LAPSE:2023.7071
Published Article
LAPSE:2023.7071
One-Year Monitoring of a Ground Heat Exchanger Using the In Situ Thermal Response Test: An Experimental Approach on Climatic Effects
February 24, 2023
The use of renewable energies, and of geothermal energy in particular, is increasingly being applied in Germany and Europe for the development of new residential districts. The use of geothermal borehole heat exchangers (BHE), in combination with ground-source heat pumps (GSHP), represents an important part of shallow geothermal systems, which are used, among other systems, in urban areas due to their small space requirements. Over the course of planning BHE systems, performance must be determined via the parameters of thermal conductivity, thermal capacity, undisturbed ground temperature, and borehole thermal resistance. These can be identified by the experimental approach known as thermal response testing (TRT). The thermal parameters change due to the influences of the seasonal temperature fluctuations that take place in the ground. In this paper, a pilot double-U BHE heat exchanger field with a depth of 120 m was investigated from this perspective. TRT was carried out using monthly measurements taken over the period of one year using an electrically powered mobile TRT device. The evaluation of the individual tests was carried out using the line-source, moving-line-source, and cylinder-source theories. Our results show that the season in which TRT was implemented had an influence on the determined thermal parameters, with better thermal conditions being obtained in winter months. This is especially visible for thermal conductivity, with monthly deviations of 0.1 W/(m∙K), independent of the evaluation approaches used.
Keywords
borehole heat exchanger, heat capacity, monitoring, seasonal temperature influence, thermal analysis, thermal conductivity, thermal response test
Suggested Citation
Suft O, Bertermann D. One-Year Monitoring of a Ground Heat Exchanger Using the In Situ Thermal Response Test: An Experimental Approach on Climatic Effects. (2023). LAPSE:2023.7071
Author Affiliations
Suft O: GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Chair of Geology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 5, 91054 Erlangen, Germany [ORCID]
Bertermann D: GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Chair of Geology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 5, 91054 Erlangen, Germany [ORCID]
Journal Name
Energies
Volume
15
Issue
24
First Page
9490
Year
2022
Publication Date
2022-12-14
Published Version
ISSN
1996-1073
Version Comments
Original Submission
Other Meta
PII: en15249490, Publication Type: Journal Article
Record Map
Published Article

LAPSE:2023.7071
This Record
External Link

doi:10.3390/en15249490
Publisher Version
Download
Files
[Download 1v1.pdf] (3.1 MB)
Feb 24, 2023
Main Article
License
CC BY 4.0
Meta
Record Statistics
Record Views
59
Version History
[v1] (Original Submission)
Feb 24, 2023
 
Verified by curator on
Feb 24, 2023
This Version Number
v1
Citations
Most Recent
This Version
URL Here
https://psecommunity.org/LAPSE:2023.7071
 
Original Submitter
Auto Uploader for LAPSE
Links to Related Works
Directly Related to This Work
Publisher Version