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22113: 2020 Residential Consumer Integrated
Project Title: View Executive Summary
Outreach Program
Applicant /
Primary Partner: Swanson Russell

$250,000
(Safety and Training)
Funding Requested: Total Project Cost: $4,250,000
$4,000,000
(Residential)

This project is a continuation of the Propane Can Do That® residential consumer
outreach campaign that launched in January 2019 and is funded through December
2019. Through July 2019, the Propane Can Do That® residential consumer outreach
campaign had compiled some impressive achievements:
• More than 1.14 million visitors to propane.com, with more than 64 percent driven to
Project Summary: the site by paid digital advertising, and 9 percent by paid search advertising.
• Nearly 13.77 million views of the Propane Can Do That® video via YouTube.
• More than 173.35 million impressions.
• More than 16,500 Find a Propane Retailer searches.
In 2020 we seek to build and improve on these outcomes, giving consumers information
and inspiration to choose propane for the home.

PERC Project Tina Wilson Working Group: Market Development and
Leader: Outreach

Residential & Commercial
2019 Budget: $7,245,000 Remaining as of 10/2019: -$300,000
2020 Budget: $6,165,000

22097: Heat Pump Water Heater with
Project Title: View Executive Summary
Gas Sterling Linear Compressor
Applicant /
Primary Partner: Gas Technology Institute

Funding Requested: $63,000 Total Project Cost: $2,061,000

Despite their proven benefits for both the grid and end-users, existing gas-fired integrated
heat pump systems have not demonstrated the cost effectiveness that enables their wide
adoption. The proposed project is to develop an integrated, reliable, high-efficiency, and
low-cost Stirling engine-driven heat pump water heating system intended for residential
and light commercial applications. The Stirling engine will use propane or natural gas as
Project Summary: a heat source. It will directly drive a variable pressure ratio (VPR) linear compressor. The
proposed system employs the Stirling linear compressor in heat pump applications with
the outstanding reliability of the free-piston Stirling engine demonstrated in previously
NASA- and DOE-funded projects. It also integrates the heat pump refrigerant cycle as
heat sink and incorporates the high effectiveness involute regenerator and integrated
Stirling heater head assembly with additive manufacturing to achieve the highest system
efficiency. The use of an additive manufacturing method can greatly reduce the number

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