HOME ABOUT HEATING AIR CONDITIONING PLUMBING SPECIALS BLOG CONTACT Columbia 573.445.4489 Jefferson City 573.635.5099 Heat Pumps Can a heat pump save you money? They affordably and efficiently cool AND heat your home. A heat pump from Chapman Heating and Cooling will effectively replace your air conditioner and furnace. Your traditional furnace will only run when it gets reeeeeeally cold. Like, Minnesota cold. Otherwise, your heat pump works both ways and keeps your energy bills looooooooow. IT STARTS WITH A FREE COMFORT ASSESSMENT Before we can recommend a system that will make you most comfortable, we have to assess your home and your family’s unique needs and situation. It will take us about an hour, then we can quickly and clearly show you an estimate of what will best suit you. Would you like to go ahead and set up your free in-home assessment? HOW HEAT PUMPS WORK A heat pump is a device that uses a small amount of energy to move heat from one location to another. Heat pumps are usually used to pull heat out of the air or ground to heat a home or office building, or they can be switched into reverse to cool a building. If you know how an air conditioner works, you already know a lot about how a heat pump works, because heat pumps and air conditioners operate in very similar ways. Heat pumps are a unique kind of heating system, because they can do the work of both a furnace and an air conditioner. Thus, there’s no need to install separate systems to heat and cool your home. Heat pumps can also work extremely efficiently, because they simply transfer heat, rather than burn fuel to create it. HEAT TRANSFER AND AIR-SOURCE HEAT PUMPS There are many different kinds of heat pumps, but they all operate on the same basic principle of heat transfer. Heat transfer means that rather than burning fuel to create heat, a device moves heat from one place to another. Heat naturally flows downhill, which means that it tends to move from a location with a high temperature to a location with a lower temperature. A heat pump uses a small amount of energy to switch that process into reverse, pulling heat out of a relatively low-temperature area and pumping it into a higher temperature area. In a heat pump, this heat is transferred from a heat source (e.g. the ground or air) into a heat sink (e.g. your home). One of the most common types of heat pumps is the air-source heat pump, which takes heat from the air outside your home and pumps it inside through refrigerant-filled coils. Inside this basic heat pump, you’ll find two fans, refrigerator coils, a reversing valve and a compressor. This system is more commonly known as an air-air heat pump, because it takes heat from outdoor air and transfers it to indoor air ducts. With the proper modification, air-source systems can also work with other types of indoor heating systems. THE REVERSING VALVE The reversing valve is a very versatile part of a heat pump. It reverses the flow of the refrigerant, so that the system begins to operate in the opposite direction. Instead of pumping heat inside your home, the heat pump releases it, just like an air conditioner. The refrigerant now absorbs heat on the indoor side of the unit and flows to the outside, where the heat is released and the refrigerant cools and flows back indoors to pick up more heat. After 60 years of keeping our word, we feel safe to guarantee your satisfaction. It ends with that: your complete comfort and happiness. WANT TO SET UP YOUR FREE IN-HOME ASSESSMENT? 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