Design and Analysis of a Ground Source Heat and Power System
In the UK ground source heat and power (GSHP) systems have the potential to make a significant impact reducing the carbon footprint of domestic, commercial and public buildings. The current project aimed to develop an optimised GSHP design for a school development in South London. Local geological characteristics and the heating/cooling demand of the building were the inputs to the design exercise. A closed-loop borehole system was specified. The output from the exercise was an optimised hydraulic network design consisting of 20 boreholes that was capable of meeting transient peak load as well as long-term sustainability over a 40 year loading cycle.
