欧洲热泵技术论坛及展览会（Heat Pump Forum & European Heat Pump Summit）是热泵技术专业论坛交流大会，以及热泵产品技术展览会议，从2009年开始举办，两年一届，在纽伦堡国际展览中心举行。热泵技术在Chillventa -制冷，空调，通风及热泵展览会上发挥重要作用，充分体现了热泵技术的重要性。该展主要以论坛及交流会议的形式进行对热泵技术、热泵的重要作用、热泵的解决方案、热泵的发展方向等方面各参与者深入交换意见，同时展示相关最新的产品及产品技术、解决方案等。
欧洲热泵峰会作为专家的平台用于热泵和组件制造商，从科学，研究和发展，特别是专家，以及规划，能源顾问，计划装配，以及地方当局，商业和工业物业运营商。
欧洲热泵峰会主题：热泵全球应用；工商业；市场发展；全球和国家，可持续未来的重要性，条例和立法；研究与开发；工业热泵，智能电网，混合系统，家庭热水，集中供热，区域供热，多户住宅，；组件和产品开发；制冷剂 - 压缩机 - 换热器 - 风扇 - 泵 - 控制。
欧洲热泵峰会（European Heat Pump Summit - EHPS）也是纽伦堡热泵世界，国际热泵世界将在纽伦堡再次相遇。 欧洲热泵峰会汇集了专家知识，培育了热泵行业的专业交流。 国际专家讨论市场发展，技术和应用趋势。它由国际专家组组成，由技术人员，研究人员，设计师，产品开发人员，决策者和顾问组成，用于从热泵生产和应用的各个领域进行产品开发。参加的公司提供了最新产品和创新平台。 热泵，尤其是零部件制造商与用户密切联系。
展品范围(Show Products):
热泵技术和应用的发展概况；热泵对未来可持续发展的重要性；现状及展望欧洲热泵市场；在欧洲国家实施的“可再生能源指令”；热泵对智能城市的重要性；热泵组件，产品和系统的开发；热泵的住宅应用；商用和工业方面热泵的应用。
展会报告(Show Reports):
The international heat pump community enjoyed two great days of conferencing. The European Heat Pump Summit attracted a record attendance of some 570 participants from a total of 42 countries. The high-quality programme of presentations, including numerous specific approaches to solving current problems, impressed the trade professionals in every way. The accompanying exhibition in the foyer boasted twice as many exhibitors (31) as the previous edition, and was a magnet for visitors during breaks.
“The European Heat Pump Summit is one of Europe’s and the world’s most important events for international heat pump experts – as this year’s event proved yet again. Today’s challenges in reducing CO₂ and addressing climate change make this summit even more important. This is where the key approaches for future solutions are presented and discussed by the industry’s leading experts. This year’s event attracted more in-person attendees than ever before – a wonderful community get-together,” said Daniela Heinkel, director for the European Heat Pump Summit and Chillventa at NürnbergMesse.
“We were already fully booked up for on-site attendance even before the event started. We’re very pleased at this tremendous interest, which once again highlights this conference’s significance. The more than 150 digital attendees in particular show that our high-quality content was especially on target. Heat pumps will again be a major theme at Chillventa in October 2024. We look forward to seeing everyone again,” said Elke Harreiss, executive director for the European Heat Pump Summit and Chillventa at NürnbergMesse. “The event space had to be evacuated briefly because of a security alert from the police, but the situation was quickly resolved. There was no danger to participants at any time. And we thank them for their patience and their calm response,” Harreiss added.
High-quality programme of presentations sets new records
The 2023 European Heat Pump Summit was a success all down the line. The new record participation also included a high level of international attendance. Heat pump experts came to Nuremberg from 42 countries to be impressed with the 39 presentations by renowned international speakers. The summit again spanned a broad range of topics, whether developments in market and energy policies, or the latest research results on applications for residential buildings, the home, and industry, or the potential application of IoT and AI.
Dr Rainer Jakobs, content coordinator for the European Heat Pump Summit and Chillventa CONGRESS, summarized the event like this: “The conference once again demonstrates the importance of heat pumps in meeting social challenges like protecting the climate. The 39 first-rate presentations addressed all current issues in the heat pump sector, from science, to developments in industry and technology, to applications. Top-level knowledge transfers and high-intensity networking opportunities were once again a focus of the summit in 2023, and offered true added value for attendees, whether on site or at their computer screens around the world. One of the most intriguing presentations for example was by Thomas Nowak of the EHPA, who concentrated on the heat pump market in Europe. He pointed out that 2022 had been a record year for heat pumps, with three million units sold. That means 20 million heat pumps are installed in Europe alone.
Dr George Bennet, of the UK government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, supplemented the picture with the British government’s road map for how decarbonizing the heating of private homes and office buildings might look. A total of 30 million households and office buildings are to be converted by 2050, and heat pumps will be playing a key role.
Another very interesting presentation came from Marcel Rössler of ebm-papst. He focused on noise ratings for heat pumps and on deriving a psychoacoustic metric for ventilator development. Air to water heat pumps are not entirely noiseless, and the more densely built up an area is, the more the machines’ noise may annoy neighbours. Here the measurable sound pressure level is by no means the only crucial factor – human noise perception is also important, and here psychoacoustics comes into play, together with its investigative methods. A specialised psychoacoustics laboratory for test subjects was set up, where the running noise of heat pumps and their incorporated ventilators could be demonstrated in various configurations. The test subjects’ assessments were analysed using statistical and psychological methods. The results are being incorporated into the company’s own ventilator development, and also provide information about which ventilators are best suited for a given installation situation.
Dr Veronika Wilk, of the Austrian Institute of Technology, reported on case studies and market opportunities for IoT-capable heat pumps. More and more of the time, heat pumps are becoming networked devices capable of being connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). Heat pumps like these, in both home and industry applications, make it possible to optimise operation so as to cut energy consumption, reduce carbon footprint, mine economic advantages, or improve comfort.
Along those same lines, Ran Roth, of Sensibo, reported on how artificial intelligence and data analyses can optimise heat pumps’ energy consumption. He showed how AI algorithms learn through a continuous analysis of ambient data and adapt to users’ individual preferences by fine-tuning heating and cooling processes to achieve a perfect room climate, while at the same time minimizing energy consumption.
The great popularity of the European Heat Pump Summit highlights that heat pumps are on the fast track not just for residential uses but for commerce and industry. Industry in particular is using heat pumps as one of its most important tools for decarbonisation.”
Connecting Experts: Foyer exhibition and get-together provide networking highlights
The accompanying foyer exhibition, where 31 key players in the industry presented their innovative products and solutions, also demonstrated impressive growth. At twice the floor space, with twice the number of exhibitors compared to 2021, here attendees had first-class opportunities for in-depth, one-to-one shop talk and conversations, and not just during the breaks between presentations. The event’s slogan, “Connecting Experts”, was also fully in action at the get-together on the first evening of the event. Attendees took full advantage of this opportunity to wind up the day in a relaxed setting, and the occasion quickly became a networking highlight.
Put them on your calendar: Chillventa 2024 and European Heat Pump Summit 2025
The next Chillventa, the world’s leading exhibition for refrigeration technology, will be held once again from 8 to 10 October 2024 at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre. Along with heat pumps, the event will once again focus on technologies for refrigeration, air conditioning, and ventilation. And the profession’s elite Chillventa ConGRESS will kick off the day before, on 7 October. Heat pump professionals are already looking forward to meeting at Chillventa in 2024, and at the next European Heat Pump Summit in October 2025.
