System and method for geothermal conduit loop in-ground installation and soil penetrating head therefor

a conduit loop and conduit technology, applied in the field of geothermal, inground, conduit system, can solve the problems of high installation cost, high installation cost, and inability to exchange with the surrounding soil

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-06-10
DESMEULES ALAIN
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[0005]It is a feature of the present invention to provide a geothermal in-ground conduit system a...

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Because the conduits are closely spaced and located within a hole bored in rock or in tubes, the heat exchange with the surrounding soil is poor and consequently it is often necessary to have to bore many holes and install many pipes to extr...

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[0047]Referring now to the drawings, and more particularly to FIG. 1, there is shown a schematic illustration of a building structure 10, herein a residential home, equipped with the geothermal in-ground conduit system 11 of the present invention. Essentially the system comprises of at least one, herein a plurality of flexible tubing loops 12, each loop being connected in series to form a closed loop conduit circuit which is connected to a thermo pump 13 adapted to circulate a heat exchange liquid within the circuit to extract heat from the soil 14 surrounding the loops for heating the building 10. The pump 13 is conveniently installed inside the building structure 10 or an attached structure 10. By reversing the operation of the pump 13, heat from inside the building can be cooled by heat exchanging the heat with the heat exchange liquid and circulating into the earth where the soil surrounding the loop cools the heat exchange liquid within the tube thereby extracting heat therefro...

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A geothermal in-ground conduit system and a method of constructing and installing same are described. The system comprises at least one loop of flexible tubing adapted to convect a heat exchange liquid therein. The loop has a lower end section and opposed spaced-apart elongated side sections communicating with one another. The lower end section is retained in a soil penetrating head. The soil penetrating head has a leading soil penetrating and ramming face formation. A force transmitting shaft is engageable with the soil penetrating head for transmitting a pushing force against the soil penetrating head to displace same in the soil while pulling the loop and guiding the loop into the soil as the penetrating face forms passages for permanent burial of at least a major portion of the loop together with the soil penetrating head, or the soil penetrating head can be retracted.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]A geothermal, in-ground, conduit system and a method of constructing and installing same, to capture thermal energy stored in soil, are described.BACKGROUND ART[0002]With the high cost of electricity and gas, more and more interest is directed to the use of other sources of energy and in recent years particular attention has been given to tapping the geothermal energy stored in the ground. Such energy is renewable as it comes from the sun, but more important such energy does not produce any harmful gas emission which is released in the atmosphere as is the case with combustible products. The use of such energy also results in a cost-saving to heat and cool a building structure. It has been calculated that by using geothermal energy, as opposed to combustible energy, an average house prevents the emission of 2.5 to 5 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, each year. Accordingly, there is a need to improve the technology to extract this geothermal energy and ...

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IPC IPC(8): F24J3/08E21B10/40E21B7/20F24T10/15
CPCE21B7/205F03G7/04Y02E10/125F24J2003/088F25B30/06F24J3/083F24T2010/53F24T10/15Y02E10/10
Inventor DESMEULES, ALAIN
Owner DESMEULES ALAIN
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