Development of an integrated building load-ground source heat pump model as a test bed to assess short- and long-term heat pump and ground loop performance

Ground source heat pumps (GSHP) have the ability to significantly reduce the energy required to heat and cool buildings. Historically, deployment of GSHP's in the cooling-dominated Texas and Southwest region has been significantly less than in other regions of the United States. The long term t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaspredes, Jonathan Louis
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
SHR
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-12-4844