DESIGN STUDIES ON HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL CONFIGURATION OF GROUND EARTH HEAT EXCHANGER.

In this work, user friendly software is described for the easy design of the GEHE. There are different procedures for designing the geothermal heat exchanger. Based on the different ways to extract the energy and the configurations of the GEHE system several methods are used for the design of the system. The software developed is based on two of such methods which are explained along with their applications in this paper. Results of the software along with some images of the software is also presented in this work which is compared by the help of a system which is installed in the library building of Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and technology, Murthal along with the results of the software are compared with various scholarly articles published by different researchers based on different experimental setups or the simulation results for both the horizontal and vertical systems. A proposed system for the vertical type GEHE which can be installed in DCRUST Murthal is also presented in this paper. The results show that the methods used in the designing of the GEHE in the software gives very close values, i.e., the percentage average deviations are in the range of 0.5 to 6% to the actual system for the cases considered in this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]