Recently, many inquisitive Western Maryland residents have asked Total Comfort Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. about geothermal. Sure, geothermal heat pumps use the earth to condition your home... but how do they do it?
This amazing system works thanks to one simple principle: Given the opportunity, heat will always move into a cooler area. That's why an ice cube melts and it's what makes a geothermal heat pump possible. Here's how geothermal works
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A geothermal system doesn't create heat through combustion. It simply collects and moves it using the principle stated above. In order to
carry heat energy from one major component of the system to another, a special liquid called refrigerant is used. The refrigerant is circulated throughout the system by a powerful centrifugal pump called a compressor.
During the winter, heat from the earth is absorbed into the loop water and carried up to the coaxial coil. Again, the inner tube of the
coil contains water from the loop while the outer tube contains cold refrigerant. The loop water passes its warmth through the walls of the coil and
heats the refrigerant. The refrigerant carries that heat into the compressor where it’s put under an immense degree of pressure - making it
exceedingly hot.
To cool your home, the system literally reverses the entire process using a reversing valve. Refrigerant flows in the opposite direction and order of components.
Total Comfort Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. hopes this information has been helpful in your decision to install an energy-saving geothermal system. We install one of the most efficient geothermal heat pumps on the market; WaterFurnace. We serve all of Western Maryland and the surrounding areas. Contact us today.