How is heat transferred between the earth and home?
The earth has the ability to absorb and store heat energy. To use that stored energy, heat is extracted from the earth through a liquid medium (groundwaer or an anti-freeze solution) and is pumped to the heat pump or heat exchanger. The heat removed from the earth is then used to heat your home. In the summer, the process is reversed and the indoor heat is extracted from your home and transferred to the earth through the liquid.
The earth has the ability to absorb and store heat energy. To use that stored energy, heat is extracted from the earth through a liquid medium (groundwater or an anti-freeze solution) and is pumped to the heat pump or heat exchanger. There, the heat is used to heat your home. In summer the process is reversed and indoor heat is extracted from your home and transferred to the earth through the liquid.
The earth has the ability to absorb and store heat energy. Heat is extracted from the earth through a liquid medium (ground water or an anti-freeze solution) and is pumped through an heat exchanger inside the heat pump. There, the heat is elevated by a cycle of compression and evaporation of a refrigerant to heat your home. In summer the process is reversed and indoor heat is extracted from your home and transferred to the earth through the liquid.
The earth has the ability to absorb and store heat energy. To use that stored energy, heat is extracted from the earth through a liquid medium (groundwater or an anti-freeze solution) and is pumped to the heat pump or heat exchanger. There, the heat is used to heat the air. In summer, the process is reversed and indoor heat is extracted from indoors and transferred to the earth through the liquid.
The earth absorbs and stores heat energy from the sun. To use that stored energy, heat is extracted from the earth through a liquid medium (ground-water or antifreeze solution), pumped to the heat pump and used to heat your home. In summer the process is reversed and indoor heat is extracted from your home and transferred to the earth through the same liquid medium. Q: What is a closed-loop system? A: The term “closed-loop” is used to describe a geothermal system that uses a continuous loop of special buried pipe as a heat exchanger. The pipe is connected to the indoor geothermal heat pump to form a sealed, underground loop through which a liquid medium is circulated. Unlike an open-loop system that consumes water from a well, a closed-loop system recirculates its heat-transferring solution in pressurized pipe. Q: How is a loop system put into the ground? A: Most closed-loops are trenched horizontally in the yard adjacent to the home. Trenches are normally four to six feet deep and up
