| Title |
Cooling Performance of Geothermal Heat Pump Using Surface Water Heat Exchanger |
| Authors |
Hyo Jae Lim ; Hyoung Jin Kong ; Byonghu Sohn |
| DOI |
https://dx.doi.org/10.6110/KJACR.2017.29.6.316 |
| Keywords |
지열 히트펌프 ; 지표수 열교환기 ; 연못 ; 지표수 히트펌프 ; 냉방 성능 Geothermal heat pump ; Surface water heat exchanger ; Pond ; Surface water heat pump ; Cooling performance |
| Abstract |
Commercial buildings and institutions are predominantly cooled, thereby dissipating excess heat to a vertical ground heat exchanger (VGHE), than heat extracted over an annual cycle. Surface waters, such as lakes and ponds, provide a cost-effective means of reducing the VGHE length, and in balancing the thermal loads to the ground. This paper presents the measurement and analysis of the cooling performance of ground-coupled heat pump (GCHP) system, using surface water heat exchanger (SWHE) submerged in an artificial pond. In order to measure the performance of the system, we installed monitoring equipment, including sensors, for assessing the temperature and power consumption, after which the operation parameters were determined. The results from the thermal performance test for the SWHE indicate that the temperatures at the outlet of the SWHE and within the pond were affected by outdoor air temperature. In addition, the results reveal similar variation trends on temperatures; however, the peak temperatures of the SWHE were somewhat greater than those of outdoor air, due to the thermal capacity of the pond. Analyzing the cooling performance over the measurement period, the average coefficient of performance (COP) of heat pump was found to be 5.71, while that for the entire system was 2.99. |