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Performance Overview of Caloric Heat Pumps. Magnetocaloric, Elastocaloric, Electrocaloric, and Barocaloric Systems – Update 2025

Abstract

This technical report provides an overview of the performance of different heating and cooling caloric systems: magnetocaloric, elastocaloric, electrocaloric, and barocaloric heat pumps. It compares the performance of these innovative caloric heat pump systems with that of traditional vapour-compression heat pumps. This review focuses on heating and cooling applications at near room temperature for indoor environment conditioning or sanitary hot water production (-30 °C to 100 °C). High-temperature and cryogenic applications (e.g., hydrogen liquification) are thus not included in this report. This overview is based on experimental and numerical data collected from 209 scientific publications and public technical reports.
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Category

Other report

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Community / Architectural Engineering

Date

18.11.2025

Year

2025

Publisher

SINTEF akademisk forlag

Issue

58

ISBN

9788253618838

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