Énergie aérothermiqueAn air source heat pump (ASHP) is a type of heat pump that can absorb heat from outside a structure and release it inside using the same vapor-compression refrigeration process and much the same equipment as air conditioners but used in the opposite direction. Unlike an air conditioning unit, most ASHPs are reversible and are able to either warm or cool buildings and in some cases also provide domestic hot water. In a typical setting, an ASHP can gain 4 kWh thermal energy from 1 kWh electric energy.
Countercurrent exchangeCountercurrent exchange is a mechanism occurring in nature and mimicked in industry and engineering, in which there is a crossover of some property, usually heat or some chemical, between two flowing bodies flowing in opposite directions to each other. The flowing bodies can be liquids, gases, or even solid powders, or any combination of those. For example, in a distillation column, the vapors bubble up through the downward flowing liquid while exchanging both heat and mass.
Degré Fahrenheitvignette|redresse|Thermomètre à alcool à double échelle de mesure. vignette|100px| et . Le degré Fahrenheit (symbole : °F) est une unité de mesure de la température, proposée par le physicien allemand Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit en 1724. Historiquement, dans cette échelle, le point zéro était la température de solidification d'un mélange eutectique de chlorure d'ammonium et d'eau, et le était la température du corps humain. Fahrenheit vérifia que le point de solidification de l’eau était de et son point d'ébullition de Fahrenheit.
