Experimental investigation of the cooling performance of a ground source heat pump system in Denizli, Turkey

The ground source heat pump system (GSHP) is installed at PamukkaleUniversity in Denizli, Turkey. The U-bend ground heat exchanger pipe length of 225 m was buried in soil at 110 m depth. In the 2008 cooling season, performance coefficients of the heat pump and the system were determined in the range of 3.1-4.8 and 2.1-3.1, respectively. The values of solar radiation, external temperature, relative humidity and wind speed were measured continuously. The relations of performance coefficients of ground source heat pump according to the meteorological data including solar radiation, wind speed, relative humidity and external temperature with this experiment were revealed exactly. The results of this study fulfil the lack in the literature. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd and IIR. All rights reserved.