Transient heat transfer in a coaxial borehole heat exchanger

Abstract
Ground-source heat pumps often use vertical boreholes to exchange heat with the ground. A
transient heat transfer model has been developed for a thermal response test on a pipe-in-pipe
coaxial borehole heat exchanger. The analytical model calculates the vertical temperature
profiles in the fluid flowing through the pipes, which are coupled to the surrounding grout and
ground. The model is verified against measured vertical temperature profiles in the circulating
fluid during a distributed thermal response test. The comparison with measured data indicates
that the proposed model gives a more accurate estimate of the borehole thermal resistance than
the conventional analytical model that uses a mean temperature approximation. The model
demonstrates how strongly the shapes of the temperature profiles are dependent on the thermal
resistance of the internal pipe wall and the flow direction.


GANESH
S7 ME
Roll No. 16