Worldwide Status of Closed Loop Ground Source "geothermal" Heat Pump Systems
- Key words
- direct use, ground source, heat pumps, verical loop, horizontal loop
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 1995
- Session
- SECTION 10 - Direct Heat Uses
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 3-curtis
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Abstract
In recent years Closed Loop Ground Source Heat Pump Systems have developed into a viable technology with many thousands of new installations per year. This energy technology is variously described as renewable energy, energy, solar storage, and the rational use of energy. erhaps fortuitously, these systems are commonly labelled 'geothermal systems'. For the label to remain, the geothermal industry will need to accommodate this rapidly evolving technolog within its sphere of direct use applications and promote systems on a worldwide basis. The current status of CLGSHP ,systems is .described here together with the reasons for their rapidly increasing numbers. A brief summary of current worldwide CLGSHP activity is provided in an Appendix.
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