Researchers at ETH Zurich design a novel heat pump that will help industry reduce their carbon emissions and become more eco-friendly.
Burning fossil fuels creates greenhouse gas emissions that heat up our planet, and researchers are fighting heat with heat as if the antidote were in the poison.
A heat pump functions similarly to a refrigerator or air conditioner pump. It extracts heat from the air, water, or waste heat from a factory, as the International Energy Association explains. A compressor then moves a refrigerant through a refrigeration cycle, and a heat exchanger extracts the heat.
Interestingly enough, it’s the refrigerant’s chemical composition that dictates the temperature using a computer model that tailors these two ingredients.
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