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John C. Murphy, Profile

John Murphy is a qualified refrigeration technician and has achieved to date an Advanced Technical Diploma in Electrical Engineering by night. John specialised in the manufacture of both Ground Sourced and Air sourced heat pumps and heat recovery systems.  He has also worked in the maintenance of large scale air conditioning units and in building [...]

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Renewable Energy Studies

Case Studies

Renewable Heating System 2005 - This Renewable heating system was completed in 2005 in West Cork. The 180 sq metre two story house is heated by a 12 Kw Ground sourced heat pump using a horizontal collector array. The heating system has 3 zones;  The down stairs living space has under floor heating, the sleeping space upstairs uses [...]

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Renewable Heating System 2006 - This 200 m² timber framed house built in 2005 has a renewable energy system of a 6 Kw ground sourced heat pump using a 100m bore hole and 5 m² of flat plate on roof solar panels. The System has 3 zones: Living Space: down stairs under floor heating, Sleeping Space: [...]

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Renewable Heating System 2007 - Thisrenewable heating system was installed in  2007 in east Cork, a 230m² timber frame build consisting of 3 zones. The down stairs living Space used under floor heating,the up stairs sleeping area has radiators and the  domestic hot water is served by a 300 litre tank. The heat load is serviced by a 12 Kw air [...]

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Renewable Heating System 2008 - This Renewable heating system was completed in 2005 in West Cork. The 180 sq metre two story house is heated by a 12 Kw Ground sourced heat pump using a horizontal collector array. The heating system has 3 zones;  The down stairs living space has under floor heating, the sleeping space upstairs uses [...]

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Renewable Heating System 2009 - This 320 sq metre concrete build house completed in 2009 has an 800 litre tank in tank combination tank which is heated by a 15Kw ground sourced heat pump using a horizontal collector array and 10 sq metres of in-roof flat plate solar panels. Four zones are fed from the buffer vessel: Living zone; downstairs [...]

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