Exergetic Analysis of a Vertical Ground-Source Heat Pump System with Wall Heating/Cooling

Author(s):  
Ugur Akbulut ◽  
Ozgen Acikgoz ◽  
Olcay Kincay ◽  
T. Hikmet Karakoc
Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Piotr Rynkowski

In this paper, experimental studies were performed for a solar ground source heat pump system (SGSHPS) with a vertical ground heat exchanger (VGHE). The experiment was operated during the summer in 2018. The heat from the solar collector was monitored by measuring the inlet and outlet temperatures and flow rate of the heat transfer fluids. An energy equilibrium balance carried out indicates heat extraction from the solar collector to the ground heat exchanger. It has been established that clear impact is achieved within a radius of 5 m. The average temperature of the actively regenerated borehole was higher than that of the undisturbed profile, which has a direct impact on the significant benefits of the coefficient of performance (COP) of the ground source heat pump system (GSHPS) and effectively helps soil regeneration. The average efficiency ratio of the heat transferred from solar radiation to soil in the SGSHPS was 42.3%.


Author(s):  
Saif Nawaz Ahmad ◽  
Om Prakash

The present research work focuses on the optimization of the ground heat exchanger of the Ground source heat pump system for heating application based on exergetic analysis using the Taguchi method. For this work, we select four influencing factors such as the mass flow rate of water (A), the specific heat of water (B), inlet temperature (C) of water to and outlet temperature of water (D) from the ground heat exchanger at three levels. An L9 orthogonal array was selected for experimental trials and in each trial, we calculate the exergy destruction for the ground heat exchanger, thereafter using statistical software Minitab, we get signal to noise ratios based on smaller is better criterion. After analyzing the response table of Taguchi results, we get the optimum level of all the factors. The ANOVA technique was also applied for getting the most significant factors which affect the output results by calculating the percentage contribution of each factor. According to our results, the best combination of all the four factors for exergetic destruction of the ground heat exchanger was A3B1C1D3 and the most influencing factor was inlet water temperature with a contribution factor of 56.03%.


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