TY - JOUR
TI - Experimental investigation on the effect of soil type to the ground source heat pump’s performance and energy consumption
AU - Acar Bahadır
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2020
VL - 24
IS - 2
SP - 843
EP - 852
PT - Article
AB - In the present study an experimental investigation is carried out to predict  the performance of ground source heat pump systems with using different soil  type under Karabük prevailing conditions. A series of experiments were  conducted on designed and produced experimental test rig. This study  examines the effect of five different soil types on the performance and  energy consumption of a heat pump. The experimental analysis showed that the  evaporator capacity provided by sand was 46% and 42% higher than the  capacity provided by red soil at the air flow rates of 0.087 kg/s and 0.015  kg/s, respectively. In terms of the condenser capacity, sand provided 46%  and 30% higher capacity than red soil at the air flow rates of 0.087 kg/s  and 0.015 kg/s, respectively. On the other hand, red soil consumed 8% and 6%  less energy than sand at the air flow rates of 0.087 kg/s and 0.015 kg/s.  The capacities provided by other soil types and their energy consumption  ranged between these values. In terms of the COP values, red soil provided  6% higher performance than sand and humus soil at the air flow rates of  0.087 kg/s and 0.015 kg/s. The performance values obtained with other soil  types ranged between these values.