US20030178175A1 - Structure utilizing geothermal energy - Google Patents

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US20030178175A1
US20030178175A1 US10/381,905 US38190503A US2003178175A1 US 20030178175 A1 US20030178175 A1 US 20030178175A1 US 38190503 A US38190503 A US 38190503A US 2003178175 A1 US2003178175 A1 US 2003178175A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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  • the present invention relates to a structure utilizing geothermal energy, utilizing geothermal energy for cooling and warming a building or the like.
  • a heat exchanging duct or pipe using air or water as a heat transfer medium is extended from a basement, an underground buried pipe or the like into a building so that the heat transfer medium warmed or cooled in the ground is circulated in the building for the air-conditioning purposes or so that a motive power is extracted by an equipment to be actuated by the heat exchanges.
  • an underground constant temperature layer (or an underground portion laid in selected depth with constant temperature throughout a year) at a low temperature is utilized so that the geothermal energy is utilized by storing food or the like in a cave reaching the underground constant temperature layer, by storing goods in a hole and by covering or burying the goods in the ground, or the like.
  • the underground temperature change is caused within the range of a constant depth from the ground surface mainly by the irradiation of the solar heat.
  • the ground deeper than the aforementioned constant depth is an underground constant temperature layer, in which the temperature hardly changes among the seasons, and the thermal energy rises the higher as the layer becomes the deeper.
  • the constant depth from the ground surface i.e., the underground constant temperature layer takes a lower temperature in summer than that of the ground surface and a higher temperature in winter than that of the ground surface. This thermal energy of the underground constant temperature layer can be utilized for the cooling purpose in summer and for the warming purpose in winter, if it is introduced into a building.
  • the thermal energy in the aforementioned underground constant temperature layer is in fact an inexhaustible natural energy and is advantageous over other natural energies (e.g., a solar heat or solar light, wind power or water power) in that it is stable and usable (for introducing the thermal energy easily because it is present just under the building).
  • natural energies e.g., a solar heat or solar light, wind power or water power
  • the aforementioned example of utilizing the geothermal energy notes that advantage, but it cannot be said that the geothermal energy is sufficiently utilized. Therefore, means for effectively utilizing the thermal energy in the underground constant temperature layer are studied while using a supplementary device such as a heater or an air conditioner, or while using natural energies such as solar heat, solar light, wind power, or water power, in order to prevent limited fossil energies such as petroleum, gases, and coal from being exhausted.
  • a structure utilizing geothermal energy comprising an insulating wall extending from the ground surface to an underground constant temperature layer and buried in the ground while surrounding a building.
  • the insulating wall is buried extending integrally and continuously from the outer wall of the building to surround the building foundation.
  • the insulating wall may be buried in close contact with outer side faces of the ground exposed portion and the underground buried portion of the building foundation, or (b) the insulating wall may be buried at a location spaced from the outer side face of the ground exposed portion or the outer side face of the underground buried portion of the building foundation.
  • each of the inner and outer ventilators may be provided with a ventilating fan, or a heat exchanging duct may also be arranged to provide the communicative connection between the inner and outer ventilators.
  • a building is surrounded on its four sides with the insulating wall which is buried as deeply as the underground constant temperature layer having stable temperature fluctuations, so that the heat exchanging range between the interior of the building and the ground below the building is limited to the region just under the building, thereby to suppress such useless heat exchanges as might otherwise cause the temperature change in the building.
  • the insulating wall blocks the heat exchanges, in which the thermal energy by the solar heat irradiating the ground around the building, especially the ground surface around the building is taken through the ground from the building foundation into the building, so that the ground just under the building may be held at a lower temperature than that of the building, thereby to enhance the cooling effect of the building interior.
  • the insulating wall prevents the warming thermal energy from dissipating through the building foundation into the ground around building thereby to enhance the warming effect of the building interior.
  • Table 1 shows the temperature distributions of the individual districts of Japan in January (winter) and July (summer) within a range from the ground surface (of 0.0 m depth) to the underground constant temperature layer (of 3.0 m depth).
  • FIG. 53 shows the underground temperature distribution of Hiroshima in winter
  • FIG. 54 shows the underground temperature distribution of Hiroshima in summer. In the average temperature (in a thick row in Table 1) at Hiroshima in winter January, as seen from Table 1 and FIG.
  • an under-floor area 47 having active heat exchanges with the outside air takes 2.3° C., which is lower than that of the ground surface.
  • an under-floor area 49 having active heat exchanges takes 24.3° C., which is made considerably high, although shaded, by the heat radiation from the ground surface 43 .
