Browsing Proceedings of the IGSHPA Research Track 2018 by Title
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Field performance of a district central ground source heat pump system in the US
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)This case study discusses the field performance of a district central ground source heat pump (GSHP) system installed at Ball State University (BSU) in Muncie, IN., USA. This district GSHP system replaces the existing ... -
Financial assessment of ground source heat pump systems against other selected heating and cooling systems for Australian conditions
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)Ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems can provide cost-effective space heating and cooling for buildings while using less fossil fuel compared to many conventional systems. Despite these benefits, they typically have ... -
Foundation wall heat exchanger model and validation study
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)Making use of foundation substructural elements as ground heat exchangers is an attractive option for larger non-residential buildings. An alternative to Energy Piles is to use wall substructures - so called diaphragm or ... -
Full-scale model to predict borehole fluid temperature with groundwater advection
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)Ground source heat pump (GSHP) system is one of the major techniques that utilize shallow geothermal energy and borehole heat exchangers (BHEs) is the key component in GSHP system. Although most proposed analytical models ... -
G-functions for bore fields with mixed parallel and series connections considering axial fluid temperature variations
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)A semi-analytical method based on the finite line source (FLS) solution is presented to evaluate thermal response factors for geothermal bore fields with mixed series and parallel connections between boreholes. Each borehole ... -
Geothermal storage integration into supermarket's CO2 refrigeration system
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)This paper investigates the integration of geothermal storage into the state-of-the-art CO2 trans-critical booster systems. The objective is to evaluate the impact on energy efficiency of this integration. Three scenarios ... -
High temperature borehole thermal energy storage - A case study
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)Combining High-Temperature Borehole Thermal Energy Storages (HT-BTES) with existing Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems running on waste fuels seems to be a promising approach to increase the energy efficiency of district ... -
Hybrid model for generating short-time g-functions
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)A hybrid numerical/analytical approach is proposed to predict short-time g-functions. Transient heat transfer in the borehole is solved numerically while ground heat transfer is evaluated analytically using the infinite ... -
Hydrogeothermal characterization and modelling of a standing column well experimental installation
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)Standing column wells (SCW) are efficient ground heat exchangers that offer promising potential for integration in dense urban areas. Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in SCWs, resulting in the development of ... -
Impact of a demand-side management strategy in operating a hybrid geo-district energy system for a high-rise mixed-use residential building in Toronto, Canada
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)In Ontario, Canada, the building thermal energy market is largely driven by the low cost of natural gas as a heating fuel source, with natural gas rates being approximately five times less per unit energy than electricity. ... -
Impacts of injection temperature on the relevant heat transport processes in groundwater heat pump (GWHP) systems
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)In many hydrogeological applications, the influence of temperature on fluid density and viscosity have often been neglected. However, high contrasts in temperature which occurs in the field applications such as groundwater ... -
Model predictive control applied to residential self-assisted ground source heat pumps
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)The seasonal performance and feasibility of a "self-assisted" ground source heat pump system are examined. The system uses an electric heating element to inject heat into the ground and reduce peak energy demand by eliminating ... -
Near-instant g-function construction with artificial neural networks
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)A g-function is a useful tool that simplifies the calculations of heat exchanges in a ground-coupled heat pump system. In this work, we show how an artificial neural network can be trained to construct a g-function with ... -
Newton-Raphson method applied to the time-superposed ILS for parameter estimation in Thermal Response Tests
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)Thermal Response Testing is now a well-known and widely-used method allowing the determination of the local thermal or geometrical properties of a Borehole Heat Exchanger (BHE), those properties being critical in the design ... -
Numerical simulation of slinky-coil ground heat exchangers installed in railway tunnels
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)The use of horizontal ground heat exchangers (HGHEs) greatly reduces the initial cost of GSHP systems in comparison with vertical GHEs. Though the HGHEs are commonly used in North American countries, the installation number ... -
On the role of vertical ground heat flux for analytical simulation of borehole heat exchangers
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)Analytical modelling techniques are frequently used for prediction of the impacts of borehole heat exchangers (BHEs) on the thermal conditions in the subsurface. They are appealing because they are easy to use, compact and ... -
Parameters optimization of ground source heat pump system combined energy consumption and economic analysis using Taguchi method
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)In order to obtain a high performance and low cost of ground source heat pump (GSHP) system, a methodology based on Taguchi method and analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to optimize design parameters of GSHP systems. ... -
Performance analysis of a single underground thermal storage borehole using phase change material
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)Ground source heat pumps (GSHP) are used to provide both heating and cooling to a given system. These heat pumps transfer heat efficiently between the system and the ground. Despite this high efficiency, there has been a ... -
Preliminary research for eight possible groundwater energy utilisation sites in Southern Finland
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)Groundwater energy utilisation has not been widely regognised as a significant renewable energy source for industry in Finland. This investigation provides example of cost-effective study to map groundwater energy utilisation ... -
Pulsated Thermal Response Test experiments and modelling for ground thermal property estimation
(International Ground Source Heat Pump Association, 2018)The Thermal Response Test (TRT) is a well known experimental technique for estimating both the ground thermal conductivity and the effective borehole heat exchangers (BHE) resistance in ground coupled heat pump (GCHP) ...