Geothermal properties of the ground in Cyprus and their effect on the efficiency of ground coupled heat pumps

Renewable Energy

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-89

  Florides, Georgios ^a   Pouloupatis, Panayiotis D ^a   Kalogirou, Soteris ^a   Messaritis, Vassilios ^a   Panayides, Ioannis ^b   Zomeni, Zomenia ^b   Partasides, George ^c   Lizides, Andreas ^c   Sophocleous, Eleni ^d   Koutsoumpas, Kostas ^e  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^c Ministry of Commerce   (Cyprus)

^d First Elements Euroconsultants Ltd   (Cyprus)

^e Drilco CK Ltd   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Geothermal; Ground heat exchangers; Ground temperatures; Heat pump efficiency

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMAL; GROUND COUPLED HEAT PUMP; GROUND HEAT EXCHANGERS; GROUND TEMPERATURE; HEAT PUMP EFFICIENCY; UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY;

GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS;

EFFICIENCY;

BOREHOLE; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; PUMP;

CYPRUS;

EID: 84866541253     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.01.059     Document Type: Article

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