  • the underground temperatures of summer and winter are substantially equal in the vicinity of a depth of 2 to 3 m.
  • the layer of a depth of 2 to 3 m can be deemed as the underground constant temperature layer.
  • a shallower ground and the ground surface are affected by the temperature change of the surrounding ground, especially by the heat exchanges from the ground surface which is subjected to the influences of the outside air. Therefore, the aforementioned heat exchanges of the ground surface, as is not exposed to the solar light, just under the building are prevented to suppress the temperature change in the layer over the underground constant temperature layer, i.e., the layer from the ground surface to the underground constant temperature layer.
  • the building to which the present invention can be applied: (1) may be constructed such that the bottom face of the building contacts directly with the ground surface in the area surrounded by the insulating wall; (2) may be filled with rubbles between the bottom face of the building and the ground surface in the area surrounded by the insulating wall; (3) may be constructed such that a mat foundation extending partially or wholly from the bottom face of the building contacts directly with the ground surface in the area surrounded by the insulating wall; and (4) may be filled with rubbles between a mat foundation extending partially or wholly from the bottom face of the building and the ground surface in the area surrounded by the insulating wall.
  • the blocking of the heat exchanges according to the present invention between the building interior and the ground surface around the building is realized by the insulating wall around the building so that the present invention can be applied to any types of the portion of the building foundation.
  • the insulating wall characterizing the present invention is based on (A) that the insulating wall is constructed of insulation panels made of a synthetic resin. Specifically, the insulating wall is constructed by connecting a plurality of insulation panels adhesively to each other, and the individual insulation panels of a synthetic resin are constructed to have a fitting ridge on one of the abutting edges to be adhesively connected to each other and a fitting groove in the other abutting edge. These insulation panels made of a synthetic resin may have moisture permeable holes for providing the communicative connection between the inside and the outside of the insulating wall.
  • the insulation panels are inferior in the air permeability or moisture permeability, and the water drainage just under the building may be deteriorated if the building is surrounded by the insulation panels. It is, therefore, advisable that the insulation panels are provided with the moisture permeable holes.
  • the insulating wall may also be constructed by connecting hollow pipes made of a synthetic resin or a metal in close contact to each other. These hollow pipes made of a synthetic resin or a metal may also have moisture permeable holes for providing the communicative connection between the inside and the outside of the insulating wall.
  • the moisture permeable holes of the individual pipes need not to be provided as straight communicative connections. Even if the moisture permeable holes of the individual pipes are staggered, it is sufficient that the insulating wall can exhibit the air permeability or moisture permeability in its entirety.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an insulation panel to be used in the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an insulating panel of another example
  • FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed by burying insulation panels
  • FIG. 4 is a top plan view showing the state, in which the insulating wall is constructed by burying the insulation panels;
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing an insulation panel of another example
  • FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing an insulation panel of another example
  • FIG. 7 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed by burying insulation panels of another example
  • FIG. 8 is a top plan view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed by burying insulation panels of another example
  • FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing an insulation panel of another example.
  • FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing an insulation panel of another example
  • FIG. 11 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed by burying insulation panels of another example
  • FIG. 12 is a top plan view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed by burying insulation panels of another example
  • FIG. 13 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed in close contact with the building foundation;
  • FIG. 14 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed at a location spaced from the building foundation;
  • FIG. 15 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed in close contact with the building foundation of another example
  • FIG. 16 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed at a location spaced from the building foundation of another example;
  • FIG. 17 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed in close contact with the building foundation of another example
  • FIG. 18 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed at a location spaced from the building foundation of another example;
  • FIG. 19 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed in close contact with the building foundation;
  • FIG. 20 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed in close contact with the building foundation;
  • FIG. 21 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed in close contact with a building foundation having an underground beam;
  • FIG. 22 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed at a location spaced from a building foundation having an underground beam;
  • FIG. 23 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed at a location spaced from a building foundation having an underground beam;
  • FIG. 24 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed at a location spaced from a building foundation having an underground beam;
  • FIG. 25 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed in close contact with a ground structure utilizing geothermal energy;
