Study of Thermal Interference of Elements of the Underground Heat Exchanger in Electrolytic Bath

A study was made of the mutual thermal eff ect of the tube elements of soil heat exchangers. It was determined that the number of pipe elements of the soil heat exchanger has the greatest eff ect on the amount of heat infl ux from the soil mass. It is established that when placing the pipe elements at a distance of one diameter from each other, it causes a signifi cant decrease in the heat infl ux to the soil heat exchanger. Increasing the distance between the pipes reduces the thermal interference of the elements. The coeffi cients of thermal interference are found for various confi gurations of ground heat exchangers, which depending on the number of pipes and the distance between them vary from 0.621 to 0.99.