About Your Heat Pump; Principles Of Function - Thermia Atria User Manual

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About your heat pump

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Principles of function

A heat pump utilises the free energy from the sun and that is also found
in a natural heat source, such as rock, ground, ground water or air. The
heat pump can be compared to a reversed refrigerator; in a refrigerator
heat is transferred from the inside of the refrigerator to the outside,
whereas in a heat pump, the solar energy that is stored in a heat source
is transferred to the inside of the house. The heat pump uses the solar
energy in the heat source and gives back two to three times more heat
energy than it uses in electrical energy. The heat pump is, therefore, a
very environmentally friendly and economical way of heating a house.
Figure 1.
free solar energy
In order for the heat pump to be able to retrieve heating energy from the
heat source and transfer it to the heating system of the house, three
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