  • FIG. 26 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed at a location spaced from a ground structure utilizing geothermal energy;
  • FIG. 27 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed in close contact with an underground structure utilizing geothermal energy;
  • FIG. 28 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed at a location spaced from an underground structure utilizing geothermal energy;
  • FIG. 29 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed in close contact with a vinyl house
  • FIG. 30 is a sectional view showing the state, in which an insulating wall is constructed at a location spaced from a vinyl house;
  • FIG. 31 is a sectional view showing a relation between an insulating wall and underground temperature distributions
  • FIG. 32 is a sectional view of another example showing a relation between an insulating wall and underground temperature distributions
  • FIG. 33 is a sectional view of another example showing a relation between an insulating wall and underground temperature distributions
  • FIG. 34 is a sectional view of another example showing a relation between an insulating wall and underground temperature distributions
  • FIG. 35 is a sectional view of another example showing a relation between an insulating wall and underground temperature distributions
  • FIG. 36 is a sectional view of another example showing a relation between an insulating wall and underground temperature distributions
  • FIG. 37 is a sectional view of another example showing a relation between an insulating wall and underground temperature distributions
  • FIG. 38 is a sectional view of another example showing a relation between an insulating wall and underground temperature distributions
  • FIG. 39 is a sectional view showing the state, in which the outside air is introduced via a closed space between a building and an insulating wall;
  • FIG. 40 is a top plan view showing the state, in which the outside air is introduced via a closed space between a building and an insulating wall;
  • FIG. 41 is a sectional view showing the state, in which supplementary air-conditioning facilities are utilized through a closed space between a building and an insulating wall;
  • FIG. 42 is a top plan view showing the state, in which supplementary air-conditioning facilities are utilized through a closed space between a building and an insulating wall;
  • FIG. 43 is a sectional view showing a more practical example of the present invention.
  • FIG. 44 is a sectional view showing another more practical example of the present invention.
  • FIG. 45 is a sectional view of a building having a quakeproof structure
  • FIG. 46 is a sectional view of a building having a quakeproof structure, to which the present invention is applied;
  • FIG. 47 is a sectional view of a building having a quakeproof structure of another example.
  • FIG. 48 is a sectional view of a building having quakeproof structure of another example, to which the present invention is applied;
  • FIG. 49 is a sectional view showing an example, in which the insulating wall is extended along an outer wall of the building;
  • FIG. 50 is a sectional view showing another example, in which the insulating wall is extended along an outer wall of the building;
  • FIG. 51 is a sectional view showing an insulating wall composed of hollow pipes
  • FIG. 52 is a top plan view showing the insulating wall composed of the hollow pipes
  • FIG. 53 is a sectional view showing an underground temperature distribution band at Hiroshima in winter.
  • FIG. 54 is a sectional view showing an underground temperature distribution band at Hiroshima in summer.
  • insulation panels 1 of an synthetic resin are used to construct an insulating wall A, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.
  • the insulation panels 1 are made of a synthetic resin and have such a height as can be buried deeply into the ground 3 from the ground surface 4 .
  • Each insulation panel 1 is provided with a fitting ridge 50 on its left side edge (as located on the depth side of FIG. 1) and on its upper edge, and with a fitting groove 51 on the right side edge (as located on this side of FIG. 1).
  • the insulation panels 1 and 1 as juxtaposed, are fitted in and connected to each other.
  • the insulation panel face has moisture permeable holes 2 for the communicative connection through its inside and outside. The example of FIG. 2 is cut away at its lower right corner portion from the insulation panel 1 of FIG. 1.
  • the insulation panels 1 can be connected to each other, and its fitting ridge and groove are not essential components. Therefore, instead of the insulation panel shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2, the insulation panels 1 of FIG. 5 or FIG. 6 omitting the fitting ridge on the upper edge may be used to construct the insulating wall A shown in FIG. 7 or FIG. 8. In a low humidity district, moreover, it is needless to consider the air permeability or water permeability in the ground 3 . Therefore, it is sufficient that the insulation panels of FIG. 9 or FIG. 10 further omitting the moisture permeable holes from the insulation panels of FIG. 5 or FIG. 6 may be used to construct the insulating wall A shown in FIGS. 11 and 12.
  • the insulation panel 1 is basically buried in close contact with a building foundation (or a standard continuous building foundation having an inverted T-section), or preferably the insulation panel 1 is extended so long as to reach an outer wall 9 thereby to construct the insulating wall A.
  • the insulating wall A is vertically extended across the ground surface 4 .
  • the insulation panels 1 having the moisture permeable holes 2 are used in the buried portion of the insulating wall A, but the insulation panels 1 of the portion of the insulating wall A over the ground need not have the moisture permeable holes 2 , and the insulating wall A may be covered at its uppermost end with a water drip 10 .
  • sills 6 are mounted on the building foundation 5 within the range from the ground 3 (i.e., the underground constant temperature layer) to the ground and within the range surrounded by the insulating wall A, and the building 22 composed of pillars 7 , an inner wall 8 and an outer wall 9 is erected on those sills 6 . Then, the building 22 , i.e., its under-floor area 12 can be spaced from the underground heat exchanges.
