Seminar 18 -- Thermally Driven Devices Are Heating Up: Emerging International Field Studies and Standards for Residential Fuel-Fired Sorption Heat Pumps

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As current natural gas heating units approach their efficiency limits, what will be next? Sorption systems (including absorption and adsorption) can provide gas heating efficiencies well above 100% by extracting heat from the ambient. They are rapidly expanding into water and space heating systems, especially in Europe. The IEA Annex 43 has the goal to widen use of fuel driven heat pumps, and in this seminar, member countries report on recent field studies and development of international rating standards that can help sorption technologies accelerate their rapid expansion into residential and commercial space and water heating markets.

• Practical Experience of Field Testing Residential and Light Commercial Gas Absorption Heat Pumps
  Axel Albers, Dipl-Ing., Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH, Wernau, Germany
  
• Field Testing of Residential Gas Absorption Storage Water Heaters
  Paul Glanville, P.E., Associate Member, Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, IL
  
• Existing and Emerging International Standards for Evaluation of Fuel-Fired Sorption Heat Pumps
  Ivan Malenkovic, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany
  
• Multi-Laboratory Round-Robin Testing of Commercialized Sorption Heat Pumps for Residential Space Heating
  Patrizia Melograno, Ph.D., Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Run Time: 90 mins.