Designing a temporary heating system differs considerably from permanent installations. In early construction stages, you might face a tight roof with walls of sheet plastic, or nearly complete walls ...

Heat pumps and other building thermal systems can cut energy use in buildings, but real-world efficiency often falls short due to part-load operation, ...

The building heating load constantly fluctuates depending not only on weather conditions but also the facility’s occupancy rate and internal gains. This often results in oversized boilers that rarely ...

Condensing boilers, while commonly installed for heating hot water applications, often fail to deliver their inherent efficiency advantage because of deficiencies in the system design, start-up, and ...

New research shows that hybrid heat pumps combining an electric heat pump and a gas boiler represent a technically feasible and economically viable solution to partially decarbonize heat supply in ...

A Chinese research team has analyzed the operation and performance of two air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) during the heating season in Shenyang, a city in the cold region of China, in an effort to ...