Air-to-air vs. air-to-water heat pump KFW55 house - cooling function important

  • Erstellt am 2023-06-26 14:32:29

KoalasAreCute

2023-07-26 09:50:31
  • #1

Do you mean in summer? I believe every manufacturer does not allow indoor units to have different functions. In fact, we were explicitly told with our air conditioner that heating and cooling cannot run at the same time.
 

jrth2151

2023-07-26 09:58:34
  • #2

Yes, exactly. You already have a heat pump in the house anyway. It can also cool, but it then uses the underfloor heating for that. However, if you had suitable indoor units for it, the same heat pump could also replace the regular air conditioner, and you wouldn't need an additional outdoor unit.
 

sysrun80

2023-07-26 10:03:27
  • #3


Because the heat pump works largely differently:

* In a split air conditioner, the refrigerant is routed through the lines to the indoor unit and there "expands," so simply put, the heat exchanger in the indoor unit is cooled (or also absorbs heat – depending on how you look at it).
* In most heat pumps, this process takes place entirely in the outdoor unit. Only the water-based primary circuit is routed into the house. That is then the heated (or cooled) water, which is usually passed through a buffer tank and possibly a domestic hot water tank.

Thus, normal "fancoils," meaning the indoor units on the wall known from split air conditioners, are basically excluded.
Manufacturers would have to create a way to somehow directly connect the outdoor unit as well. I assume this only makes everything more expensive and complicated.

Here as an example a Bosch/Junkers outdoor unit

 

Alessandro

2023-07-26 10:31:56
  • #4
However, there are also split heat pumps
 

jrth2151

2023-07-26 10:32:18
  • #5

Thanks for the technical explanation! That solves the puzzle.
I also once looked at my Vaillant, and there too the outdoor unit only has water return/supply connections. Maybe we should all start our own business here and bring out the perfect heat pump that conceptually takes exactly this into account.
If you look at the climate, the market for this will definitely come.
 

Ramona13

2023-07-26 10:54:20
  • #6
Panasonic seems to lead two refrigerant circuits away from the outdoor unit of the Aquarea EcoFlex, one to the hydromodule for air/water and one directly to an air/air indoor unit. If I understand the website correctly, the hot water is heated by heat recovery during cooling operation and the outdoor unit cannot really heat and cool simultaneously. But an interesting concept.
 

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