Your phone rings at 7:00 a.m. in January. The homeowner says their heat pump quit, and the house is freezing. When you pull up, there's ice everywhere on the outdoor unit — a solid block covering the ...

As we head into the colder months, HVACR technicians need to understand the fundamentals of defrost control board operation. While there are many types of defrost control boards on the market, they ...

UK-based researchers have developed a novel method to estimate the amount of defrost cycles a heat pump will experience in the winter and how much energy it would require to implement the cycles. The ...

Heat pumps are increasingly popular among homeowners seeking energy-efficient heating and cooling solutions. Unlike traditional HVAC systems that generate heat by burning fuel or resistive heating, ...

This article was originally featured in Knowable. It was an engineering problem that had bugged Zhibin Yu for years — but now he had the perfect chance to fix it. Stuck at home during the first UK ...

Heat pumps function similarly to refrigerators or air conditioners, which take warm air from one space and send it to another. In the winter, a heat pump transfers heat from the outdoors inside and, ...

Heat pumps are emerging as an efficient solution for space heating and air conditioning, especially when used in variable refrigerant flow systems. They can match the most efficient air conditioning ...