Closed loop heat pump system
Energy Storage in Buildings, A Technology Overview (BG 73/2018), written by John Piggott and published by BSRIA in March 2018, defines a closed loop heat pump system as: ‘A heat pump system in which a fixed mass of working fluid is entirely contained within pipework.’
--BSRIA
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