Three surprises since the advent of heat pump technology

The heat pump technology has been around for hundreds of years. The International Energy Agency has vigorously promoted this technology in recent years. Although China has entered the ranks of the world's largest producer of heat pumps for air conditioners, many people do not know it. Some people only know that can use heat pump refrigeration, but I do not know it can heat. Today, we want to build a conservation-oriented society by leaps and bounds, we must not lack the energy-saving weapon of heat pump technology. What is the heat pump technology? More generally, just as a pump raises water from low to high use, heat pump technology is used to raise a low-temperature heat source to a high-temperature heat source. It is actually a hot "handling" system that heats up large quantities of low-temperature heat to high-temperature heat.
The amazing thing about heat pump technology is that it can make long-term and large-scale use of low-temperature thermal energy in rivers and lakes, urban sewage, industrial wastewater, soil or air. From concentrating a lens to collecting heat to solar water heaters are all ways to elevate low-temperature heat to high-temperature heat, but they are not able to operate on the ground 24 hours a day. Heat pump technology has broken through this limitation by exploiting the use of low-temperature thermal energy that we have abandoned in our production and life.
The amazing thing about heat pump technology is that it is the world's most energy-saving heating system (coal, oil, natural gas, etc.). It can use a small amount of non-renewable energy will heat a lot of low-temperature heat. For example, electric heating consumes 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity and can only provide 1 kilowatt-hour of heat; whereas a typical designed and constructed heat pump system consumes 4 kilowatt-hours of heat when consuming 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity. Some experts have calculated: the same to provide 10 kWh of heat, using resistive heating, you need to consume 34 kWh of primary energy (including 24 kWh of power generation and transmission losses); the use of high-efficiency fuel, gas boilers Heating, if you do not calculate the heat loss of the pipeline, but also consume 29.1 kilowatt hours of primary energy; and use electric heating pump only consumes 2.7 kilowatt hours of energy, plus power generation and transmission losses of 3.3 kilowatt hours, totaling only 6 Kilowatt of primary energy. It can be seen that the primary energy consumed by heat pump technology is only 1/5 or nearly 1/6 of that of the first two types of heating.
The third amazing thing about heat pump technology is that it can be used in reverse under certain conditions, both for heating and for cooling, without having to invest in two devices.

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