ASHRAE Publishes New Book on Geothermal Heating and Cooling
New Book is Complete Revision of Original 1997 Version
When ASHRAE’s original book on geothermal ground source heat pumps was published 17 years ago, the systems were used mainly in residential settings and those who used them were considered risk takers. Now the technology is much more popular and lessons learned since that time have been included in a newly published book from ASHRAE, “Geothermal Heating and Cooling: Design of Ground-Source Heat Pump Systems (GSHP).”
The new book is a complete revision of “Ground-Source Heat Pumps: Design of Geothermal Systems for commercial and Institutional Buildings,” published in 1997 and recognized as the primary reference for non-residential GSHP installations.The new version was written by Steve Kavanaugh, professor emeritus at the University of Alabama, and Kevin Rafferty, a consulting engineer from Klamath Falls, Ore. Both have spent the last 25 years focused on geothermal GSHP work.