Vertical Borehole Heat Exchanger: Report on First Experience in South America. Cooperative Work Between Chile and Argentina
- Key words
- Underground Thermal Energy Storage, Solar Collectors, Charging, Discharging
- Location
- Valparaiso, Chile
- Conference
- International Summer School
- Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
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Abstract
Chile and Argentina are countries possessing solar energy in large amounts which can be stored in the ground by means of UTES during the summer and used 3 to 6 months later during the winter. The same seasonal storage could be used to produce cold in the summer. A setup for testing this type of storages was realized at the "Solar Energy Laboratory" of the Technical University Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile. Research groups of Chile and Argentina performed and analyzed a charging
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