A REVIEW ON SOFTWARE ANALYSIS OF EARTH HEAT EXCHANGER

Abstract

Renewable energy is the best source of energy. It is abundant in nature, it’s just like a gift of god. Nowadays, heating and cooling is a major issue in environment due to global warming. A major part of energy is being engaged in such issues. So Earth tube heat exchanger is a renewable source of energy for heating and cooling of any building. An Earth Air Tube Heat Exchanger (EATHE) uses the thermal energy of the ground for the air cooling in summer and air heating in winter due to the temperature difference between the air and underground surface. With the help of EATHE we can reduce the energy consumption required for space heating or cooling. However, for determining the surface heat convection, due to lack of available methods it is difficult to make accurate energy simulation and design. Here, in this study we will perform a software simulation for the performance check up of the system. ANSYS Software will be used for simulation & modeling, under ANSYS software will use Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD Fluent) workbench as simulation analysis.