Goodman Heat Pump Test Produces Dramatic Results

   IceCOLD may be poised to revolutionize the heating industry.  It is showing much greater performance gains when installed in heat pumps than had been predicted.  Recent testing at the Goodman facility in Topeka has shown eye-popping gains in heat pump performance that go far beyond any expectations.  The system at Goodman delivered increased heating capacity and those gains are greater as the weather gets colder.  From 37 degrees outdoors down to 11 degrees, the gains improved from 2.5% up to 80% in stage I operation. When operating in stage II, the gains ranged up to 50%.   Below 10 degrees, the treated heat pump was producing approximately double the heat that it did prior to IceCOLD.  The colder it gets, the better it works.

   The impact of these finding is huge because it is in this temperature range that expensive supplemental heating is required.  Reducing or eliminating this need will dramatically decrease customer's electric costs.

    Early testing on IceCOLD has shown considerable improvement in evaporator performance. When this technology is applied to heat pumps operating on cold climates, the evidence suggests that heat pumps could produce more heating capacity in cold weather than untreated equipment. Our testing was designed to identify any such gains and to quantify that improvement.  This test strongly suggests that further testing will be required.

    Our testing protocols did not anticipate this type of gains and, as such, we cut off the heat pump at +5 degrees F.  Weather was available for testing at -10 degrees, but we were not prepared for that possibility.  The results suggest that the improvements we found will be available at much lower temperatures.  Further testing at a similar facility next season will be necessary because pre-testing electrical data will be inconclusive.  We noted and corrected a manufacturing defect during the test that invalidates all electrical measurements prior to that discovery.  Post test electrical data is not compromised, however.

    Given this, we DO believe our findings are validated by the very close way test data mirrored available specifications for this piece of equipment.