numerical simulation of a horizontal ground-coupled heat pump

Performance Assessment of a Variable Capacity Air Source Heat Pump and a Horizontal Loop Coupled Ground Source Heat Pump System

This study evaluates the performance of air source heat pump (ASHP) and ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems individually and as part of their associated heating and cooling distribution systems in two semi-attached houses. Over the monitoring period, the performance of both heat pumps exceeded manufacturer and EnerGuide ratings, with Coefficients of Performance (COPs) above 5 in the cooling ...

Heat Transfer Modeling of the Ground Heat Exchangers for the Ground-Coupled Heat Pump Systems

Ground-coupled heat pump (GCHP) systems have been gaining increasing popularity for space air conditioning in buildings due to their reduced energy and maintenance costs. The efficiency of GCHP systems is inherently higher than that of the traditional options because it utilizes the ground which maintains a relatively stable temperature all the year round as a heat source/sink. Compared with tr...

Simulation of a Domestic Ground Source Heat Pump System Using a Transient Numerical Borsehole Heat Exchanger Model

Common approaches to the simulation of Borehole Heat Exchangers (BHEs) assume heat transfer in circulating fluid and grout to be in a quasi-steady state and ignore fluctuations in fluid temperature due to transport of the fluid around the loop. However, in domestic ground source heat pump systems, the heat pump and circulating pumps switch on and off during a given hour; therefore the effect of...

Simulation and Optimization of Ground Source Heat Pump Systems

Numerical Simulation of Cavitation in Mixed Flow Pump

The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance and three-dimensional behavior of the flow in a mixed flow pump and the way cavitation phenomenon is affected by different parameters such as fluid temperature, pump speed and flow rate. Computational fluid dynamic software FLUENT 6.3 was utilized to simulate the whole flow field of the pump. RNG k-ε model combined with standard wall f...

Study And Experimental Analysis Of Horizontal Ground Source Heat Pump System

1Thermal Engineering, IES College of Tech. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. 2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Eng., IES College of Tech. Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract In modern life as we seen that the requirement of space heating and coolin...