Performance of ground heat exchangers: A comprehensive review of recent advancesHossein Javadi, Seyed Soheil Mousavi Ajarostaghi, Marc A. Rosen and Mohsen Pourfallah Energy, 2019, vol. 178, issue C, 207-233 Abstract: The importance of investigating and addressing climate change, through the use of renewable energy, is substantially increasing. Shallow geothermal energy is usually a sustainable and affordable renewable energy source which can be exploited through ground-source heat pump systems. The ground heat exchanger is not only the most important component of the system but also plays a significant role in achieving a high coefficient of performance. In this article, a comprehensive review is carried out of recent advances in the field of ground heat exchangers, including assessments of the effects of system geometric configuration, pipe material, working fluid, and depth of ground heat exchanger on heat flux, heat transfer coefficient, outlet temperature, thermal resistance, and pressure drop. Due to the significance of the ground heat exchanger geometric configuration on system performance, it has recently been extensively investigated. However, there are few comprehensive reviews of these studies and the present article tries to meet this need. Keywords: Geothermal energy; Ground-source heat pump; Ground heat exchanger; Heat transfer coefficient; Thermal resistance; Pressure drop (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:178:y:2019:i:c:p:207-233 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2019.04.094 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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