Propane Heat Pump - This is a new one to me

[peakbagger]

New propane heat pump for space, water heating

Italy-based Rhoss has developed a cascaded air-source heat pump that uses propane (R290) as the refrigerant. It can produce between 47.4 kW and 190.5 kW of heat and domestic hot water to a temperature of up to 75 C.

www.pv-magazine.com

Always a different way to "skin the proverbial cat"

 

[EbS-P]

R410a phase out means the switch to flammable refrigerants. Neat thing about this unit was is how you can combine up to four units. I have seen a lot going this route.

Edit these are big commercial units. Starting at roughly 15 tons. Can we just all agree and ditch btus and tons for thermal capacity already

 

[spuldup]

I am in the HVAC industry. The industry is switching to lower GWP refrigerants. Most, if not all, will be slightly flammable. This will be mandatory by next year.

 

[gthomas785]

When I saw the headline at first I thought it was a heat pump that runs on propane, like the old gas refrigerators.
But really using R-290 as a refrigerant is such a no-brainer, for most of the past decade I wished people would put as much energy into safety engineering as they did complaining about the risks. Glad to see some progress being made.

 

[ABMax24]

We've got a deep freeze that uses cyclopentane as the refrigerant, no issues.

I've also worked on large refrigeration units for gas plants that use propane as the working medium, last one was a 2,500hp electric drive compressor. Usually takes a couple truck loads of propane to fill those systems.

 

[woodgeek]

My new fridge, January 22 vintage, uses propane as the refrigerant.