Review and Prospects: Application and Research of Heat Pumps in China

Heat pump systems offer economical and environmental way to utilize green energy. But many problems still exist in the development of heat pumps of our country. Summarized the status of different kinds of heat pumps at home and abroad; put forward new classification method of heat pump system and analyzed the merits and demerits of different kinds of heat pumps; pointed out the key problems of the current heat pump system such as low operating efficiency, poor operation management and so on; from the aspects of energy saving, and rational planning and peak shaving, presented the future developments of heat pump system, and put forward the views of the influence on system operational efficiency by transportation energy consumption.