Comparative Analysis of Borehole Heat Exchanger Use in Different Climatic Conditions
- Key words
- borehole heat exchangers, heat pumps, low enthalpy/temperature geothermal energy, economy of BHE systems, geoenergetics, underground thermal energy storages
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 2015
- Session
- Geothermal Heat Pumps
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 29077
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Abstract
This paper was made to compare the differences between borehole heat exchanger used for heating and cooling a typical house in BahÃa Blanca, Argentina and Krakow, Poland. In Argentina 57% of electricity comes from thermal power plants, while in Poland this kind of plant produces 90% of the energy. On the other hand the natural gas is extensively used for heating. Climatic conditions in these places, heating and cooling load of a typical house and soil profile are used to know energetic load for cooling, heating and hot tap water. Economic analysis is also made to assess feasibility of this kind of technology.
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