The products covered by the certification standard are heat pumps (HP), with a heating capacity less than or equal to 100 kW, and with a heating and/or cooling function belonging to the following categories:
- Electrically driven HPs for space heating
- Electrically driven HPs for heating swimming pool water
- Electrically driven HPs for domestic hot water (DHW); with a stored volume of water less than or equal to 2 000 liters:
- Dual-mode HPs, i.e. designed for space heating and DHW production; with a simultaneous or alternating operating function
- HPs exclusively used for a collective DHW production; for a stored volume of water strictly greater than 400 liters
- Gas absorption HPs
- Gas internal combustion engine-driven (ICE) HPs
- Gas external combustion engine-driven (ECE) HPs
In the case of HP with separate components (split or multi-split), the assembly of such components is deemed to be an inseparable system for determining the certified performance.
The HP concerned by the certification have one of the following exchange types:
- “outdoor air / recycled air”
- “exhaust air / fresh air”
- “outdoor air / water”
- "exhaust air / water”
- “(ground) water / recycled air”
- “water (loop) / recycled air”
- “brine water / water”
- “brine water / brine water on geothermal collector”
- “brine water / water on solar collector”
- “(ground) water / water”
- “ground / ground”
- “ground / water”
- “water / ground”
- “outdoor air/ground”
- The energy performance:
- coefficient of performance (COP or GUEh)
- heating capacity (Ph or QNh)
- electric input power (Peh)
- cooling efficiency (EER or GUEc)
- cooling capacity (Pc or QNc)
- electric input power (Pec)
- Sound power level (Lw)
- Share of electrical power for the auxiliaries (Taux)
- Seasonal performance levels for electrically driven HPs (only for air/air, air/water, water/water and brine water/water) :
- seasonal performance coefficient (SCOP ou SEER)
- net seasonal performance coefficient (SCOPnet)
- seasonal energy efficiency (ηsh ou ηsc)
- Seasonal performance levels for gas HPs :
- The reference seasonal gas utilisation efficiency (SGUEh ou SGUEc)
- The reference seasonal primary energy efficiency (SPERh ou SPERc)
- Seasonal energy efficiency (ηsh ou ηsc)
- For variable power regulation HPs :
- minimum load rate in continuous operation (LRcontmin),
- COP (ou GUEh) at LRcontmin,
- performance correction coefficient at LRcontmin (CcpLRcontmin).
- For DHW :
- The heating-up time (th)
- The spare capacity (Pes)
- The reference hot water temperature (q’WH)
- The volume of mixed water at 40°C (V40)
- Daily consumption for the draw-off cycle in question (Qelec)
- Annual consumption (AEC)
- The global performance coefficient for a given tapping cycle (COPglobal)
- The performance coefficient in DHW production mode (COPDHW)
- energy efficiency for water heating (ηWH)
- The reheating time (tR)
- The proportion of renewable energy
Electrically driven HP
A heat pump range comprises products with the same components, namely:
- Same refrigeration process
- same refrigerant
- same compressor type
- same expansion valve type
- same evaporator type
- same condenser type
- same defrosting principle
- same power regulation principle
Dual-mode HP
A simultaneous operation dual-mode heat pump is a system composed of:
- a heat pump
- a storage tank
- a control system
- accessories
An alternating operation dual-mode HP is a system composed of:
- a heat pump,
- a storage tank,
- a control system,
- a hydraulic circuit switching component
- one or more circulation pump(s)
- an intermediate exchanger
- accessories
Gas absorption HP
A gas absorption heat pump system consists of the following components:
- a boiler (generator)
- a gas burner and the components required to supply the combustion air and discharge the combustion products
- a refrigeration circuit
- a condenser
- an expansion device
- an evaporator
- an absorber
- a solution pump
- a control system
- exchanger(s)
An absorption heat pump range comprises products with the same components:
- same refrigeration process
- same refrigerant
- same boiler (generator) type
- same expansion valve type
- same evaporator type
- same absorber type
- same solution pump type
- same condenser type
- same defrosting principle
- same power regulation principle
- same exchanger type
Gas ICE HP
An IC engine-driven gas heat pump system consists of the following components:
- a gas heat engine
- a heat sink
- one or more compressor(s)
- a refrigeration circuit
- a condenser
- an expansion device
- an evaporator
- a control system
An IC engine-driven gas heat pump range comprises products with the same components:
- same refrigeration process
- same refrigerant
- same heat engine type
- same compressor type
- same expansion valve type
- same heat recovery unit type
- same evaporator type
- same condenser type
- same defrosting principle
- same power regulation principle
- same heat recovery regulation principle
Gas ECE HP
An external combustion compressor-driven gas heat pump system consists of the following components:
- a regenerative compressor
- a gas cooler
- a refrigeration circuit
- an expansion device
- an evaporator
- a control system
- a heating element with burners and the components required to supply the combustion air and discharge the combustion products
- a condenser exchanger for combustion products including auxiliary gas
An external combustion compressor-driven gas heat pump range comprises products with the same components:
- same refrigeration process
- same refrigerant
- same regenerative compressor type
- same gas cooler type
- same expansion valve type
- same evaporator type
- same defrosting principle
- same power regulation principle