  • the insulating wall A can be constructed with the continuous single insulation panel 1 extending from the ground 3 to the ground surface 4 , as shown in FIG. 14.
  • the closed space 11 forms an air insulating layer between the insulating wall A and the building 22 , and acts to enhance the actions and effects of the invention.
  • the insulating wall A can be constructed of the single insulation panel 1 extending in close contact with the building foundation 5 from the ground 3 to the ground surface 4 , as shown in FIG. 15.
  • the insulating wall A may be constructed of the insulation panels 1 spaced from the building foundation 5 with forming the closed space 11 , as shown in FIG. 16. In the less moisture place, moreover, the insulating wall A may also be constructed of the insulation panel 1 omitting the moisture permeable holes, as shown in FIGS. 17 and 18.
  • the present invention aims mainly at burying the insulating wall into the underground constant temperature layer or in the layer of 3 m depth.
  • the aforementioned depth cannot be desired, depend upon hardness of the ground.
  • the ground 3 is excavated so deeply as the building foundation 5 , as shown in FIGS. 19 and 20. It is, therefore, advisable that the insulation panel 1 is brought into close contact with the building foundation 5 thereby to extend the insulating wall A to a position as deep as possible.
  • the invention can be applied not only to the aforementioned continuous building foundation 5 but also to another building foundations.
  • the present invention can be likewise applied to the building foundation 5 having underground beams 52 .
  • the closed space under the underground beams 52 and in the building foundation 5 can be filled up with soil thereby to increase the stability as the building 22 and to retain the thermal integration between the building 22 and the ground 3 .
  • the insulating wall A can be constructed at a location spaced from the building foundation 5 , as shown in FIGS. 23 and 24.
  • the present invention can also be applied to the simple building 22 having no building foundation.
  • the insulating wall A is constructed by burying the insulation panels 1 in close contact with the outer wall 9 , as shown in FIG. 25.
  • the insulating wall A may be spaced from the outer wall 9 by forming the closed space 11 , as shown in FIG. 26.
  • the insulating wall A of the present invention can be constructed, as shown in FIGS. 27 and 28.
  • the present invention can be applied like above to a vinyl house 15 having ridges 16 inside a house 25 , as shown in FIGS. 29 and 30.
  • FIG. 31 to FIG. 34 show an example using the building 22 of an ordinary house
  • FIG. 35 to FIG. 38 show an example using the vinyl house 15 ..
  • the sills 6 are mounted on the building foundation 5 having the underground beams 52 , and an interior 18 surrounded by a floor 17 , a building wall 27 and a ceiling 24 is constructed, so that the building 22 having a roof 23 is erected.
  • the insulating wall A is constructed by burying the insulation panels 1 in the ground 3 while closely contacting with the building foundation 5 , such that the insulation panels 1 reach a layer 21 of 3 m depth (or the underground constant temperature layer) from the ground surface 4 through a layer 19 of 1 m depth and a layer 20 of 2 m depth.
  • the insulating wall A is closed at its upper end with the water drip 10 as in the aforementioned individual examples.
  • the insulating wall A shields the heat exchanges between the surroundings of the building 22 in the ground 3 and the 1 m depth layer 19 , the 2 m depth layer 20 and the 3 m depth layer (or the underground constant temperature layer) 21 , as surrounded by the insulating wall A, just under the building 22 .
  • the interior 18 performs the heat exchanges with the 3 m depth layer (or the underground constant temperature layer) 21 through the 1m depth layer 19 and the 2 m depth layer 20 .
  • the interior 18 is cooled in summer by the heat exchanges with the 3m depth layer (or the underground constant temperature layer) 21 having a lower temperature than that of the outside air, and is warmed in winter by the heat exchanges with the 3 m depth layer (or the underground constant temperature layer) 21 having a higher temperature than that of the outside air, so that the external (electric or gas) energies required for cooling or warming the interior 18 can be reduced.
  • the insulation panels 1 are buried while leaving the closed space 11 from the building foundation 5 , as shown in FIG. 32.
  • the insulating wall A is intended to cool or warm the interior by the heat exchanges between the interior and the underground constant temperature layer, which takes a lower temperature (in summer) and a higher temperature (in winter) than that of the interior.
  • the insulating wall A buried is the deeper, therefore, it is the more preferable. If the aforementioned actions are realized, however, the burying depth of the insulating wall A may be smaller. As shown in FIG. 33 or FIG. 34, for example, it is sufficient that the insulating wall A is so shallow as to reach the 2 m depth layer 20 .
