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.

工程数据

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 Those figures are not placed on the card, because the lift is unpublished and they are not comparable to large-lift steam cases.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

项目背景

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.

叙述性输入

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

热泵方案

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 与节能

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.

投资回报要点

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.