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US startup TerraVis Energy is developing a residential heat pump that it claims can maintain high comfort levels without requiring defrosting. “The system is based on our soon-to-be patented ...

UK-based researchers have developed a novel method to estimate the amount of defrost cycles a heat pump will experience in the winter and how much energy it would require to implement the cycles. The ...

There is no competition at -50°F," said Lorenzo Rossi, CEO of Terravis Energy. "Currently, heat pumps can be extremely inefficient during cold weather, having to rely on supplementary heat sources ...

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In order to service and troubleshoot an air-source heat pump system, a service technician must understand the unit's sequence of operation. This is the order of events the system undergoes to cycle ...

Heat pumps operate by moving heat from lower temperature areas to higher temperature areas. They typically take advantage of an electrically driven compressor and a closed vapor compression cycle.

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