- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
This authoritative guide provides a basis for understanding the emerging technology of ground source heating and cooling. It equips engineers, geologists, architects, planners and regulators with the fundamental skills needed to manipulate the ground's huge capacity to store, supply and receive heat, and to implement technologies (such as heat pumps) to exploit that capacity for space heating and cooling.
The author has geared the book towards understanding ground source heating and cooling from the ground side (the geological aspects), rather than solely the building aspects. He explains the science behind thermogeology and offers practical guidance on different design options.
An Introduction to Thermogeology: ground source heating and cooling is aimed primarily at professionals whose skill areas impinge on the emerging technology of ground source heating and cooling. They will be aware of the importance of the technology and wish to rapidly acquire fundamental theoretical understanding and design skills.
This second edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to cover new technical developments and now includes end-of-chapter study questions to testthe reader'sunderstanding.
Frequently asked questions
Information
1.1 Who should read this book?
- graduate and postgraduate level students;
- civil and geotechnical engineers;
- buildings services and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) engineers who are new to ground source heat;
- applied geologists, especially hydrogeologists;
- architects;
- planners and regulators;
- energy consultants.
1.2 What will this book do and not do?
- The thermogeologist
- The architect, who must ensure that the building is designed to be heated using the relatively low-temperature heating fluids (and cooled by relatively high-temperature chilled media) that are produced efficiently by most ground source heat pump/heat exchange schemes.
- The buildings services/HVAC engineer, who must implement the design and must design hydraulically efficient collector and distribution networks, thus ensuring that the potential energetic benefits of ground heat exchange systems are not frittered away in pumping costs.
- The electromechanical and electronic engineer, who will be needed to install the heat pump and associated control systems
- The pipe welder and the driller, who will be responsible for installing thermally efficient, environmentally sound and non-leaky ground heat exchangers.
- The owner, who needs to appreciate that an efficient ground heat exchange system must be operated in a wholly different way to a conventional gas boiler (e.g. ground source heat pumps often run at much lower output temperatures than a gas boiler and will therefore be less thermally responsive).
- the manual of Kavanaugh and Rafferty (1997) â despite its insistence on using such unfamiliar units as Btu ftâ1 °Fâ1, so beloved of our American cousins;
- the set of manuals issued by the International Ground Source Heating Association (IGSHPA) â IGSHPA (1988), Bose (1989), Eckhart (1991), Jones (1995), Hiller (2000), and IGSHPA (2007);
- the recent book by Ochsner (2008a);
- the newly developed Geotrainet (2011) manual, which has a specifically European perspective and has been written by some of the continentâs foremost thermophysicists, thermogeologists and HVAC engineers;
- the German Engineersâ Association standards (VDI, 2000, 2001a,b, 2004, 2008);
- numerous excellent booklets aimed at different national user communities, such as that of the Energy Saving Trust (2007).
1.3 Why should you read this book?
Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Title page
- Copyright page
- About the Author
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 An Introduction
- 2 Geothermal Energy
- 3 The Subsurface as a Heat Storage Reservoir
- 4 What Is a Heat Pump?
- 5 Heat Pumps and Thermogeology: A Brief History and International Perspective
- 6 Ground Source Cooling
- 7 Options and Applications for Ground Source Heat Pumps
- 8 The Design of Groundwater-Based Open-Loop Systems
- 9 Pipes, Pumps and the Hydraulics of Closed-Loop Systems
- 10 Subsurface Heat Conduction and the Design of Borehole-Based Closed-Loop Systems
- 11 Horizontal Closed-Loop Systems
- 12 Pond- and Lake-Based Ground Source Heat Systems
- 13 Standing Column Wells
- 14 Thinking Big: Large-Scale Heat Storage and Transfer
- 15 Thermal Response Testing
- 16 Environmental Impact, Regulation and Geohazards
- References
- Study Question Answers
- Symbols
- Glossary
- Units
- Index