Greetings! I found this site by searching for info on earth-coupled heat pumps. I read the following thread with great interest:
https://terrylove.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10403
I would like to investigate the possibility of using two water wells on my property as sources for one or two heat pumps. I don't have much information on the two wells yet. One is a dug well about 3 feet in diameter and depth of about 25 feet. The other is a drilled well of (as of yet) unknown diameter and depth. We get about 40 inches of rain per year here, so the water table is fairly high. Typically a drilled well here would be 100 feet.
I am interesed in getting more detailed information about this kind of system, especially in doing calculations similar to the ones in the above thread. Can anyone suggest any forum, books, or other sources of information? I am an electrical engineer and my brother has a PhD in physics, so between the two of us we should be able to follow any well-written articles.
I would like to install my own system, but even if I had someone else to do it, I would like to know as much as possible about it just to weed out the contractors who don't know what they are doing. I have talked to a contractor and a salesman, and it was obvious that they didn't really understand how the systems worked. The salesman told me that the contractors typically just went to a seminar and learned how to install a particular system, but didn't really understand how it worked. After talking to him for a few minutes, it was obvious that he didn't understand it either.
I would appreciate any information you can provide.
Brady
https://terrylove.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10403
I would like to investigate the possibility of using two water wells on my property as sources for one or two heat pumps. I don't have much information on the two wells yet. One is a dug well about 3 feet in diameter and depth of about 25 feet. The other is a drilled well of (as of yet) unknown diameter and depth. We get about 40 inches of rain per year here, so the water table is fairly high. Typically a drilled well here would be 100 feet.
I am interesed in getting more detailed information about this kind of system, especially in doing calculations similar to the ones in the above thread. Can anyone suggest any forum, books, or other sources of information? I am an electrical engineer and my brother has a PhD in physics, so between the two of us we should be able to follow any well-written articles.
I would like to install my own system, but even if I had someone else to do it, I would like to know as much as possible about it just to weed out the contractors who don't know what they are doing. I have talked to a contractor and a salesman, and it was obvious that they didn't really understand how the systems worked. The salesman told me that the contractors typically just went to a seminar and learned how to install a particular system, but didn't really understand how it worked. After talking to him for a few minutes, it was obvious that he didn't understand it either.
I would appreciate any information you can provide.
Brady