A Schematic Diagram Showing How A Simple Household Heat Pump Harnesses Geothermal Energy. A residential heat pump generally is sized from 2 5 tons and will depend on the house square footage location amount of insulation window and many other variables. A 4 ton heat pump is capable of producing 48 000 btu or 14 kw of energy.
How geothermal heat pumps work using a heat exchanger a geothermal heat pump can move heat from one space to another. Systems that distribute heat using ducted air also contain the air handler duct fan filter refrigerant to air heat exchanger and condensate removal system for air conditioning. This animation is meant to convey in simple terms what happens in the operation of a geothermal power plant.
At this time you may want to also install an electrical back up heating element that will be placed in the supply duct to provide a second heating source should the geothermal heat pump fail.
On the most simple systems the pump is wired off the load side of the compressor relay with each leg fused typically 3 amps and a high water temp limit cutoff. This is known as the heat demand and is rated in btu or kw and also referred to as tons. Aspects such as exploration resource verification site preparation construction geothermal fluid processing and power conditioning are not shown or described in the interest of simplicity and so the. It is a companion guide to mcquay s catalog 330 1 water source heat pump design manual which discusses boiler tower heat pump design.
