Design of high efficiency polymer probe for geothermal energy transmission and measurement

Abstract

In the effort to reduce emissions, in particular those due to energy conversion and transformation, renewal energies can give a substantial contribution in this field. For house heating, direct exploitation of subsoil energy is a matter of great interest. To extract subsoil energyfor house utilization, a plant is needed. Among different parts and devices included in the plant dedicated to conversion and transmission, geothermal probe plays an important role. It is a special device allowing conversion from thermal energy to thermal energy with different enthalpy. It operates as a sensing system without changing the type of energy. In general, there are two types of probe: vertical and horizontal probes. The article illustrates the design, construction and testing of a high efficiency vertical polymergeothermal probe. A verification of flow/fluid measurement has been carried out.