Geothermal and Air Sourced
Heating and Cooling
Making your land work for you:
As a homeowner, what on your property works as hard as you? With geothermal heating and cooling, we can take the heat energy in the ground below your lawn, garden or field and turn that into the clean energy that heats and or cools your home.
Whole house heat pumps
Most of the heat pumps we install and service are known as whole house heat pumps. Do you have in-floor radiant heating? We have a heat pump for that. Do you have oil or propane fired forced air? We have a heat pump that will keep those fossil fuels in the ground. Do you have a monitor or wood stove and no existing distribution system? Ask us about mini-splits or attic air handlers. However, you heat and cool your home we can install a system that will save you money and reduce your carbon footprint.
How do Heat Pumps Work?
The refrigerant cycle
A big question I get a lot is, “how can my home be 70°F inside when the ground is only 50°F at best?” The fun question back is, how does your refrigerator stay cold inside when it’s surrounded by 70° air all around it? Your heat pump and refrigerator use the exact same components to do the job: compressor, condensing coil, expansion valve, and evaporator coil. Let’s go through the refrigerant cycle starting with the compressor.
The compressor does just as the name implies, it takes low-pressure vapor refrigerant and compresses it into high-pressure vapor refrigerant. As the refrigerant is compressed, its temperature rises. Remember from science class that pressure and temperature are related? What should we do with this heat? If the application is your refrigerator, we simply just let the heat go into your kitchen. If the application is your heat pump, we blow it through your air ducts or absorb it into your hydronic heating system and circulate it through your home.
The area where the refrigerant transfers the heat to your air ducts or hydronic heating system is called the condenser. It gets this name because as the heat dissipates from the refrigerant it “condenses” into a liquid. So now the vapor leaving the compressor and the liquid in the condenser is at the same pressure but in different phases. The cooled liquid refrigerant then passes to the expansion valve.
Now you wonder, what is an expansion valve? Well, the incredibly creative refrigeration nerds gave it this name because it holds back a majority of the liquid refrigerant and creates low pressure on the downstream side. The lucky percentage of liquid refrigerant that is allowed to pass through is able to expand and turn back into a vapor. The refrigerant is now under very low pressure and starts to boil. What does it take to make something boil? HEAT! Most heat pumps today use R-410A refrigerant, R-410A boils at -55 degrees F. At this point, the refrigerant absorbs all the heat the evaporator has to offer and boils into a vapor state. Now we are back to the compressor to start the process over again. Just like “The song that never ends,” it just keeps going on and on, my friend.
Contact
Location
2133 County Rt. 10
Wadhams! NY 12993
Contact Info
boquetthermalsolutions@gmail.com
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