Analysis Suite — Feature Overview
Professional desktop tools for ground-source heat pump system design and thermal response test interpretation.
GHE Analysis
Feature Overview
| Design & Modelling | |
| Interactive borehole designer | ✓ |
| Interactive GHE designer | ✓ |
| Regular grid and irregular GHE layouts | ✓ |
| Site background image import and georeferencing | ✓ |
| 3D borehole viewer | ✓ |
| 2D thermal plume viewer | ✓ |
| Ground Heat Exchanger Models | |
| Single U-Loop | ✓ |
| Double U-Loop (adjacent & diagonal) | ✓ |
| Coaxial BHE | ✓ |
| Inclined boreholes | ✓ |
| Standing column well (max. 1 SCW × 500 m) | ✓ |
| Simulation | |
| Hourly fluid temperature simulation | ✓ |
| Regional groundwater flow | ✓ |
| Building & ground thermal loads (hourly and monthly) | ✓ |
| Temperature-dependent or constant COP & capacity | ✓ |
| Geocooling (free or passive cooling) | ✓ |
| Domestic hot water (DHW) production | ✓ |
| Heat-carrier fluid database (Melinder) | ✓ |
| Sizing — ASHRAE alternative method (1–50 years) | ✓ |
| Energy & peak-power breakdown (HP, pumps, auxiliary) | ✓ |
| Operating-energy cost with flexible tariff engine | ✓ |
| Thermal Response Test (TRT) | |
| Infinite line source (ILS) interpretation model | ✓ |
| ANN model (trained on 3D transient FEM data) | ✓ |
| Interrupted TRT analysis | ✓ |
| Variable heating power integration | ✓ |
| Pipe, grout and geological property integration | ✓ |
| Specifications | |
| Maximum number of boreholes (standard) | 625 |
| Simulation of 625–3,000 boreholes | On request |
| Maximum borehole depth | 500 m |
| Maximum simulation period | 50 years |
| Operating system | Windows 10+ |
TRT Analysis
Feature Overview
| Data Import & Processing | |
| CSV import for TRT time series (Q, V, Tin, Tout) | ✓ |
| Optional vertical undisturbed temperature profile | ✓ |
| Interactive phase selection — circulation, heating & recovery | ✓ |
| Low-pass filter for noise removal | ✓ |
| GHE geometry & material properties input | ✓ |
| First-Order Approximation (FOA) | |
| Heating-phase infinite line source regression | ✓ |
| Recovery-phase regression | ✓ |
| Ground thermal conductivity λs and Rb estimates | ✓ |
| Critical time tcr indicator | ✓ |
| p-linear average for mean fluid temperature | ✓ |
| ANN Model | |
| Pre-trained on 3D transient FEM data (error < 10−4 °C) | ✓ |
| Standard, pulsed and interrupted TRT support | ✓ |
| Simultaneous heating & recovery phase analysis | ✓ |
| Temporal superposition for variable heating power | ✓ |
| Interactive calibration with live RMSE display | ✓ |
| Results & Export | |
| Guided analysis tree workflow | ✓ |
| Automatic CSV export — FOA and ANN results | ✓ |
| Maximum TRT duration (ANN model) | 21 days |
| Operating system | Windows 10+ |