Effective pipe-to-borehole thermal resistance for vertical ground heat exchangers

Geothermics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 271-277

  Sharqawy, Mostafa H ^a   Mokheimer, Esmail M ^b   Badr, Hassan M ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Borehole; Geothermal; Ground coupled heat pump; Ground heat exchanger; Thermal resistance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; APPROXIMATE ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; EQUIVALENT DIAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; GEOTHERMAL; GROUND COUPLED HEAT PUMP; GROUND HEAT EXCHANGER; HEAT TRANSFER RATES; THERMAL RESISTANCE; U-SHAPED;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; PIPE; PUMPS;

HEAT RESISTANCE;

BOREHOLE; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 67349128627     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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