Is this a verified measured project?

No. Evidence level is public-source, and the host is the vendor's demonstration center. The COP of 6.5 is not repeated as a card value.

Why keep a demonstration center in the case library?

It is a named, commissioned megawatt-class steam heat pump with a public date and a public capacity. The page states that it is not a customer factory and that the COP cannot be compared with large-lift plants until temperatures are published.

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Skyven Arcturus demonstration center, Texas: 1 MWth steam-generating heat pump

Vendor and trade notes (November 2025): Skyven commissioned a 1 MWth steam-generating heat-pump demonstration center in Farmers Branch, Texas. It is a supplier demo, not a named host-plant installation. The stated COP of 6.5 is a vendor claim; the temperature lift is not in the same release.

Engineering data

Case type: Public-source case
Data status: public_source
Industry: Manufacturing
Source temperature: Not disclosed
Sink temperature: Not disclosed
Temperature lift: Not applicable
Heating or cooling duty: 1000 kW
Architecture: Skyven Arcturus steam-generating heat pump at a company demonstration center; product line is marketed from 1 to 60 MWth
Result status: Skyven and pv magazine reported commissioning in November 2025 at 1 MWth. The vendor states a COP of 6.5 and a roadmap above 8. Those figures are not placed on the card, because the lift is unpublished and they are not comparable to large-lift steam cases.
Key risk: A COP near 6–8 usually implies a small temperature lift. Until source and steam temperatures are published, do not use 6.5 as a peer of the COP ~2 paper-mill case.
Existing system: Demonstration center for boiler-quality steam, not a published customer process line
Refrigerant: Not stated in the commissioning notes used here
COP: Not disclosed
Annual savings: Not stated as a measured annual total for this demonstration center
Estimated payback: Not disclosed

Project background

In November 2025 Skyven Technologies announced the Arcturus demonstration center in Farmers Branch, near Dallas, Texas. pv magazine described the same 1 MWth unit. A separate 2024 note said an Arcturus system would be supplied to an ethanol plant in Medina, New York; that host plant is not documented as operating in the sources used here, so this entry covers only the Texas demonstration center.

Narrative inputs

Published thermal capacity: 1 MWth of steam. Source temperature, steam pressure, refrigerant, and hours are not in the commissioning notes used here.

Heat pump solution

The vendor describes a steam-generating heat pump that captures waste heat and connects to a steam system, shown at the company's own demonstration center. Cycle details are not in the short announcements.

COP & savings

The only performance number widely quoted is the vendor COP of 6.5, with a stated path above 8, plus a comparison with boilers that this site does not adopt. No temperature pair is published beside that COP in the notes used here.

Investment / ROI notes

No project investment or payback is published for the demonstration center in the notes used here. The 1–60 MWth range is a product statement, not an installed fleet.