Yes, you can, but you will probably have to design and fabricate it yourself as I am not aware of any commercially available kits to help you accomplish this task. What you are asking for is not unreasonable. It makes perfect sense to use the heat that is extracted from your house to heat the pool water rather than just exhaust it to the outside air. However, only recently have the major HVAC manufacturers started thinking about their systems in an integrated fashion, i.e. figuring out ways to move heat from the places its not wanted to the places where its needed ALL WITHIN ONE SYSTEM. At this point in time, there is no real standardization of heat pump components that would allow you to simply and easily take the heat from the heat pump and transfer it to another heat exchanger to warm the pool water because there are so many different types of heat pumps that have been manufactured over the past 20-40 years. Thus, even if someone did develop a kit of this sort, it would still require some kind of custom-built piping and control mechanism to interface with all of the different manufacturers and models of heat pumps that are out there in the world. Hope this helps ... from Jalex137: It's an interesting idea, but I wonder if it's practical. It seems to me that during the season that you would be cooling your house, you wouldn't need to be heating the pool. from Uncledunc: the reason you heat the pool water in the summer is the difference in the temperature between the air and pool water. On a 75 degree day, your pool water at 67-68 degrees fees fine. But if tomorrow the afternoon temperature shoots up to 90 you turn blue and FREEZE. Living in So-Cal tells one all he needs to know about heating the pool (often with solar covers during the day, plus the heater) to enjoy swimming on hot summer (and Fall) days. Keeping the air to water temperature within about 10 degrees (max) is ideal, from my experience with 4 in-ground pools. My father-in-law attempted the AC heats pool water trick back in the late '60's but the contraption he came up with had no controls - just a big water tank with SS piping for the Freon gas. Later he attempted to upgrade the idea with a switching mechanism to route the refrigerant to the normal condensing coils when the pool water was already hot enough. Bottom line - the hardest part is sizing the heat exchanger to the thermal load of the house (cu. ft. / not sq. ft.) and the gallonage of the pool for your typical summer ambient temperature (and nighttime temperature swings) in your local. There is no "1-size-fits-all" answer. And it takes some decent thermodynamic engineering to get it right. IMHO, the concept is feasible, but the trick is to over-size the heat exchanger and then TRY to locate a suppler of a high pressure switch to shut off the pool's heat exchanger. Otherwise you run the risk of have your pool turn into a sauna/spa... which some folks might actually prefer! But, if nothing else, in northern climates you'll get a longer swimming season without turning on the heater. Hope this adds to the discussion. - Uncledunc

Answer . \nYes there is an optimum flow rate. Kind of! The heat pump manufacturer will post on the internet or in the users guide what the maximum and mimimum flow rate through his heat pump should be. I take it that the optimum then, is anywhere within that range. My pump manufacturer prescribes 20 GPM to 70 GPM for the heat pump I will be using. Too low a flow causes the heat pump to overheat. Too high a flow is hard on system components.\ndburr

A heat pump is a heating system that applies the principle of refrigeraation to heating homes. These principles are: 1. when a gas is quickly compressed, it's temperature rises; 2. when a gas is allowed to expand suddenly it's temperature fallls; 3. when a liquid evaporates, it absorbs heat; and 4. when a gas condenses it releases heat.

Heat Transfer is the study of how heat flows through objects. Any object that has temperature wants to dissipate it into surrounding objects and to colder objects. If the surrounding objects or air is at the same temperature, then heat will not flow. Some materials conduct heat more than others. Heat can be transferred into flowing gases and air.. There is no such thing as cold flow. Rather it the flow of heat such that it cools one area and moves it to another area where it is dissipated.

a heat pump contains a water filled loop of pipe that is buried toa depth where the temperature is nearly constant

A Heat pump is a air conditioning/heating system that utilizes a reversing valve in the refrigerant circut that reverses the flow, and brings the heat in side the home from outdoors

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Geothermal (ground source) heating systems are a very rapidly growing technology in the residential / commercial heating and cooling market. Even though it does cost a little bit more in the beginning to install rather than traditional HVAC system it repays itself quickly because of its low maintenance cost. Ground source heat pumps can be applied to a wide range of both domestic and commercial applications, ranging from heating a small residential property with a swimming pool to heating and cooling a large commercial building like a hotel. True

Yes, as part of a Dual Fuel system. If your electric rates are more favorable than fossil fuel rates.

The answer is: it depends. Local codes in metro areas might restrict you from doing that, so its best to check with a building official in your area first.

The flow of heat energy from the warmerobject to the cooler one is so probable that it is considered a law in thermodynamics.

