Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5479650 Journal of Cleaner Production 2017 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
A new renewable and carbon-free heat energy collection system is introduced in this paper for both urban and rural water areas. Its operation principle rests on the annual renewal of heat energy at the sediment layer under a water body. Thus it is called as sediment heat energy collection system. It has some resemblance with other heat collection systems, and the most important points of these resemblances and differences are discussed in this paper. Several other aspects of sediment and water-area-related energy production are suggested by earlier studies and four of them are reviewed and compared to the suggested system. The sediment heat energy collection system has been installed 2008 for a small district to provide heating/cooling and hot service water as well. The performance analysis of the installed system includes a measure for sediment temperature and consumption of electricity, and user experiences prove the validity of the method.
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