  • the aforementioned actions of the insulating wall A are realized at least by burying the insulation panels around the building. Even if the building is replaced by the vinyl house 15 , as shown in FIGS. 35, 36, 37 and 38 , therefore, the actions of the insulating wall A reach the house interior 25 . As a result, the external energy necessary for keeping the temperature of the house interior 25 is reduced to provide an effect that the vinyl house 15 can be utilized at a lower cost than that of the related art.
  • the actions of the insulating wall extend so long as to reach the aforementioned closed space.
  • the outside air 26 is taken not directly but after it is cooled (in summer) or warmed (in winter) through the closed space 11 , as shown in FIGS. 39 and 40.
  • air cleaners 28 and ventilators 29 are arranged in the insulating wall A and the building wall 27 at the symmetric positions so that the outside air 26 may be taken in the interior 18 through the closed space 11 .
  • a duct 30 for passing the heat transfer medium (e.g., air, water or another air-conditioning medium) of the supplementary air-conditioning facilities may be extended through the closed space 11 from the outside of the insulating wall A to the interior 18 .
  • the heat transfer medium e.g., air, water or another air-conditioning medium
  • the temperature rise of the cooling medium through the duct 30 is suppressed so that the supplementary cooler can be utilized with a small loss.
  • the temperature fall of the heating medium is suppressed so that the supplementary heater can be utilized with a small loss.
  • the insulating wall A is desired to reach a depth over rubbles 33 , because the building foundation 5 is constructed, as shown in FIGS. 43 and 44, by paving the rubbles 33 at first and then by placing building foundation concrete 32 .
  • the present invention is applied to the building 22 having a quakeproof structure, in which a packed bed of the rubbles 33 is formed to surround the building foundation concrete 32 and the building foundation 5 and to fill the range up to the underground beams 52 , as shown in FIG. 45, moreover, it is advisable that the insulating wall A is constructed to surround the aforementioned packed bed of the rubbles 33 and to reach the ground 3 deeper than that packed bed, as shown in FIG.
  • the invention can also be applied, as shown in FIG. 48, to the building 22 of the quakeproof structure of this example (FIG. 47), in which a moisture proof sheet 34 is arranged between the building foundation concrete 32 and the building foundation 5 and along the lower faces of the underground beams 52 .
  • the building exchanges the heat not directly with the outside air but exclusively with the underground constant temperature layer.
  • the insulating wall A may be extended upward in its entirety by jointing upper insulation panels 35 to the insulating wall A, thereby to cover the side face of the building 22 wholly with the insulating wall A.
  • the interior 18 can exchange the heat exclusively downward to the ground 3 so that better actions and effects of the case, in which the present invention is applied, can be exercised.
  • the insulating wall A of the invention is constructed most simply by using the insulation panels, but a variety of insulating walls A can be utilized, if they are constructed to exercise the heat insulation from the viewpoint of the actions to shield the heat exchanges. Above all, it is preferable that the insulating wall A is constructed by burying a large number of hollow pipes 36 in close contact with the building foundation 5 each other. The air layers in the hollow pipes A form the heat insulating layer so that the hollow pipes can be used as the insulating wall A of the present invention even if the heat exchanges by the close contacts of the hollow pipes 36 are balanced. This results in an advantage that hollow pipes made of metal or resin can be utilized for the insulating wall A of this example thereby to construct a structurally stronger insulating wall A than that of the aforementioned insulation panels.
  • the air can be conditioned by utilizing the underground constant temperature layer while economizing in the external energies.
  • the present invention utilizes the transfer of thermal energies (or heat exchanges) for the heat balance between the interior and the underground constant temperature layer so that it is advantageous in no use of motive power and in no generation of vibrations or noises.
  • the heat balance between the interior and the underground constant temperature layer converges into the state in which the thermal energies of the both become equivalent, so that the interior or the house interior and the underground constant temperature layer do not take an equal temperature.
  • the interior takes relatively a lower temperature in summer than the exterior and a higher temperature in winter than the exterior.
  • the underground constant temperature layer (or the 3 m depth layer) in Hiroshima can be deemed to be 16 to 17° C. throughout a year, and this value is equal to the temperature of May or June. From this fact, a relatively comfortable interior can be provided without any air conditioning, if the interior temperature can be brought close to that of the underground constant temperature layer.
  • the present invention is featured by such a point different from that of the energy utilization of the related art that those effects can be homogeneously given to the building or vinyl house as a whole.

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