Over the last decade, the shallow geothermal energy sources have been widely applied in the moderate temperature heating and cooling systems as an attractive and sustainable energy source. In this paper, a ground heat source cooling system based on a novel underground  heat exchanger is proposed for cooling of a base transceiver station (BTS). In particular, the high temperature water reaches the vertical geothermal probes through an inlet conduit located at the top of the probe. After releasing thermal energy, the low temperature water leaves the geothermal probe through an outlet conduit at the lower part of the probe. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of the underground heat exchanger was developed to benchmarking the heat transfer efficiency. In the future, the proposed CFD model can be used to pave the way for designing, operating, and optimizing the underground heat exchanger.

underground heat exchanger, CFD model, BTS station cooling, heat transfer efficiency.

Received: January 13, 2021;  Accepted: February 17, 2021; Published: June 15, 2021

How to cite this article: Kieu Hiep Le, Van Thuan Nguyen, Tien Cong Do and Tien Anh Nguyen, Numerical study of underground heat exchanger for base transceiver station cooling, JP Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 23(1) (2021), 163-173. DOI: 10.17654/HM023010163

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