Abstract
Typical houses located in Eastern Canada generally require a 160 m deep vertical closed-loop heat exchanger for efficient ground-source heat pump systems. Borehole drilling costs for such ground heat exchangers are still relatively high. One of the concepts that could potentially reduce these costs is the standing column system, with or without groundwater bleeding. Such a system has been successfully validated in moderate climates for relatively short periods of operation in the heating mode. The scope of this article is to determine the reliability of residential standing column heat pumps without bleed operating in extreme cold climate conditions, i.e. running in the heating mode continuously or intermittently over indefinite periods of time. The analyses and tests indicate that standing column wells are not appropriate for use with ground-source heat pumps in extreme cold climates unless some groundwater bleed is employed.
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