Queenswood - Air Souce Heat Pump

Queenswood Country park & Arboretum is Herefordshire Wildlife Trust's most visited nature reserve. With support from grant funding, Queenswood’s Jubilee Building (which houses the Sustainable Future Centre) now has an air source heat pump, which replaced a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) boiler.

Air source heat pumps (ASHP) transfer heat from outside to inside a building, or vice versa. An ASHP uses a refrigerant system involving a compressor and a condenser to absorb heat at one place and release it at another. Air Source Heat Pumps can save on heating bills if replacing an electric, oil, LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) or coal system, rather than gas. However, good insulation is essential – otherwise the heat the pump is generating escapes more easily.