The effect of borefield geometry and ground thermal load profile on hourly thermal response of geothermal heat pump systems

Energy

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 323-329

  Fossa, Marco ^a   Minchio, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Studio 3F Engineering   (Italy)

Author keywords

Borehole heat exchangers; G functions; Geothermal heat pumps

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; INVESTMENTS;

AGGREGATION ALGORITHMS; BOREHOLE HEAT EXCHANGERS; CONDUCTION EQUATIONS; G-FUNCTIONS; GROUND COUPLED HEAT PUMP; IN-LINE CONFIGURATION; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TIME VARYING ANALYSIS;

GEOMETRY;

ALGORITHM; BOREHOLE; COMBINED HEAT AND POWER; DESIGN METHOD; EQUIPMENT; GEOTHERMAL POWER; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUMP; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 84875392546     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.12.043     Document Type: Article

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