{"id":39058,"date":"2022-12-26T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39058"},"modified":"2022-12-26T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T00:29:08","slug":"us-companies-are-producing-heat-pumps-that-work-below-20f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39058","title":{"rendered":"US companies are producing heat pumps that work below -20F"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heating and cooling equipment multinational Johnson Controls<\/a> has developed an air source heat pump prototype that can operate in temperatures below -20F (-29C) as part of the US Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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DOE launched this challenge because, according to the program\u2019s fact sheet<\/a>, \u201cadditional efforts are needed to address common technical and market barriers to wider adoption by consumers \u2013 which include performance at temperatures of 5F and below, installation challenges, and electricity grid impacts during peak demand periods.\u201d<\/p>\n

DOE is working with manufacturers to lab test cold climate heat pumps\u2019 performance. Field testing will take place over the next couple years, and DOE is aiming for commercialization in 2024.<\/p>\n

Besides Johnson Controls, other manufacturers<\/a> such as Carrier, Trane, and Bosch are also taking part in the challenge. <\/p>\n

Trane successfully completed its lab testing phase required by the heat pump challenge in early November and moved into the field trials phase. Katie Davis, vice president of engineering and technology, Residential HVAC, Trane Technologies, told Contracting Business<\/em><\/a> in December that \u201cthere are no products in the market that currently meet the DOE CCHP Challenge performance specifications.\u201d However, Davis said:<\/p>\n

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When tested at the DOE\u2019s lab, the Oak Ridge National Lab Facility, Trane\u2019s CCHP prototype performed in temperatures as low as -23F, surpassing the mandatory -20F Fahrenheit DOE requirement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There are already units on the market in the United States that work at low temperatures \u2013 just not as low as the Johnson Controls or Trane prototypes. Johnson Controls currently has two residential heat pumps on the US market \u2013 the York YZV<\/a> and York HMH7<\/a> \u2013 that can operate at temperatures as low as 5F (-15C). (Johnson Controls bought York in August 2005.) And Trane\u2019s Platinum XV20i<\/a>\u00a0can operate at temperatures as low as 0F.<\/p>\n

Check out\u00a0this guide from Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about heat pumps.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong> The heat pump market will more than double to $13B in cold climates by 2031<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: York<\/em><\/p>\n

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Heating and cooling equipment multinational Johnson Controls has developed an air source heat pump prototype that can operate in temperatures below -20F (-29C) as part of the US Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge. DOE launched this challenge because, according to the program\u2019s fact sheet, \u201cadditional efforts are needed to address […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}