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      <title>DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS FOR GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A prototype bridge deck heating system that utilizes heat pipes to transfer the energy between a warm water source and the deck surface was tested for possible use on some of the I-70 structures through the geothermally active Glenwood Canyon. At water flow rates around 35 GPM and temperatures of 25C, the snow cover duration on the 59 square meters of heated surface was reduced between 96 and 100% and the deck's frozen time was reduced between 85 and 95% for the five different heat pipe configurations tested; this despite the fact that over a 1/4 in. thick sludge was deposited on all the unprotected metallic surfaces exposed to the geothermal water which caused the system's thermal resistance to double. If this system is to be viable for this application, a durable, protective coating with a low thermal resistance must be found to prevent both fouling and corrosion. The thermal analysis indicates that up to two hundred of these units can be placed in series with a tolerable degradation in the last unit's performance for water flow rates above 100 GPM.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 1982 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>AUGMENTATION OF EARTH HEATING FOR PURPOSES OF ROADWAY DEICING</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report describes the results of a team effort to set forth the technology of thermal augmentation of earth heating systems and to identify the most cost effective renewable energy source to be used for this purpose. The unaugmented West Virginia earth heat pipe system, which has been in operation for 4 years, was selected as the reference design. A representative section of this design was analytically modeled. The exchange of thermal energy between the pavement surface and the environment was described by a series of experimentally verified expressions. The environment was characterized by actual hourly weather data for the average and most severe years in three climate zones. A computer was employed to follow the hour by hour performance of the West Virginia design with and without augmentation throughout the year. The results of this computer analysis permitted the formulation of an engineering approach to the design of augmented and unaugmented earth heating systems. To study shows that, for purposes of augmenting earth heating systems, the most cost effective renewable source of energy is the heat content of summertime air. The system design is such that various demand energy sources may be incorporated at a minimum cost.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 1980 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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