Experimental investigation on a combined solar and ground source heat pump system for a single-family house: Energy flow analysis and performance assessment

Changxing Zhang; Elsabet Nielsen; Jianhua Fan; Simon Furbo; Qingqing Li

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.110958

Experimental investigation on a combined solar and ground source heat pump system for a single-family house: Energy flow analysis and performance assessment

Changxing Zhang^*, Elsabet Nielsen, Jianhua Fan, Simon Furbo, Qingqing Li

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This paper presents experimental investigations on a combined solar and ground source heat pump (SGHP) system for a single-family house. The SGHP system was installed at the Lyngby campus of Technical University of Denmark with horizontal ground heat exchanger (HGHE). Detailed experiments were carried out on the system in 2019 under real weather conditions and the heating demand for domestic hot water (DHW) and space heating (SH). The focuses of the investigation are energy flow analysis and performance assessment on the SGHP system. The results showed that the yearly system seasonal performance factor of the SGHP system (SPF_SHP) was 2.8, and the maximum monthly SPF_SHP was up to 5.7 in April with the highest solar radiation. Directly utilized solar energy for the combi-storage was 500 kWh lower than the annual solar heat for charging the ground, and it accounted for 36.6% of annual heat input of the combi-storage, the rest of the heat was supplied by the heat pump system that consumed 84% of total electricity energy. Different from the large fluctuations of monthly solar fraction due to solar radiation, the monthly renewable heat fraction was within the range from 57% to 83%, and the yearly value was 65%.

Original language	English
Article number	110958
Journal	Energy and Buildings
Volume	241
ISSN	0378-7788
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.110958
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by Bjarne Saxhofs foundation, the Overseas Visiting Scholars Project of Shandong University of Science and Technology (2018), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2020ME187).

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Combined solar and ground source heat pump system
Experiment
Renewable heat fraction
Seasonal performance factor
Solar fraction

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Follow up on large scale storage in Denmark, Gram
Fan, J., Furbo, S., Perers, B., Kong, W. & Nielsen, E. N. N.
Energiteknologisk Udviklings- og Demonstrationsprogram
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2018
Project: Research

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