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Geothermal Heating and Cooling Solutions

Energy efficient Bosch Geothermal Heat Pump Systems offers a cost effective solution for heating, cooling and hot water, by accessing the consistent temperatures of the thermal energy from the earth.

Ground temperature just below the earth's surface remain consistent year round and is a suitable for the geothermal heat pump system's heat source or sink. Naturally occurring, heat is absorbed or rejected from the earth with no effect on the environment.

Heat exchangers or ground loops are installed to transfer heat using high density polyethylene plastic piping. The loops are joined to the heat pump, then fluid travels between the heat pump and the earth.

Two options available:

Water to Air (W:A) Heat Pump: Effectively produces hot or cool air for use through a building via conventional duct work
Water to Water (W:W) Heat Pump: High performance production of heated or cooled water for distribution through a building through piping . High compatible with hydronic heating or cooling that can also be converted into heated or cooled air via fan coil unitsEC Series
Single stage EC Series with high efficiency brings geothermal technology into your residential or commercial project. Available from 2kw to 21KW in vertical, horizontal, split and counter flow configurations.

EC Large Series
Fitted with 2-Stage compressor power, bringing high efficiency into any commercial project. For projects up to 105KW in various configurations.

W:W1-Stage Series
1- and 2-stage W:W Series water-to-water modular reverse cycle heat pumps are used for hydronic heating, make-up air applications, or swimming pool heating. For applications from 7KW to 21KW, suitable for both domestic and commercial installations.

W:W 2-Stage Series
The modular design gives allows users to install units individually or in any combination to match the exact load requirement for your commercial project. Available in 35KW and from 70KW to 123KW.

High performance with cost saving results, Geothermal Heat Pump Systems from Bosch Hot Water intelligence ensures you stay warm or cool without harming the earth.

New Reasons to Take Advantage of Geothermal Heat Pumps


Geothermal drilling has been used in the U.S for quite some time now. In fact, in the 1970’s geothermal drilling was catching on in popularity due to certain advances in drilling technology. Recently, more efficient drilling processes have allowed for more cost-effective geothermal drilling projects. This form of drilling has been historically expensive due to high temperatures and hardened sites. Geothermal energy is a resource that has remained largely untapped. However, Ameridrill Inc. has just announced some new reasons to take advantage of the heat available through geothermal drilling.

For many years, utilizing geothermal energy sources was viewed as being environmentally friendly. Geothermal heat pumps have a much lesser effect on the environment and certain systems can cut greenhouse emissions by up to 40%. However, protecting the environment is not the only advantage of geothermal energy. In fact, geothermal energy sources can drastically cut the costs of both heating and cooling expenses. Geothermal heat pumps have a much lower operating cost than most traditional heating systems. Furthermore, most existing heat pumps can be easily converted to a geothermal system.

Perhaps one of the biggest advantages of geothermal heat pumps is their durability and reliability. When properly installed, a geothermal system can last upwards of fifty years. Additionally, once a geothermal energy source has been identified, the cost of hot water can be drastically reduced.

Although geothermal drilling has become a more efficient process over the years, not all HVAC installers have the experience required to utilize this resource.

The most efficient geothermal heat pump unit


"We're particularly proud that our flagship 7 Series, the first variable capacity geothermal heat pump unit available to homeowners, was recognized with the Most Efficient designation," said Tim Litton, director of marketing at WaterFurnace. "We believe that receiving this honor for yet another product reflects that the WaterFurnace brand represents best-in-class innovation and energy efficiency."

The 700A11 utilizes WaterFurnace's InfiniSpeed technology, a soft-start variable capacity compressor, in concert with a variable speed ECM blower and variable speed loop pump. This allows the unit to scale output to exactly the level needed rather than the "high" or "low" speeds found in normal systems. The capacity range is the industry's widest and can even eliminate the need for auxiliary heat.

Hybrid Geothermal Heat Pumps

Why Geothermal Heat Pumps?

