The Facts
• Air/water heat pumps extract heat from the ambient air, even with temperatures as low as -5’C they can achieve flow temperatures of 50’C.
• Collectors do not need to be buried and bore holes do not need to be drilled – so no expensive groundwork.
• There are two mains types of Air source heat pumps, a stand alone outdoor unit which you connect 22mm heating water pipes to or a split type, where a system boiler type unit is installed indoors with a condensing unit outdoors and refrigerant pipe work between the two units, this refrigerant pipes can be run up to 40m away from the indoor unit.
• More and more Air source heat pumps units are becoming available, as air/water heat pumps represent an important renewable energy technology for the future. The UK enjoys a relatively mild winter climate and therefore air to water heat pumps can be considered for all the heating and hot water needs.