[36] proposed an experimental solar-assisted ground source heat pump (SAGSHP) system for home heating applications and demonstrated that the system can meet the space heating needs of buildings in winter. Shi et al. [37] investigated the influence of the operation parameters and well-layout ...
3.3.1. Thermal Output Sizing and Thermal Storage Previous works [136,137] demonstrate that accurate sizing of the heat pump compared to the building thermal demand is crucial to optimize the energy performance, as well as costs for the user. An oversized system works intermittently for most of...
Several studies, including References [92–98], have underlined the significance of undisturbed ground temperature, and have shown its effect on factors including sizing of the ground heat exchanger, extracted thermal power, and performance of the heat pump, among others. The undisturbed ground ...
Among the well-established, proven, and reliable RTTs, heat pump (HP) technology is possibly the most versatile. When driven by electrical power and coupled to ground sources/sinks, it is definitely the most efficient one [8,9], since one unit of electrical power is required for the exchan...