Modeling and assessment of the efficiency of horizontal and vertical ground heat exchangers

Energy

Volumn 58, Issue , 2013, Pages 655-663

  Florides, G ^a   Theofanous, E ^a   Iosif Stylianou, I ^b   Tassou, S ^c   Christodoulides, P ^a   Zomeni, Z ^b   Tsiolakis, E ^b   Kalogirou, S ^a   Messaritis, V ^a   Pouloupatis, P ^a   Panayiotou, G ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

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

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heat pumps; Horizontal GHE (ground heat exchanger); Modeling; Vertical GHE

Indexed keywords

MODELS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CONTINUOUS OPERATION; GROUND HEAT EXCHANGERS; GROUND TEMPERATURE; HEAT PUMPS; MEAN FLUID TEMPERATURES; OPERATING CONDITION; VERTICAL GHE; VERTICAL GROUND HEAT EXCHANGERS;

HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; HEAT BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PUMP; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84881112035     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.05.053     Document Type: Article

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