 The advantages of Geothermal Heat Pumps over conventional alternatives make them a very attractive choice for space conditioning and water heating for The advantages of GHPs over conventional alternatives make them a very attractive choice for space conditioning and water heating for both residential and commercial/institutional buildings. However, Geothermal Heat Pumps often have higher first costs than conventional systems making short-term economics unattractive. This disadvantage can be magnified in commercial buildings, many of which have much larger cooling needs than heating needs, especially for buildings located in climates typical of the southern United States. For Geothermal Heat Pump systems using closed-loop vertical ground heat exchangers, this load imbalance can result in a ground temperature increase over time causing system performance deterioration. Increasing the size of the ground heat exchanger or increasing the distance between adjacent heat exchanger boreholes can postpone the temperature increase problem but will also result in higher system cost. An alternative, lower cost approach for such applications can be use of a hybrid GHP design. In hybrid GHPs, the ground heat exchanger size is reduced and an auxiliary heat rejecter (e.g., a cooling tower or some other option) is used to handle the excess heat rejection loads during building cooling operation. The extent to which the ground heat  exchanger size can be reduced in a hybrid Geothermal Heat Pump system will vary with location and climate, but it must be at least large enough to handle the building heating requirements. Hybrid Geothermal Heat Pumps can also be used or sites where the geological conditions or the available ground surface will not allow a ground heat exchanger large enough for the building cooling loads to be installed.A number of recent reports and research papers have been published that deal with both design of hybrid GHPs and operating experience with a few installations. ASHRAE (1995) and Kavanaugh and Rafferty (1997) both discuss advantages of hybrid Geothermal Heat Pumps and present design procedures. The former sizes the auxiliary heat rejecter based on the difference between monthly average heating and cooling needs of the building and offers general guidelines for integration of the heat rejecter into the
system piping. The latter bases heat rejecter sizing on peak loads at design conditions
and the difference between required ground heat exchanger borehole lengths for heating and cooling.

Summary

Based on the results from the two case studies analyzed for this review, the following observations are made.
• Hybrid GHP systems can significantly reduce system first costs even when a tower needs to be purchased. Costs can be reduced by more than 50% for very highly cooling dominated applications such as the small office building in Houston (cooling-to-heating load ratio of 24:1). For applications where a suitable tower already exists (as at the Oceana study site), a hybrid system can result in system cost reductions of more than 50% even when the building is not overly cooling load dominated.
• For heavily cooling dominated sites, hybrid GHPs can result in heat pump and system energy savings compared to full GHPs when the supplementary heat rejecter is operated enough hours to reduce the average heat pump entering fluid temperature during the cooling season.
• The authors of both case studies point out that none of the hybrid system designs they examined have been optimized. A design optimization method is needed to balance GHX size, supplemental heat rejecter size and type, control strategy, and electric rate structure to achieve lowest life-cycle or first cost designs for a given location.

 http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/pdfs/hyhgp_tir.pdf

Geothermal heat pump installations over the world

Canada
Statistical Report on Canada's Geothermal Heat Pump Industry 2011
“The State of the Canadian Geothermal Heat Pump Industry 2011 - Industry Survey and Market Analysis” has been launched by the Canadian GeoExchange Coalition (CGC)
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United Kingdom
Go Geothermal Predicts Rise In PE100-RC Pipework Installations
PE100-RC has the same properties as PE100 in terms of temperature resistance and the requirement for welded connections but crucially it offers better mechanical properties with increased resistance to both stress cracking and point loads.
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Scotland
Orkney installs geothermal heat pumps for public buildings
It is believed to be the biggest geothermal project of its kind in Scotland. Geothermal heat pumps are being used at the new Kirkwall Grammar School, Stromness Primary school, Papdale Halls, and the new developments at the Pickaquoy Centre.

