Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering (설비공학논문집)

The Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea (대한설비공학회)
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Evaluation of Ground Effective Thermal Conductivity and Borehole Effective Thermal Resistance from Simple Line-Source Model

단순 선형열원 모델을 이용한 지중 유효 열전도도와 보어홀 유효 열저항 산정

  • Sohn, Byong-Hu (Fire & Engineering Services Research Department, KICT)
  • 손병후 (한국건설기술연구원 화재 설비.연구부)
  • Published : 2007.07.10
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Abstract

The design of a ground-source heat pump system includes specifications for a ground loop heat exchanger where the heat transfer rate depends on the effective thermal conductivity of the ground and the effective thermal resistance of the borehole. To evaluate these heat transfer properties, in-situ thermal response tests on four vertical test boreholes with different grouting materials were conducted by adding a monitored amount of heat to circulating water. The line-source method is applied to the temperature rise in an in-situ test and extended to also give an estimate of borehole effective thermal resistance. The effect of increasing thermal conductivity of the grouting materials from 0.818 to $1.104W/m^{\circ}C$ resulted in overall increases in effective thermal conductivity by 15.8 to 56.3% and reductions in effective thermal resistance by 13.0 to 31.1%.

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