Idronics

This section discusses several design details that enhance the operation of air-to-water heat pumps. Some help the heat pump operate at high COPs and high EERs. Others improve syst...

This article combines many of the details from previous sections into complete systems. These systems are configured around monobloc as well as split system air-to-water heat pumps...

One of the most important design details for successful application of air-to-water heat pumps is keeping the required load water temperature as low as possible. Low load temperatu...

The use of a hydronic distribution system for heating and cooling creates many possibilities that are not possible with forced-air distribution systems.

What are the advantages of these types of heat pumps?

The market for hydronic heat sources, like many products that use energy to provide a benefit, is shaped by public perception, government policy and economic competition.

The refrigeration cycle is the basis of operation of all vapor-compression heat pumps.

Heat, by nature, always moves from an area of higher temperature to an area of lower temperature. This “natural” heat transfer takes place constantly all around us.