Refrigeration – Structural installation – Geographic – e.g. – subterranean feature
Patent
1991-07-05
1993-07-06
Bennet, Henry A.
Refrigeration
Structural installation
Geographic, e.g., subterranean feature
165 45, F28D 2100
Patent
active
052243575
ABSTRACT:
A geothermal heat exchanger having modular tube bundles is provided in a novel heat pump system. The modular tube bundles are particularly adapted to be placed within a narrow excavation in the ground, such as a trench excavated using a backhoe bucket, which trench can be V-shaped. A heat resistant soaker hose is disposed above or about the rectangular tube bundles. The soaker hose is coupled to a water source and has a number of apertures for leaching water to the soil surrounding the tube bundles for dampening the soil around the tubes and providing better thermal heat transfer and compaction. Individual tubes of the tube bundles can be made rifled or finned for better heat transfer. A scroll compressor with relatively orbiting spiral scroll fins is provided rather than a reciprocating piston compressor. The scroll compressor, unlike a reciprocating compressor, can efficiently pump fluid in a liquid state, will start against a high differential pressure, and provides more suction for oil return from the ground coils to the compressor. Corrosion of the in-ground preferably copper heat exchanger tubes is prevented by a sacrificial anode cathodic protection system. A microprocessor coupled to a variable speed compressor controls the system and the rate of refrigerant flow. An oil separator at the outlet of the compressor discharges in a closed loop at the inlet of the compressor and eliminates oil from the heat exchanger section of the refrigerant flow path.
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Aspacher Jeffrey T.
Galiyano Mark J.
Galiyano Mike P.
Wiggs B. Ryland
Bennet Henry A.
Doerrler William C.
United States Power Corporation
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