Thermal performance simulations of Earth-Air Heat Exchangers for different soils of a coastal city using in-situ data
| Autor: | Liércio André Isoldi, Jairo Valões de Alencar Ramalho, Michel Kepes Rodrigues, Luiz Alberto Oliveira Rocha, Ruth da Silva Brum, Joaquim Vaz, E. D. dos Santos, F.S. Coswig, K.R. Camargo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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geography
geography.geographical_feature_category Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Water table business.industry 020209 energy Humid subtropical climate Environmental engineering Energy Engineering and Power Technology 02 engineering and technology 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Sink (geography) Penetration test Heat exchanger Soil water Thermal 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Environmental science business Thermal energy 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. 30:224-229 |
| ISSN: | 2213-1388 |
| Popis: | Earth-Air Heat Exchangers (EAHE) work blowing the air through buried ducts to employ the soil as a heat/cold sink. Thus the thermal energy contained in the soil can meet heating/cooling needs of buildings and reduce the conventional consumption of energy. In Brazil, recent research about these devices has been done considering its south region where a subtropical climate prevails. However, there is a lack of studies addressing the thermal performance of EAHE in coastal cities, where one can find the soil very sandy and the water table near the ground surface. In particular, this paper studies numerically the installation of EAHE in three different places located in the coastal south Brazilian city of Rio Grande, where the geotechnical profiles of the soil were obtained in-situ through standard penetration tests (SPT), aiming to promote thermal performance analysis for EAHE. In the simulations presented here, the influence of the water in the soil and a shortage of clayey layers in some sites relatively reduced their performance in more than 60%. Moreover, for these sites, the thermal potential for EAHE is poorly affected by placing the ducts at depths below 2.0 m. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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