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Why should a heat pump receive low return temperature?
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[QUOTE="Averagesupernova, post: 5455875, member: 7949"] A person can keep this sort of thing straight in their head if they think about it in the manner in which it is named after. Absorption refrigeration. Keep in mind that heat only travels from hot to cold so in order to make it go the other way we manipulate the state of the refrigerant to make part of the loop colder than the reservoir we wish to cool and allow heat to [B][I]absorb[/I][/B] into the refrigerant which is then carried away and made hotter than the reservoir we wish to dump the heat into. For a long time I thought that [B][I]evaporative[/I][/B] refrigeration was what a plain old refrigerator or heat pump was assuming it was called that since we evaporate the refrigerant in part of the cycle but of course I was wrong and this is not the case. :smile: [/QUOTE]
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