摘要:
Building heating and/or cooling methods are provided that can include continuously distributing fluid from within conduits within a concrete floor of a building to conduits within grounds surrounding and/or supporting the building while transferring air to/from the interior of the building via a heat exchanger. Building heating/cooling systems are provided that can include: a building comprising walls and concrete floors; fluid containing conduit within the concrete floors; circulating fluid within the conduit; a least one heat exchanger operatively associated within the building and configured to transfer air to/from the building; and processing circuitry operatively coupled to fluid circulation controls and heat exchanger controls.
摘要:
A fenestration assembly comprising a sliding glass assembly that slides between a fully closed position and a fully open position in which the sliding glass assembly is received into a pocket of the fenestration assembly. The pocket is covered on at least one side with insulation. The fenestration assembly may have two sliding glass assemblies. The fenestration assembly may be used in an energy efficient building system.
摘要:
Building heating and/or cooling methods are provided that can include continuously distributing fluid from within conduits within a concrete floor of a building to conduits within grounds surrounding and/or supporting the building while transferring air to/from the interior of the building via a heat exchanger.Building heating/cooling systems are provided that can include: a building comprising walls and concrete floors; fluid containing conduit within the concrete floors; circulating fluid within the conduit; a least one heat exchanger operatively associated within the building and configured to transfer air to/from the building; and processing circuitry operatively coupled to fluid circulation controls and heat exchanger controls.
摘要:
An apparatus connected to a refrigeration system and a geothermal system including: a first refrigerant connection connecting a compressor discharge line of a refrigerant circuit of a refrigeration system to a first side of a first heat exchanger, the first side of the first heat exchanger being couplable to the refrigerant and a second side of the first heat exchanger being couplable to ambient air, a second refrigerant connection connecting the first side of the first heat exchanger to a first side of a second heat exchanger, a second side of the second heat exchanger being couplable to a working fluid in a geothermal system, a third refrigerant connection connecting the first side of the second heat exchanger to a liquid return line of the refrigeration circuit, a first refrigerant interconnection that interconnects the first refrigerant connection with the second refrigerant connection, a second refrigerant interconnection that interconnects the second refrigerant connection with the third refrigerant connection, a third refrigerant interconnection that interconnects the first refrigerant connection with the third refrigerant connection, a first valve system for diverting the flow of refrigerant through preselected paths in the connections and interconnections, a second valve system for controlling the amount of working fluid flowing through the second side of the second heat exchanger, a fan for controlling the amount of air flow through the second side of the first heat exchanger, and a control system, connected to the first and second valve systems and the fan, for controlling for valve positions in the first and second valve systems and fan speed.
摘要:
Building cooling system involving circulation of a cooling liquid in a hydraulic circuit comprising at least one first tank (2), at least one second tank (4) in which at least part of one of its walls (4.1) are made of a porous material and at least one heat exchanger (6) connected in series through a hydraulic circuit, at least one hydraulic pump (8) placed between the first tank (2) and the heat exchanger (6), in which the second tank (4) is located outside the building, in which in which the system comprises means (10) of controlling circulation of liquid from the second tank (4) to the first tank (2), and when the system is in operation to cool the inside of the building, flow from the second tank (4) to the first tank (2) is interrupted and the hydraulic pump (8) circulates the liquid from the first tank (2) to the second tank through the heat exchanger (6), such that the second tank fills up.
摘要:
An in-ground geothermal heat pump (GHP) closed loop design program is disclosed for designing, analyzing, and simulating a detailed model and analysis of a proposed buildings in-ground geothermal heat pump system, including borehole length, number of boreholes, heat pump capacity, grid layout, total electric operating costs, efficiency ratios, and hybrid designs, among others. In one aspect of the disclosure described herein, the GHP design program can reliably and efficiently predict the fluctuations of the GHP equipment performance in very small increments which enables the determination of energy consumption and demand information on a specific and unique hourly schedule basis for a proposed building design, including incorporating thermal load data for each individual zone of the building. More specifically, the small increment method here can be used to eliminate overly broad approximations by evaluating GHP performance that is specific to building dynamics, constants, and variables for all of the building individual zones and the building's hourly operating schedule, thereby providing an efficient, reliable, simple, and effective geothermal heat pump design and simulation model.
摘要:
Building constructions, building heating and/or cooling methods, and/or heating and/or cooling systems are provided that can include interior conduits configured to convey a fluid coupled with exterior conduits extending through the grounds surrounding the building.
摘要:
A method of designing an optimized heating and cooling system includes: (1) simulating energy use of a virtual heating and cooling system operating a first potential thermal source or sink under a plurality of conditions; (2) simulating energy use of the virtual heating and cooling system operating a second potential thermal source or sink under a plurality of conditions; (3) optimizing the energy use of the virtual system operating the first potential thermal source or sink or the second potential thermal source or sink using neural network optimization; and (4) designing a heating and cooling system based upon the optimization of the energy use of the virtual system.
摘要:
An electrical equipment cabinet coupled to a closed loop in turn coupled to a groundwater source for exchanging heat energy with the closed loop for air-conditioning the interior of the electrical equipment cabinet. In the absence of a groundwater source a slinky loop is used as a substitute. The slinky loop is buried in the ground or located in a body of water located on or below ground.
摘要:
A closed circulating water cooling apparatus and method. The cooling apparatus comprises: an internal cooling apparatus, a plate heat exchanger (6), and an auxiliary cooling apparatus. The internal cooling apparatus comprises an internal cooling circulator pump (2) and an air cooler (3). The auxiliary cooling apparatus comprises an external cooling circulator pump (7) and an underground water pipe (8). Internal cooling water flowing through the plate heat exchanger (6) from the internal cooling apparatus exchanges heat with external cooling water flowing through the plate heat exchanger (6) from the auxiliary cooling apparatus. Utilization of the closed circulating water cooling apparatus and method allows for increased cooling capacity, when the environmental temperature is greater than the maximum inflow water temperature permitted by a piece of technical equipment, for the cooling apparatus to still provide sufficient cooling capacity, and for the equipment to obviate any water loss during operation, thus achieving the goal of water conservation.