Within flexible heat pumps we focus on
- Assessment of control strategy influence on heat pump installations to exploit their energy flexibility including the impact on the heat pump performance, the mutual influence of control strategy and design specifications and the interaction of different energy systems in heat pump installations
- Design optimisation and compact heat exchangers for charge reduction of heat pumps with environmentally friendly refrigerants
- Assessment of innovative heat pump technologies (eg high temperature heat pumps for waste heat recovery, absorption cooling with solar energy)
- Testing of energy flexible heat pumps with heat pump hardware-in-the-loop configuration (testing of different control strategies and system configurations)