3 bedroom semi-detached house to 1930s specifications
Testing to be carried out in the winter of 2010/2011
‘CALEBRE’: Consumer-Appealing
Low Energy Technologies for
Building Retrofitting
Test house
Previous Research
• A two-bed heat pump system has been
demonstrated in the laboratory
• Plate heat exchanger adsorption
generators
• Air source
• Powered by an electric heater
Comparison of Technologies
CALEBRE Project
- Funded by the EPSRC and E.ON
- Coordinated by Loughborough
- Variety of energy saving products to be
retrofitted to a test house at Nottingham
University, including:
– Electric heat pump
– Vacuum glazing
– Nano-particle insulation - Warwick’s role is to demonstrate a gas heat
pump
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