xviii, 526 p. ; 26 cm.

Machine generated contents note: 1.An Introduction -- 1.1.Who should read this book? -- 1.2.What will this book do and not do? -- 1.3.Why should you read this book? -- 1.4.Thermogeology and hydrogeology -- 2.Geothermal Energy -- 2.1.Geothermal energy and ground source heat -- 2.2.Lord Kelvin's condu...

Contents note continued: 3.3.The temperature of the ground -- 3.4.Insolation and atmospheric radiation -- 3.5.Cyclical temperature signals in the ground -- 3.6.Geothermal gradient -- 3.7.Human sources of heat in the ground -- 3.8.Geochemical energy -- 3.9.The heat energy budget of our subsurface res...

Contents note continued: 5.Heat Pumps and Thermogeology: A Brief History and International Perspective -- 5.1.Refrigeration before the heat pump -- 5.2.The overseas ice trade -- 5.3.Artificial refrigeration: who invented the heat pump? -- 5.4.The history of the GSHP -- 5.5.The global energy budget:...

Contents note continued: 7.4.Closed-loop systems -- 7.5.Domestic hot water by ground source heat pumps? -- 7.6.Heating and cooling delivery in complex systems -- 7.7.Heat from ice -- 8.The Design of Ground water-Based Open-Loop Systems -- 8.1.Common design flaws of open-loop groundwater systems -- 8...

Contents note continued: 9.Pipes, Pumps and the Hydraulics of Closed-Loop Systems -- 9.1.Our overall objective -- 9.2.Hydraulic resistance of the heat exchanger -- 9.3.The hydraulic resistance of pipes -- 9.4.Acceptable hydraulic losses -- 9.5.Hydraulic resistances in series and parallel -- 9.6.An e...

Contents note continued: 11.1.Principles of operation and important parameters -- 11.2.Depth of burial -- 11.3.Loop materials and carrier fluids -- 11.4.Ground conditions -- 11.5.Areal constraints -- 11.6.Geometry of installation -- 11.7.Modelling horizontal ground exchange systems -- 11.8.Earth tub...

Contents note continued: 14.2.Simulating closed-loop arrays with balanced loads -- 14.3.A case study of a balanced scheme: car showroom, Bucharest -- 14.4.Balancing loads -- 14.5.Deliberate thermal energy storage - closed-loop borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) -- 14.6.Aquifer thermal energy sto...

Contents note continued: 16.4.Geotechnical risks -- 16.5.Contamination risks -- 16.6.Geochemical risks -- 16.7.Microbiological risks -- 16.8.Excavation and drilling risks -- 16.9.Decommissioning of boreholes -- 16.10.Promoting technology: subsidy -- 16.11.The final word.