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Heat Exchange/ Heat Return Pumps for water extraction for an non water application

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  • 30-11-2010 5:48pm
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    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Can anyone tell me how heat exchange works?

    I’ve an understanding of the principles behind it and more interested in the technology and application.

    If you have a relatively low heat source compared to the surrounds how does it work?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭Low Energy Eng


    Presumming you mean heat pump,

    Have a think how your fridge works its the exact same, the pump absorbs the heat from inside and dumps it outside

    Basically, you have the inside of the fridge circuit and outside of the fridge circuit

    Outside of the fridge circuit is put under pressure which causes the refrigerant to heat up and dumps the heat externally when it flows back into the fridge it passes through an expansion valve which reduces the pressue on the inside circuit which lets the refrigerant cool down

    If you forget that 0degreesC is cold and think that -100degrees is cold you can see that there is still energy there to absorb heat if you get me


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