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摘要

Heat pumps have experienced a continuous rise in popularity within both commercial and domestic properties, owing to the environmental and economic advantages they can have over alternative heating methods. To gain the most from a heat pump system it is vital to understand the various benefits each type of heat pump entails and in which situation these are best suited. The technicaltheory behind modern heat pumps has been around for a number of decades, being used across Europe where geothermal power was harnessed to pump warm air into cold places. Taking the science behind refrigeration and applying it to produce the opposite effect of heating, Robert C Webber is credited with developing the first ground source heat pump in the late 1940s.