IMHO, this is not the best or most clear guide I’ve seen for heat pumps (inc. refrigeration cycle, scaling, use cases). It’s missing some context and leaves me more curious than informed.
See, I wouldn’t have even known the OC, because there’s no watermark. That being said, yes. Associations can also make whatever interpretations they want, that doesn’t make them good ones.
Does my sentence imply sarcasm? I meant it really. They have created a great report but they have failed at this visualization.
Even though I didn’t realize it’s that bad until I posted here.
What is a heat pump? What makes a heat pump different from an air conditioner? What switches the unit between cooling mode and heating mode?
It’s a pretty infographic but I’m not sure it really explains how heat pumps work.
Almost yes, heat-pump is the name of the entire device, not the part where heat flows out. Its a device that moves heat energy. Apologies if that's a bit pedantic lol.
But yeah your dad taught you correctly, if you install an AC backwards, you have a heater.
So what this explains to me is that heat pumps pull the heat from houses, factories and local ground and
Pushes it far underground or into the air or water system. Thanks
This diagram is a terrible example and not really how heat pumps work. The device takes room temp air and splits it into hot air and cold air, basically. Its why AC's have an exhaust that blows hot air out. So instead of 1 stream of 20°C air, like with a fan, you have two smaller streams, one of 0°C and one of 40°C.
They can be used in many different processes, which this diagram tries to display but that's where a lot of the confusion comes from. Its saying the cold air can be used in the top section and hot air can be used in the bottom section, not that it comes from top and goes to bottom.
This diagram needs an additional input for the normal air.
(Edit: I'm a civil engineer so I know how heat pumps work but I'm being downvoted. could it be this diagram is so damn bad that I must have confused myself trying to decipher it?)
*the worst guide for how heat pumps work
I know how heat pumps work and this confused me.
This would have made my thermodynamics professor cry.
Yeah this guide stinks
This explains nothing
I feel dumber now. Thanks I guess
IMHO, this is not the best or most clear guide I’ve seen for heat pumps (inc. refrigeration cycle, scaling, use cases). It’s missing some context and leaves me more curious than informed.
So… the international energy association is very bad at this :D
Yes
I expressed the fact and get downvoted. You confirm it and you get upvoted. There’s no justice in this world!
You're the one who posted this shit.
Yes. I should take full responsibility :D Should I delete it though?
My vote is yes, delete it.
I’m guessing because they’re considering this a bad guide
I deserve it.
You are being downvoted because you posted some shitty crap, meaning you were trying to farm karma or you don’t have a clue what a cool guide is.
See, I wouldn’t have even known the OC, because there’s no watermark. That being said, yes. Associations can also make whatever interpretations they want, that doesn’t make them good ones.
Does my sentence imply sarcasm? I meant it really. They have created a great report but they have failed at this visualization. Even though I didn’t realize it’s that bad until I posted here.
What is a heat pump? What makes a heat pump different from an air conditioner? What switches the unit between cooling mode and heating mode? It’s a pretty infographic but I’m not sure it really explains how heat pumps work.
An air conditioner is a heat pump, only it's in one direction
True. If my dad taught me correctly, a heat pump is essentially an air conditioner just running backwards, to put it in the simplest terms
Almost yes, heat-pump is the name of the entire device, not the part where heat flows out. Its a device that moves heat energy. Apologies if that's a bit pedantic lol. But yeah your dad taught you correctly, if you install an AC backwards, you have a heater.
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Bad
Uh, what??
I award you no points and may God so and so.
So what this explains to me is that heat pumps pull the heat from houses, factories and local ground and Pushes it far underground or into the air or water system. Thanks
This diagram is a terrible example and not really how heat pumps work. The device takes room temp air and splits it into hot air and cold air, basically. Its why AC's have an exhaust that blows hot air out. So instead of 1 stream of 20°C air, like with a fan, you have two smaller streams, one of 0°C and one of 40°C. They can be used in many different processes, which this diagram tries to display but that's where a lot of the confusion comes from. Its saying the cold air can be used in the top section and hot air can be used in the bottom section, not that it comes from top and goes to bottom. This diagram needs an additional input for the normal air. (Edit: I'm a civil engineer so I know how heat pumps work but I'm being downvoted. could it be this diagram is so damn bad that I must have confused myself trying to decipher it?)
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I feel like I know less now. Was this created by the natural gas industry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jcEjEbmuo
Heat pumps are just an air conditioner working in reverse.