A novel shallow bore ground heat exchanger for ground source heat pump applications—Model development and validation
Abstract
A novel ground heat exchanger design, the Underground Thermal Battery (UTB), was proposed as a low-cost alternative to the conventional vertical bore ground heat exchanger (VBGHE) for the application of ground source heat pumps (GSHPs). The UTB is designed to be installed in a shallow borehole (less than 6 m deep) and thus could cost much less than the conventional VBGHE, which usually is installed in vertical bores 60 m deep. By utilizing natural convection of water and phase change materials, the UTB tempers its temperature change in response to thermal loads, which helps improve the efficiency of GSHPs. A one-dimensional (1D) model of the UTB has been developed and validated with the measured performance data of a small-scale UTB, as well as the simulation results of a more detailed three dimensional (3D) numerical model, which accounts for both heat transfer and fluid dynamics in the UTB. Further, this 1D model is computationally much more efficient than the 3D model and thus can simulate the annual performance of the UTB with acceptable computation time. The 1D model has been used to evaluate the performance of the UTB so that it can be compared with the conventional VBGHE.
- Authors:
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[2];
[2]
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1570123
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1779571
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Thermal Engineering
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 164; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-4311
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; Ground source heat pump; Ground heat exchanger; Numerical modeling; Validation
Citation Formats
Warner, Joseph, Liu, Xiaobing, Shi, Liang, Qu, Ming, and Zhang, Mingkan. A novel shallow bore ground heat exchanger for ground source heat pump applications—Model development and validation. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.114460.
Warner, Joseph, Liu, Xiaobing, Shi, Liang, Qu, Ming, & Zhang, Mingkan. A novel shallow bore ground heat exchanger for ground source heat pump applications—Model development and validation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.114460
Warner, Joseph, Liu, Xiaobing, Shi, Liang, Qu, Ming, and Zhang, Mingkan. Sun .
"A novel shallow bore ground heat exchanger for ground source heat pump applications—Model development and validation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.114460. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1570123.
@article{osti_1570123,
title = {A novel shallow bore ground heat exchanger for ground source heat pump applications—Model development and validation},
author = {Warner, Joseph and Liu, Xiaobing and Shi, Liang and Qu, Ming and Zhang, Mingkan},
abstractNote = {A novel ground heat exchanger design, the Underground Thermal Battery (UTB), was proposed as a low-cost alternative to the conventional vertical bore ground heat exchanger (VBGHE) for the application of ground source heat pumps (GSHPs). The UTB is designed to be installed in a shallow borehole (less than 6 m deep) and thus could cost much less than the conventional VBGHE, which usually is installed in vertical bores 60 m deep. By utilizing natural convection of water and phase change materials, the UTB tempers its temperature change in response to thermal loads, which helps improve the efficiency of GSHPs. A one-dimensional (1D) model of the UTB has been developed and validated with the measured performance data of a small-scale UTB, as well as the simulation results of a more detailed three dimensional (3D) numerical model, which accounts for both heat transfer and fluid dynamics in the UTB. Further, this 1D model is computationally much more efficient than the 3D model and thus can simulate the annual performance of the UTB with acceptable computation time. The 1D model has been used to evaluate the performance of the UTB so that it can be compared with the conventional VBGHE.},
doi = {10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.114460},
journal = {Applied Thermal Engineering},
number = C,
volume = 164,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Jan 05 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Sun Jan 05 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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