Interactions between the physical soil environment and a horizontal ground coupled heat pump, for a domestic site in the UK

Renewable Energy

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 141-153

  Garcia Gonzalez, Raquel ^a   Verhoef, Anne ^a   Vidale, Pier Luigi ^a   Main, Bruce ^a   Gan, Guogui ^b   Wu, Yupeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coefficient of Performance; Heat extraction; Horizontal ground source heat pumps; Renewable energy; Soil thermal properties

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; GROUND HEAT EXCHANGERS; GROUND-COUPLED HEAT PUMP; HEAT EXTRACTION; HEAT-RESOURCE; HORIZONTAL HEAT EXCHANGER; INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MECHANISTIC STUDIES; MODEL VERIFICATION; MOISTURE MIGRATION; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SIMULATION MODEL; SOIL ENVIRONMENT; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL THERMAL PROPERTIES; SURROUNDING SOILS; SUSTAINABLE USE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS;

CALIBRATION; HEAT BALANCE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUMP; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STATE ROLE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84858295651     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.01.080     Document Type: Article

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