Arctic Climate Horizontal Ground-Coupled Heat Pump.

• Main Authors: Belzile, Patrick, Comeau, Félix-Antoine, Raymond, Jasmin, Lamarche, Louis, Carreau, Michel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: ground-source heat pump; absorption heat pump; horizontal ground heat exchangers; artic to subarctic climate; subarctic climate; Arctic; Kangiqsualujjuaq; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/7718/; https://www.geothermal-library.org/index.php?mode=pubs&action=view&record=1033850

Heating buildings in isolated communities of northern Quebec is done by the combustion of fuel oil. Ground-source heat pump is one of the potential technologies to replace oil furnaces but the performance of heat pumps is unknown in arctic to subarctic climate. The ground thermal properties and temp...