Evaluation of different heat extraction strategies for shallow vertical ground-source heat pump systems

Applied Energy

Volumn 149, Issue , 2015, Pages 259-271

  Retkowski, Waldemar ^a   Ziefle, Gesa ^b   Thöming, Jorg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Ground source; GSHPS; Heat flux; Heat pump; Optimisation

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PUMPS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; GROUND SOURCE; GSHPS; HEAT FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; HEAT PUMPS; OPTIMISATIONS; VERTICAL GROUND HEAT EXCHANGERS;

GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT BALANCE; HEATING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PUMP;

EID: 84926674583     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.03.004     Document Type: Article

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