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Borehole Thermal Analysis for a Closed Loop Vertical U-Tube DX Ground Heat Exchanger

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The borehole geometry configuration and its sizing represent great challenges to the thermal equipment designer in the field of geothermal energy source. The present work represents a piece in that direction to avoid elaborate mathematical and computation schemes constraints for the preliminary design of the U-tube ground heat exchanger operates under a steady-state condition. A correlation was built for the prediction of the borehole thermal resistance. The U-tube diameter, leg spacing, borehole diameter, and the offset configuration with respect to the center of the borehole were introduced in the present correlation. An equivalent tube formula and borehole configuration were postulated to possess the same grout volume as the original loop. A variety of geometrical configurations were tested at different U-tube and borehole sizes. The predicted total thermal resistance of the borehole was implemented into the thermal design of the (DX) ground condenser to sizing the borehole U-tube heat exchanger. A hypothetical cooling unit of (1) ton of refrigeration that circulates R410A refrigerant was chosen for the verification of the present model outcomes. The predicted thermal resistance revealed an excellent agreement with other previously published work in this category.
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hal-03336707 , version 1 (07-09-2021)

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Ali H Tarrad. Borehole Thermal Analysis for a Closed Loop Vertical U-Tube DX Ground Heat Exchanger. Mathematical Modelling of Engineering Problems, 2021, 8 (4), pp.501 - 509. ⟨10.18280/mmep.080402⟩. ⟨hal-03336707⟩
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