Improved Design Tools for Surface Water and Standing Column Well Heat Pump Systems (DE-EE0002961)
Abstract
Ground-source heat pump (GSHP) systems are perhaps the most widely used “sustainable” heating and cooling systems, with an estimated 1.7 million installed units with total installed heating capacity on the order of 18 GW. They are widely used in residential, commercial, and institutional buildings. Standing column wells (SCW) are one form of ground heat exchanger that, under the right geological conditions, can provide excellent energy efficiency at a relatively low capital cost. Closed-loop surface water heat pump (SWHP) systems utilize surface water heat exchangers (SWHE) to reject or extract heat from nearby surface water bodies. For building near surface water bodies, these systems also offer a high degree of energy efficiency at a low capital cost. However, there have been few design tools available for properly sizing standing column wells or surface water heat exchangers. Nor have tools for analyzing the energy consumption and supporting economics-based design decisions been available. The main contributions of this project lie in providing new tools that support design and energy analysis. These include a design tool for sizing surface water heat exchangers, a design tool for sizing standing column wells, a new model of surface water heat pump systems implemented in EnergyPlus and amore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1111113
- Report Number(s):
- Final Scientific Report
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0002961
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
Citation Formats
Spitler, J. D., Culling, J. R., Conjeevaram, K., Ramesh, M., and Selvakumar, M. Improved Design Tools for Surface Water and Standing Column Well Heat Pump Systems (DE-EE0002961). United States: N. p., 2012.
Web. doi:10.2172/1111113.
Spitler, J. D., Culling, J. R., Conjeevaram, K., Ramesh, M., & Selvakumar, M. Improved Design Tools for Surface Water and Standing Column Well Heat Pump Systems (DE-EE0002961). United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1111113
Spitler, J. D., Culling, J. R., Conjeevaram, K., Ramesh, M., and Selvakumar, M. 2012.
"Improved Design Tools for Surface Water and Standing Column Well Heat Pump Systems (DE-EE0002961)". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1111113. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1111113.
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title = {Improved Design Tools for Surface Water and Standing Column Well Heat Pump Systems (DE-EE0002961)},
author = {Spitler, J. D. and Culling, J. R. and Conjeevaram, K. and Ramesh, M. and Selvakumar, M.},
abstractNote = {Ground-source heat pump (GSHP) systems are perhaps the most widely used “sustainable” heating and cooling systems, with an estimated 1.7 million installed units with total installed heating capacity on the order of 18 GW. They are widely used in residential, commercial, and institutional buildings. Standing column wells (SCW) are one form of ground heat exchanger that, under the right geological conditions, can provide excellent energy efficiency at a relatively low capital cost. Closed-loop surface water heat pump (SWHP) systems utilize surface water heat exchangers (SWHE) to reject or extract heat from nearby surface water bodies. For building near surface water bodies, these systems also offer a high degree of energy efficiency at a low capital cost. However, there have been few design tools available for properly sizing standing column wells or surface water heat exchangers. Nor have tools for analyzing the energy consumption and supporting economics-based design decisions been available. The main contributions of this project lie in providing new tools that support design and energy analysis. These include a design tool for sizing surface water heat exchangers, a design tool for sizing standing column wells, a new model of surface water heat pump systems implemented in EnergyPlus and a new model of standing column wells implemented in EnergyPlus. These tools will better help engineers design these systems and determine the economic and technical feasibility.},
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year = {Fri Nov 30 00:00:00 EST 2012},
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