Cooling performance of a vertical ground-coupled heat pump system installed in a school building

Yujin Hwang, Jae-Keun Lee, Young-Man Jeong, Kyung-Min Koo, Dong-Hyuk Lee, In-Kyu Kim, Sim-Won Jin and Soo H. Kim

Renewable Energy, 2009, vol. 34, issue 3, 578-582

Abstract: This paper presents the cooling performance of a water-to-refrigerant type ground heat source heat pump system (GSHP) installed in a school building in Korea. The evaluation of the cooling performance has been conducted under the actual operation of GSHP system in the summer of year 2007. Ten heat pump units with the capacity of 10HP each were installed in the building. Also, a closed vertical typed-ground heat exchanger with 24 boreholes of 175m in depth was constructed for the GSHP system. To analyze the cooling performance of the GSHP system, we monitored various operating conditions, including the outdoor temperature, the ground temperature, and the water temperature of inlet and outlet of the ground heat exchanger. Simultaneously, the cooling capacity and the input power were evaluated to determine the cooling performance of the GSHP system. The average cooling coefficient of performance (COP) and overall COP of the GSHP system were found to be ∼8.3 and ∼5.9 at 65% partial load condition, respectively. While the air source heat pump (ASHP) system, which has the same capacity with the GSHP system, was found to have the average COP of ∼3.9 and overall COP of ∼3.4, implying that the GSHP system is more efficient than the ASHP system due to its lower temperature of condenser.

Keywords: Ground source heat pump; Water-to-refrigerant; Cooling performance; Ground heat exchanger (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.05.042

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