The Geothermal Field Analysis of Cooling and Heating Load Imbalance for GSHP

Abstract:

This paper developed a heat transfer model of the underground pipe group to study the effect of cooling and heating load imbalance to geothermal field. The results show that, there are the approximate linear relationship between average soil temperature and the total heat flow provided by GSHP system to the soil during the whole running period. The temperature of soil restoration ratio is less than the heat flux ration in the spring and autumn. Simulation results show that when heating/ cooling load equal to 0.5 and the heating flux for the bore hole are 60w/m and -40w/m in the Summer and Winter respectively, after this system run 12 months and 10 hours every day, the average soil temperature around borehole will increase 0.48°C, and the soil close borehole temperature will increase 1.3°C than the initial soil average temperature with the value of 17.6°C, which make GSHP not be efficiently for long term running. The results is hoped to be useful for GSHP design and long term running.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 281)
• Pages: 533-536
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.281.533
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Xiao Hong Zheng, Lei Zhang, Wen Qing Liang, Hua Qian
• Keywords: Average Soil Temperature, Cooling Imbalance, Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP), Heat Transfer of Underground Pipe Group, Heating Imbalance

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