Thermal performance of borehole heat exchanger under groundwater flow: A case study from Baoding

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1368-1373

  Wang, Huajun ^a   Qi, Chengying ^a   Du, Hongpu ^a   Gu, Jihao ^a  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Borehole heat exchanger; Ground source heat pump; Groundwater flow; Thermal performance

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; BOREHOLE HEAT EXCHANGERS; GROUND LAYER; GROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMP; GROUND TEMPERATURE; HEAT EXTRACTION; HEAT INJECTION; LONG-TERM OPERATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MIXED CONVECTION; PUMPS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

EID: 71749099777     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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