Heat Pump COP API
Heat-pump and refrigeration performance maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically — the efficiency numbers an HVAC engineer, energy auditor or heat-pump installer actually works with. The cop endpoint gives the coefficient of performance and the US EER rating from the thermal capacity and the electrical power: a unit moving 7 kW of heat on 2 kW of electricity has a COP of 3.5 (an EER of 12), meaning 3.5 units of heating or cooling for every unit of electricity — which is why a heat pump beats resistance heating, where the COP is exactly 1. The carnot endpoint gives the unbeatable ideal limit set only by the absolute temperatures — heating = Th ÷ (Th − Tc), cooling = Tc ÷ (Th − Tc) in kelvin, where heating COP always equals cooling COP plus one — and, given a real COP, the second-law efficiency that says how close the machine runs to that ceiling; the smaller the temperature lift, the higher the limit, which is why ground-source and low-temperature systems beat air-source on a cold day. The capacity endpoint turns electrical power and a COP into the delivered heating or cooling in kilowatts, BTU per hour and tons of refrigeration — the extra energy over the electricity is pulled from the outside air, ground or water. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for HVAC and refrigeration engineers, energy auditors, heat-pump and building-performance tools, and sustainability dashboards. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Estimates at the stated conditions — real COP falls as the temperature lift rises. 3 compute endpoints. For room sizing use an HVAC BTU API; for moist-air properties use a psychrometric API.
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