Viessman says that, besides its eco-friendly credentials, propane also makes it easier to produce heat pumps that can supply water at 70°C—the sorts of temperatures that gas boilers produce.

Making the switch from fossil fuels like oil, propane or natural gas to clean energy is an environmentally friendly, ...

The analysis published in Energy and Buildings evaluates the performance of a 7 kW system using propane as a refrigerant.

The vast majority of U.S. homes, nearly 90 percent, get their warmth from either electricity — in the form of old, inefficient electric resistance heaters or new, more efficient heat pumps ...

But such a shift would reduce demand for propane, which is used in 50 million American homes, in furnaces, stoves, fireplaces and a range of appliances, according to the National Propane Gas ...

Italy-based Rhoss has developed a cascaded air-source heat pump that uses propane (R290) as the refrigerant. It can produce between 47.4 kW and 190.5 kW of heat and domestic hot water to a ...

Swedish manufacturer Qvantum has developed a 6 kW heat pump for apartments connected to district heating systems. It uses propane (R290) as the refrigerant.

Gas, oil, propane furnaces to be phased out. Updated: Nov. 11, 2024, 4:06 p.m. ... Ground-source (or geothermal) heat pumps, which represent about 20% of the market, ...