Our Mission:
To make it easy for UK households to decarbonise.
How?
Taking the world’s most common air-con units and adapting for quick installation.
Bringing low cost heating to our homes
About us
We are an engineering firm working on reducing the installation cost of air-to-air heat pumps for domestic installations.
We are doing this with small design changes resulting in far less time needed on site.
Our mission is to make heart pumps accessible across the whole of the UK including to private renters.
We hope to also provide air-to-water heat pumps on a similar basis in the future.
What is a heat pump?
They are similar to air conditioning, but can also heat your home at lower running costs than electric heaters.
By moving heat instead of trying to create it, heat pumps are more than 100% efficient – normally 300-400% !
An air source heat pump pulls heat from the outside, and moves it into your home, or vice versa for those unbearable heat waves.
A common myth is that they don’t work below freezing- this is false, but their efficiency does drop a little (though still not below 100%)
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Heat pumps are 300-400% efficient depending on variables like outdoor temperature and heating/cooling mode.
Our model uses 1KW of power to produce 3.6KW of heat.
We are working on a detailed efficiency graph to provide you with exact figures.
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When a gas gets quickly compressed (squeezed), it heats up considerably, before becoming a hot liquid.
So this hot liquid is produced outside your home, it’s then pumped into the indoor unit where the heat is blown into your home.
Now the cool liquid is pumped back outside through an expansion valve. This causes it to evaporate and dramatically loose heat.
Now the cold gas is sent to absorb heat from outside, where it becomes a warm gas (~0-20 deg.C.)
Finally the process repeats. For cooling, it is run in reverse
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An A-A system serves a single room, whereas an A-W system either replaces or works with your boiler.
An A-W system has more installation requirements and can’t be put just anywhere unlike an A-A. Additionally, an A-W system can’t provide instant heating or cooling, but are designed to stay on for most of the day. If you currently have an electric boiler, A-W’s are in instant upgrade in terms of running costs, but if you have a gas boiler it might not necessarily be cheaper to run.
Why spend extra on our heat pump?
Our system comes pre-assembled, allowing any builder or keen DIYer to install them
Contact us.
admin@cambridgeopenengineering.com