Glossary of geothermal heating and cooling information

The Glossary of Geothermal Heating and Cooling provides definitions of many terms used within the Geothermal heat pump industry. The terms in this glossary...

A ground source heat pump (also geothermal heat pump) is a heating/cooling system for buildings that use a type of heat pump to transfer heat to or from...

radioactive decay. Geothermal energy has been exploited as a source of heat and/or electric power for millennia. Geothermal heating, using water from hot...

plants, geothermal and solar thermal energy (central solar heating), large scale heat pumps, waste heat from cooling purposes and data centers and other...

environments they are designed to heat or cool. There are many subcategories of radiant heating and cooling, including: "radiant ceiling panels", "embedded...

conditioning (short: HVAC) systems, which can both cool and warm interior spaces. A central heating system has a furnace that converts fuel or electricity...

heaters, fireplaces, and solar heating. Heat Pumps: They can be used for heating and cooling, transferring heat using refrigerant and electricity, making...

and cost savings in places like Minnesota and Maine in the United States. A ground source heat pump (also geothermal heat pump) is a heating/cooling system...

A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream, to a lower temperature...

Underfloor heating and cooling is a form of central heating and cooling that achieves indoor climate control for thermal comfort using hydronic or electrical...

enhanced geothermal system (EGS) generates geothermal electricity without natural convective hydrothermal resources. Traditionally, geothermal power systems...

are important design issues. A geothermal heat pump uses ambient earth temperature to improve SEER for heat and cooling. A deep well recirculates water...

generator. Flat-plate and evacuated-tube solar collectors are mainly used to collect heat for space heating, domestic hot water, or cooling with an absorption...

solar combisystem provides both solar space heating and cooling as well as hot water from a common array of solar thermal collectors, usually backed up...

water source cooling (DWSC) or deep water air cooling is a form of air cooling for process and comfort space cooling which uses a large body of naturally...

electrical. The heating element inside every electric heater is an electrical resistor, and works on the principle of Joule heating: an electric current...

used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid. Heat exchangers are used in both cooling and heating processes. The fluids may be separated...

used for circulation of liquids and volatile gases in heating and cooling applications such as heat pumps, water heaters, boilers and furnaces. Thermosiphoning...

rooms to massive units that can cool large buildings. Air source heat pumps, which can be used for heating as well as cooling, are becoming increasingly common...

for space heating or cooling. A similar standard, MINERGIE-P, is used in Switzerland. Standards are available for residential properties and several office...

cooling pond instead of a cooling tower. This single pass or once-through cooling system can save the cost of a cooling tower and may have lower energy costs...

buildings and in some cases also provide domestic hot water. The use of an air-to-water heat pump for house cooling has been criticised. Heating and cooling is...

solar heating, geothermal heating, heat pumps and heat exchangers. Insulation is almost always an important factor in how renewable heating is implemented...

original on 2007-04-07. Retrieved 2007-03-10. Passive Solar Heating & Cooling Manual "Natural Cooling". Arizona Solar Center. Archived from the original on...

(combined cooling, heat and power). Waste heat can be used in district heating. Depending on the temperature of the waste heat and the district heating system...

that cool by drawing air over water use the water as a heat reservoir, but if the air is dry, they are also cooling the air with evaporative cooling. The...