Geothermal heat pump NEWS

Ministers plot to limit heat pump subsidies over cost fears.
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Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., is on the cusp of turning on what it says will be the largest ground source heat pump in the US, if not the world. The geothermal heat pump will cut the University’s carbon footprint roughly in half, the school says. It will also eradicate almost all of its $3 million annual fuel bill, but will cost about $1 million a year in electricity to run. Heothermal heat pumps – work by running water through pipes below the frost line, which is about six feet underground in Ball State’s locale. This water sits at the soil’s constant 55 degree temperature, meaning that it can be used for heating in winter and cooling during summertime.
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DESPITE a few concerns from district council, a West Vancouver home on Seaside Place won the right to install an underwater geothermal heat pump system. It's difficult to drill in a lot of the areas of West Vancouver due to rock because of that best medium of heat-transfer is water.
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Feige’s co-chairman, Rep. Paul Seaton, R-Homer, said similar geothermal projects were already being done in his district, and they might be used in more places than initially thought.In the geothermal heat pump system that became operational last May, the airport replaced $130,000 worth of diesel heat with $15,000 worth of geothermal heat , said Catherine Fritz, airport architect.
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Geothermal potentials in Moose Jaw
At least two generations the geothermal heating would prove a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly and local source of energy. While the system would require about 366 kilowatts of electricity to pump the water, the heat energy produced is about 29.25 million kilojoules per hour.
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MENA Geothermal awarded contract to repair and complete installation of geothermal heat pump system in Jordan.
MENA Geothermal was established in 2008 by its current President, Khaled Al Sabawi, to offer energy efficient, environmentally friendly, and cost effective heating and cooling systems to customers in the Middle East and North Africa region. During the same year, MENA Geothermal was awarded the Energy Globe Award, the world's most prominent and prestigious environmental prize, for its geothermal heating and cooling system at the UCI Headquarters Building in Ramallah, Palestine.

Geothermal heat pump systems - Consulting, Design and Build

Geothermal heat pump systems - Consulting, Design and Build

Hiring Geothermal Heat Pump Drilling Contractors

HVAC contractors, mechanical engineers, architects, developers, and others involved in geothermal heat pump installations should evaluate the qualifications of drilling contractors to protect groundwater and optimize heat pump system operation.

As much as 50% of the total geothermal heat pump market involves the use of vertical borehole subsystems. There are several different configurations of geothermal heat pump system installations involving vertical earth drilling:

* Open loop: single well for water withdrawal, water returned to a surface source
* Open loop: single well for water withdrawal, water returned to a second well
* Standing column: single well for water withdrawal and water return
* Closed loop: vertical borehole
* Direct exchange: vertical boreholes using concentric pipe systems.

A motivation for NGWA promoting these questions and the need to HVAC contractors, mechanical engineers, etc., is to direct them to NGWA-member or NGWA-certified contractors to do the drilling for geothermal heat pump installations. To find drilling contractors, including those who work on geothermal heat pump installations, use

Why Bosch Geothermal Heat Pumps?


Bosch Geothermal Heat Pump systems are the most energy and cost efficient systems on the market and therefore the greenest technology for heating and cooling applications. This technology uses the relatively constant temperature of the earth, which makes it extremely efficient all year long in virtually any climate.

Advantages of Bosch’s geothermal heat pumps


Environmentally Friendly
Bosch’s green technology is the most environmentally friendly way to cool and heat your home. The system has no carbon dioxide emissions or any other negative effects on the environment. Bosch’s geothermal installations reduce greenhouse gas emissions which are responsible for climate change.

Reliability
Ground loop systems have a life expectancy in excess of 50 years. Your Bosch heat pump is manufactured with rigorous standards ensuring high
efficient operation over the life of the unit. Our residential warranty offering is among the best you will find on the market.

Lower Operating Cost
Bosch’s geothermal heat pump helps to save up to 70% on your energy bills for heating, cooling and hot water because of its more efficient operation compared to conventional systems. Simple payback could be as short as 5 to 7 years and you can experience costs savings from the beginning.

Earth Coupling Options
Geothermal heat pump systems use the earth as a heat source and heat sink. In order to transfer heat to or from the house, heat exchangers (ground loops) are installed in the ground. These consist of high density polyethylene plastic pipes. The loops are then connected to the heat pump and fluid is circulated between them transferring the heat between the heat pump and the earth.

Geothermal heat punp. What are the savings?


What are the savings?

GHPs consume 25–50 percent less electricity compared to conventional HVAC equipment, so installing one is a great green home remodeling project. In other words, a GHP needs only one unit of electricity to move three units of heat compared to a ratio of 1:1 or 1:2 for other systems. GHPs can decrease energy consumption and the accompanying emissions by as much as 44 percent compared to air-source heat pumps and as much as 72 percent compared to standard electric heat. GHPs can achieve efficiencies of 300-600 percent on the coldest winter night; air source heat pumps can only reach 175-250 percent on just a cool day. GHPs also maintain an approximate 50 percent indoor humidity level, making them desirable in humid areas.

The up-front cost of geothermal as a home renewable energy source is steep. However most experts agree that you can recoup this investment in 5-10 years through lower energy bills, making it even more attractive as a green home remodeling project.

