Heat pumps tend to save homeowners a substantial amount of money every year, especially in the winter. Instead of using natural gas to heat your home, heat pumps extract warm air from outside and transfer it into your home or vice versa depending on the season. If you’re interested in adding a heat pump to your home, contact Precision Heating & Air today!
How Does a Heat Pump Work?
Heat pumps offer an energy-efficient way to heat and cool your home. To keep your house warm in the winter and cool in the summer, heat pumps use a small amount of energy to move hot air from one location to another.
In cooling mode, heat pumps operate by removing hot air from your home and releasing it outside. By using refrigerant, heat pumps can absorb heat from your home, cooling it down. Air from your home passes over the evaporator (cooling coil), and heat energy is transferred from the air to the coil. That heat is moved to the outdoor coil (condenser) and then rejected to the outside.
Refrigerant is used in a heat cycle to remove heat from one area and transfer it to another. It is a chemical used in heat pumps as the heat carrier which changes from gas to liquid and back to gas during the refrigeration cycle.
How a Heat Pump Works in Cold Atlanta Weather
In cold weather, heat pumps work by pulling outside air into the compressor where the outside coil function is used as an evaporator and the indoor coil is used as the condenser. In a heat pump system, heat is extracted from the outside air and brought into the house.
Opposite of how heat pumps work in cooling mode, when heating your home, the indoor coil functions as the condenser while the outdoor coil is the evaporator. Air from outside passes over the evaporator, and the heat is transferred from the air to the coil. Heat is then transferred to the indoor coil (condenser) and then into the home.
Types of Heat Pumps
The most commonly used type of heat pump is an air-source heat pump, which extracts air from the outside and brings it into your home. There are three different types of heat pumps, and the main difference is where they collect the heat from.
- Air to air – collects heat from the outside air
- Water source – collects heat from the water
- Geothermal – collects heat from the ground outside
Contact Precision Heating & Air for Your Heat Pump Needs
Even in the coldest winter weather, heat pumps cycle warm outside air into your home. As an energy-efficient way to heat and cool your home, a heat pump is a great way to upgrade your heating system.
Contact the experts at Precision Heating & Air for all your heat pump needs. Whether you need installation, repair, or maintenance, our team can do it all. Give us a call at (770) 758-4552 or fill out our online contact form for more information about heat pumps.
