Groundbreaking HVAC Performance: ThermoLift Demonstrates Heat Pump Surpassing DOE Targets

"Uniquely, the ThermoLift system can maintain high performance and energy efficiency across these temperature ranges, when other systems require a secondary back-up device," said company President and co-founder Prof Dr.-Ing. Peter Hofbauer

"Uniquely, the ThermoLift system can maintain high performance and energy efficiency across these temperature ranges, when other systems require a secondary back-up device," said company President and co-founder Prof Dr.-Ing. Peter Hofbauer

Beyond the DOE targets, ThermoLift further demonstrated cryogenic temperatures reaching minus 100°C (approximately -150°F). This proved that even at very low ambient temperatures (i.e. outdoor winter temperatures in northern latitudes), the ThermoLift heat pump can still extract renewable heat energy directly from the environment to improve heating efficiency.

HVAC represents approximately 70% of energy consumed in cold climates and on average 45% of the total energy consumed in residential and commercial buildings nationally. ThermoLift has the potential to reduce this number by 30-50%, compared to the installed base as well as state-of-the-art equipment.  This system can deliver a large energy cost reduction to the person paying the energy bills.  ThermoLift's technology reduces acquisition cost (buying one system instead of three) with a smaller equipment footprint.  Market potential for ThermoLift extends beyond commercial and residential buildings to industrial applications including refrigeration, food processing, pharmaceutical manufacture, cryogenics, LNG, and desalination.

About ThermoLift: Founded in 2012, ThermoLift is headquartered at the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center in Stony Brook and receives business development support from the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program (CEBIP) at Stony Brook University.  Recently, ThermoLift released its Gen 3.0 Testing Video that highlights some of its innovations and technological advances.

About ORNL: Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the largest US Department of Energy science and energy laboratory, conducting basic and applied research to deliver transformative solutions to compelling problems in energy and security. Its annual budget is $1.65 billion.

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