clicking on the link below:
Click here for details of heat pumps from: • Waterkotte
• Mitsubishi
Ground-source heat pumps – Ground heat pump also called water to water heat pumps.
Ground-source heat pumps absorb heat from the ground or an underground body of water and transfer it indoors. The most common type of ground-source heat pump
transfers heat directly from the ground by absorbing it through buried pipes filled with water or a refrigerant. The process is similar to the air source but the
external environment the Heat energy is extracted from in a ground heat pump is a series of closed pipe loops buried horizontally in trenches or in vertical
boreholes that are connected back to the heat pump unit. If underground water is available - this energy can be used in the same way as soil-energy or ground
source, but the groundwater is extracted from one borehole and re-injected into a second borehole after the heat pump has transferred the heat into your home.
This is called an ‘open loop’ system. Primarily for new build properties the year round stable temperatures found in the ground are ideal for heat pumps and
the efficiency of the heat pump remains high when the weather is coldest and the heat requirements of your home are greatest.
Retro fitting of geothermal heat pumps is possible in certain situations and our site survey can assess the heating pumps from our range or renewable
energy technology that best meet your family’s needs and your properties constraints.
• Waterkotte
SEAI
All our quality efficient product lines are installed to the highest standard by SEAI approved installers under the 'Better energy homes Scheme'.
We also supply all relevant SEI documentation required to
avail of grant assistance under Better energy Homes Scheme. Assistance with the grant application process is also available.
Having a heat pump in your home will improve your overall BER energy rating for the property.
See our Grant information page for more details.
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