Proceedings: Meeting customer needs with heat pumps, 1991

Conference · Tue Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6794095

Electric heat pumps provide a growing number of residential and commercial customers with space heating and cooling as well as humidity control and water heating. Industrial customers use heat pump technology for energy-efficient, economical process heating and cooling. Heat pumps help utilities meet environmental protection needs and satisfy their load-shape objectives. The 1991 conference was held in Dallas on October 15--18, featuring 60 speakers representing electric utilities, consulting organizations, sponsoring organizations, and heat pump manufacturers. The speakers presented the latest information about heat pump markets, technologies, applications, trade ally programs, and relevant issues. Participants engaged in detailed discussions in breakout'' and parallel sessions and viewed more than 30 exhibits of heat pumps, software, and other products and services supporting heat pump installations and service. Electric utilities have the greatest vested interest in the sale of electric heat pumps and thus have responsibility to ensure quality installations through well-trained technicians, authoritative and accurate technical information, and wellinformed design professionals. The electric heat pump is an excellent tool for the electric utility industry's response to environmental and efficiency challenges as well as to competition from other fuel sources. Manufacturers are continually introducing new products and making research results available to meet these challenges. Industrial process heat pumps offer customers the ability to supply heat to process at a lower cost than heat supplied by primary-fuel-fired boilers. From the utility perspective these heat pumps offer an opportunity for a new electric year-round application.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Policy Research Associates, Inc., Reston, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: EPRI; Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6794095
• Report Number(s): EPRI-TR-101944; CONF-911080--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320106* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Building Equipment-- (1987-)
320303 -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Industrial & Agricultural Processes-- Equipment & Processes
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990100 -- Management
ABSTRACTS
AIR CONDITIONING
COMMERCIAL SECTOR
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY
ENERGY CONSERVATION
FLUIDS
HEAT
HEAT PUMPS
HEATING
LEADING ABSTRACT
MARKETING
MEETINGS
PLANNING
PROCESS HEAT
REFRIGERANTS
RESIDENTIAL SECTOR
SPACE HEATING
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
WATER HEATING
WORKING FLUIDS