SaFEGround - Sustainable, Flexible and Efficient Ground-source heating and cooling systems
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Through the 2008 Climate Change act, the UK committed to reduce by 80% its carbon emissions. While great progress has been made so far, data suggests that reductions in emissions have been achieved through switching electricity production to greener, more environmentally friendly sources, such as offshore wind. Clearly, it is inevitable that, to achieve further reductions in carbon emissions, we need to look for improvements elsewhere, such as heating and cooling of buildings, which accounts for 25% of all UK final energy consumption and 15% of carbon emissions.
Project SaFEGround aims to provide a template for reducing emissions associated to heating and cooling through the deployment of heat pumps. These are efficient devices capable of extracting heat from a storage medium, e.g. air for air-source heat pumps or the ground for ground-source heat pumps, and this is done with high efficiency, since for each unit of electricity consumed by the system, it is usual to get 3-4 units of heat. Clearly, these are more environmentally-friendly than boilers as they require only electricity, which, as mentioned above, is increasingly being generated from renewable and low-carbon sources.
Therefore, SaFEGround will investigate how ground-source heat pumps can be coupled with civil engineering structures to deliver low-carbon heating and cooling in a sustainable, safe and efficient manner. To achieve this, SaFEGround will combine research on material science, heat pump technology, energy geotechnics, building energy systems modelling, whole-system modelling and finance, to demonstrate that ground source energy systems can play an important role in the UK's future low-carbon energy mix in a cost-effective manner.
Imperial College London | LEAD_ORG |
Arup Group (United Kingdom) | PP_ORG |
Atkins (United Kingdom) | PP_ORG |
Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe BV | PP_ORG |
isoenergy | PP_ORG |
E.ON (United Kingdom) | PP_ORG |
Hubbard Products (United Kingdom) | PP_ORG |
ENERCRET Ltd | PP_ORG |
Geotechnical Consulting Group (United Kingdom) | PP_ORG |
Leicester City Council | PP_ORG |
Cementation Skanska Limited | PP_ORG |
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | PP_ORG |
PCM Products Limited | PP_ORG |
David Taborda | PI_PER |
Abir Al-Tabbaa | COI_PER |
Alexander Michaelides | COI_PER |
Leon Black | COI_PER |
Andrew Wright | COI_PER |
Christos Markides | COI_PER |
Niall Mac Dowell | COI_PER |
Paul Sapin | RESEARCH_COI_PER |
Subjects by relevance
- Emissions
- Heat pumps
- Climate changes
- Heating systems
- Ground heat
- Greenhouse gases
- Carbon dioxide
- Heating (spaces)
- Renewable energy sources
- Decrease (active)
- Geothermal energy
Extracted key phrases
- Ground source energy system
- Source heat pump
- Carbon source
- Source heating
- Heat pump technology
- Carbon energy mix
- Energy system modelling
- Carbon emission
- Carbon heating
- Efficient ground
- Friendly source
- UK final energy consumption
- Efficient device capable
- Efficient manner
- Energy geotechnic