Issue 11, 2012
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Energy & Environmental Science

A review of domestic heat pumps

Iain Staffell,*a   Dan Brett,b   Nigel Brandonc  and  Adam Hawkesd  

* Corresponding authors

a Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, London, UK
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b The Centre for CO2 Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL, London, UK
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c The Energy Futures Lab, Imperial College London, London, UK
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d Centre for Energy Policy and Technology, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Abstract

Heat pumps are a promising technology for heating (and cooling) domestic buildings that provide exceptionally high efficiencies compared with fossil fuel combustion. There are in the region of a billion heat pumps in use world-wide, but despite their maturity they are a relatively new technology to many regions. This article gives an overview of the state-of-the-art technologies and the practical issues faced when installing and operating them. It focuses on the performance obtained in real-world operation, surveying the published efficiency figures for hundreds of air source and ground source heat pumps (ASHP and GSHP), and presenting a method to relate these to results from recent UK and German field trials. It also covers commercial aspects of the technologies, the typical savings in primary energy usage, carbon dioxide emissions abatement that can be realised, and wider implications of their uptake.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2EE22653G
Article type
Review Article
Submitted
10 Mar 2012
Accepted
20 Sep 2012
First published
21 Sep 2012

Energy Environ. Sci., 2012,5, 9291-9306

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