Samsung teams up with US lab to develop heat pumps for extreme cold
- Source
- The Korea Herald - Business
- Source link
- https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10835005
- Published
- 2026-08-09 10:21:05
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-09 01:27:34
- Category
- Procurement & Supply Chain News
- Geography
- South Korea
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
Samsung Electronics has teamed up with the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop technology designed to provide stable heating and hot water even at temperatures below minus 30 degrees Celsius, the company said Sunday. The research will focus on advancing vapor-compression technology, the core mechanism behind heat pumps that circulates refrigerant between liquid and gas states to absorb heat from outside and transfer it indoors. Samsung and the US laboratory aim to
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