Federal, state, and local tax incentives and other programs can help offset the cost of the initial investment as well. With few moving parts, a GHP system is also durable and needs little maintenance. Many manufacturers warranty the pipes for 50 years and the pump itself usually lasts 20 years.

Growth of geothermal heat pump installations



According to the new market research report 'Global Geothermal Power and Heat Pump Market Outlook: (2010-2015)', published by MarketsandMarkets, the global geothermal installed capacity, including power generation and direct use, is expected to grow from 61,200 MW in 2010 to 120,300 MW in 2015 at an estimated CAGR of 14% for the same period.

The main driving factors in the geothermal market are environment-friendliness and lower operating and maintenance cost when compared to conventional fuels. The favorable policy and regulation framework and recent investment activities by governments and venture capitalists are boosting the development of the geothermal energy market. However, the growth in the market is impacted by higher initial cost and limited geographical availability of resources. All these reasons make Europe and Americas leading regions in direct use and geothermal power generation respectively.

The global cumulative installations of geothermal heat pumps are expected to grow from 2.94 million in 2010 to 5.66 million in 2015 at an estimated CAGR of 14% for the same period. The major countries using geothermal heat pumps are Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and U.S. The major portion .i.e. around 67% of geothermal energy available for direct use is utilized by geothermal heat pumps for space/district heating requirements.

Geothermal heat pump regulations

Geothermal heat pumps rely on the natural temperature of the earth to heat up well water before it is sent to your home faucet. There are several regulations that must be followed to use one in Virginia.

Geothermal heat pump

A geothermal heat pump is an efficient way to use well water. A geothermal heat pump pulls water from your well and heats it up while it is still in the pipes that connect the well to your house. The heat pump keeps that water hot using natural ground temperatures, so it is environmentally friendly.

Above ground casings

In Virginia, wells must extend above the ground by at least 12 inches. If you have a geothermal heat pump well that is set up on a closed loop and heated by a geothermal source, you do not need to adhere to this regulation.

Well casings

Most wells in Virginia need to be encased in 20 feet of concrete or a similar material underground in order to protect the ground water in case of contaminants. However, closed-loop heat pump wells, which keep the water within the system, do not need to be encased.

Geothermal heat pumps Vs. Solar Heating & Cooling Systems

Overview

Solar energy and geothermal heating and cooling systems have advantages and disadvantages in terms of cost, installation efficiency, seasonality, local zoning requirements and restrictions. The biggest factor is going to cost compared to the usability of systems. Solar can work without electricity, but other than that they are very similar.

Solar heat pump

Solar heat pumps work by pumping a coolant solar panels mounted on the roof. Coolant is heated by passing through the collector and then transfer to a heat exchanger. Refrigerant absorbs heat in the heat exchanger and passes through the compressor when the evaporator required airflow passes. The end result is the same as a normal heat pump. Can only heat pumps for heating be amended and used for air conditioning, refrigeration pumps do not have this ability.

Geothermal heat pump

standard parts geothermal heat pump includes a compressor, heat exchangers, air trainer and eliminate condensation on air conditioning use. All these components are usually packaged in a cabinet. "The size of the system will depend on the heating and cooling your home. Geothermal heat pumps can provide a stable domestic hot water until the pump is in the air.

Geothermal Loop

There are two main types of lines - an open and closed. The most popular type used for decades was an open. But the closed lines and their variants is increasing in popularity. Lines are the backbone of the geothermal heat pump systems. They work by pumping water from a well, which is between 100-400 meters depth online to a cold heat exchanger, which either absorb or dissipate heat, depending on the desired function: heat or cold. After the underground heat has been used then pumped back to the individual becomes better. Closed loop is the same, but the water is constantly recycled.

Distribution

Distribution of heated or cooled air is the same as a conventional air conditioning and heating units are available in most modern homes. The difference comes from the possible need for a system to reinforce the traditional engine-driven heating and cooling systems. The efficiency of solar systems are totally dependent on weather and climate at the time, while geothermal energy is more reliable, year-round system, almost regardless of outside temperature.

Considerations

The main reason for the two systems is the initial cost for installation. Solar system will be more effective for smaller houses, while the geothermal system will be better suited for large designs, leading to unnecessarily high costs for installation of electrical circuits. Another factor for geothermal power plant land surface. Depending on the size of the line that required a wide range of fields may be needed, but a plot may be too small for the system.

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