A heat pump can be used all year round. They extract heat from the air even in cold weather.

well im a hcac student and from what i know from heat pumps if its cold out side and you turn ur heatpump to heat it sends the cold air out side. if it runs too long the outside coil will start to freeze over, there is a thermometer out side that notices this change and will send the system into a defrost cycle, which all that is is the reversing valve slide kicks over and reverces the flow of frion which sends the heat to the outside coil to dethaw the outside coil. while this is happening the air coming out of the registers will blow cold air, this is when ur augzilery heat which is ur 1rs bank of heat in ur air handiler turns on so you don't have cold air coming out of ur registers. hope this helps. from what it sounds like ur system is going into defrost cycle and ur augzilery heat isn't coming on.

A heat pump is an air conditioner working in reverse. When the unit is in cooling mode, it moves heat from the interior to the exterior. When the unit is in heat mode, it moves heat from the exterior to the interior. In most cases, the thermostat controls the necessary components that perform the reversing process necessary to change from heating mode to cooling mode.

First the heat below the mantle makes even the solid part of themantle flow very slowly as though it were very thick liquid. thehot rising part of the mantle cools as it nears the crust. as thecooling mantle moves sideways it drags along the plate floating ontop of it. the arrows show the cooled mantle sinking back down.later on the mantle will may be get warm and rise again.

Condensers with a heat pump option have a Reversing Valve. They seldom need replacing, but in the event that they are bad... they are very difficult to braise in the system.

BTU/hr . A British Thermal Unit is: 1. The quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water from 60° to 61°F at a constant pressure of one atmosphere.. 2. The quantity of heat equal to 1 / 180 of the heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water from 32° to 212°F at a constant pressure of one atmosphere..

There are some special rules associated with heat transfer . The first is there is no such thing as cooling, .. removal of heat is a relative cooling process from the initial temperature's difference of beginning and ending temp is the relative change. the second is rigidity in expansion ...If not controlled the process can create failures in post stress reactions . (after it is heating up).. the third is coefficient of utilizati on ..based on area material and temp differential After going through all that the best cooling cooling/heating exchanger is one that gives optimal radiation through utilization of air flow within the limits of the temperature applied. A special design for every application is generally applied in an engineering application. Air conditioning systems have opted for two basic styles the slanted multipass and the A-coil both are implied surface area improver's.

Heat pumps are an economical way to provide clean heating AND cooling of a home.

The easiest way to build a tree house with heating and cooling, is to build the tree house completely sealed, (By building the structure really tightly and then coating it with something that's air proof.) and then get the tree-house access to electricity and an air-conditioner. If you cannot do that, than build it in a high place and keep it shut in the winter and open in the summer.

An air heat pump is used to heat and cool your home. It is like an air conditioner in the warmer months but then can also heat your home if the outside temperature is above freezing.

Imagine a window AC unit installed backwards, rejecting heat indoors while air conditioning the world, this is a heat pumps heat mode. As the unit is air conditioning in the cool outdoors eventually the outdoor coil will ice up requiring a defrost cycle, defrost is the AC mode except the outdoor fans off to assist with the defrosting. A defrost cycle is time and temperature initiated, time or temperature terminated.

A heat pump is often used in air conditioning units and refrigerators because a heat pump is used to transfer heat from one place to another. Often heat pumps are used to remove heat from a building

The refrigerant is pumped round the system, one way or the other. The warm side is the high-pressure side on one side of the nozzle.

Ductless heat pumps operate in the same way as regular heat pumps. However it is easier to install for quality heating and cooling that works quietly with no extra noise.

The most notable fan used for both heating and cooling would probably be of the Dyson brand. They have a product called the Dyson Hot+Cold, which is a bladeless heater fan used for both cooling and heating.

Haeting and cooling round buildings depends on the system and howit performs. Heating and cooling systems are not any easier toinstall in round buildings but are able to keep the environmentcool or warm.

"Freon" is a trademark name of the the DuPont Corporation for aseries of CFC and HFC refrigerants manufactured and marketed bythem - thus, it's only actually Freon if it's manufactured by themand marketed by that name. They all use some form of refrigerant, but not all of them use CFCor HFC refrigerants. There are refrigeration units which usestraight ammonia, for example.

I suspect the right answer would be a fluid: liquid or gas. Wateris simply an example. The question is so tangles it's not easy tounderstand what its writer wishes to know, but appears to citeconvection currents.

A heat pump generally has a max temperature change of 20 degrees F.If air entering the return duct is 90, it will not be cooler than70 on the discharge side, Below 60, it is working against theinsulation and air infiltration into the house. It is an airconditioner, not a deep freeze. Remember that a heat pump eitherdumps heat outside to cool a house, or picks up heat from outsideto heat the house. If it is 100 degrees outside, it is hard to dumpheat. Below 35, it is hard to pick up heat. At an outside temp of59 degrees, it should work for either- but nobody needs coolingwhen it is 59 degrees outside. Open a window, already!.