US 2010/0059198 A1Published application

System for configuring earth probes

AssigneeA&S Umwelttechnologie AG

InventorsArmin Amann, Wilhelm Sonderegger

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Abstract

A system for configuring earth probes (1) for receiving thermal energy from the earth and/or for discharging thermal energy into the earth, including a conductor system having a feed and a return line, which are connected to each other at the lower end of the earth probe (1), the system including probe modules (11, 12), which each form a section (15, 16) of the feed and/or return line of the earth probe (1) and which can be connected to each other at least by a positive and/or non-positive connection, preferably a plug-in connection, and a base piece (13), which forms a section of the conductor system of the earth probe (1). The section connects the feed line to the return line, and can be connected to the probe modules (11, 12) via at least one positive and/or non-positive connection, preferably a plug-in connection.

Claims16

Dependent claims

System for the construction of geothermal probes (1) for absorbing thermal energy from the ground and/or for dissipating thermal energy to the ground, comprising:

probes having a line system with an outgoing and a return line that are connected to each other at a lower end of each of the geothermal probe (1), the probes include
probe modules (11, 12), and a section (15, 16) of at least one of the outgoing or return line of the geothermal probe (1) is formed from each of the probe modules and the modules are connectable to each other by at least one plug connection, and
a foot piece (13) that forms a section of the line system of the geothermal probe (1) connecting the outgoing line to the return line and that are connectable to the probe modules (11, 12) by at least one positive-fit and/or non-positive-fit connection, and
two of the probe modules (11, 12) are connected to each other with a positive fit by at least one plug connection locked in a closed state.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/555,138Filed 8 Sep 2009
Priority: AT A 348/20076 Mar 2007
Published: 11 Mar 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

F28D 20/0052
Heat storage plants or apparatus in general; Regenerative heat-exchange apparatus not covered by groups F28D17/00 or F28D19/00: using the ground…
F24T 10/15
Using tube assemblies suitable for insertion into boreholes in the ground, e.g. geothermal probes: using bent tubes; using tubes assembled with…
F24T 10/17
Using tube assemblies suitable for insertion into boreholes in the ground, e.g. geothermal probes: using tubes closed at one end, i.e. return-type…
F28D 1/0475
The conduits being bent, e.g. in a serpentine or zig-zag: the conduits having a single U-bend