| | |  | Renewable Energy | Home » » Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Guide for Planning and Installing | | | | | | | Description: | | Geothermal Heat Pumps is the most comprehensive guide to the selection, design and installation of geothermal heat pumps available. This leading manual presents the most recent information and market developments in order to put any installer, engineer or architect in the position to design, select and install a domestic geothermal heat pump system. Internationally respected expert Karl Ochsner presents the reasons to use heat pumps, introduces basic theory and reviews the wide variety of available heat pump models. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Karl Ochsner | | Paperback:
| 224 pages | | Publisher:
| Routledge | | Publication Date:
| November 19, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1844074064 | | Product Width:
| 160.0 centimeters | | Product Height:
| 231.0 centimeters | | Product Weight:
| 0.61 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 7 reviews |
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20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Not useful for DIY installJul 17, 2008
By M. Kinzlmaier
I bought this book thinking it would be helpful with a geothermal heating system I was planning to install. The book appears to be no more than a translated product guide for various models of geothermal heat pumps that the author manufactures in Germany. There were some useful equations for various heat calculations but nothing really all that useful. I returned the book.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Disappointed with quality of this bookJan 05, 2011
By MC
I am a licensed professional civil engineer specializing in water supply wells (22 yrs). I purchased this book to learn about geothermal heat pump systems, to the point of design competency. This book is basically an over view and will not in my opinion serve that need. It is extremely terse. I suggest a revised edition include many more examples and more basic explanations of the processes.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
What a waste of money!!Mar 08, 2010
By G. P.
Do not buy this book!! This book does not offer any valuable information beyond that what can be found with a 15min Google search. There are no design formulas and no valuable engineering information! If it would cost 10Euros I could maybe pay for it, but again I would not use it. It is near the top of my list with the worst books EVER!
* I am sad that I cannot rank it with negative stars, since it is consuming time without giving information!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
useless bookMar 08, 2010
By Khassi
this is actually one of the books that i really regret buying it, and this is rare to happen. it is a book you read through and you see no point and you learn nothing. the level of information included can be easily found on the internet with a simple search. Free materials found on retscreen for example is much more valuable than this.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Guide for Planning and InstallingJan 06, 2010
By W. Jackel
I pre-ordered this book before it came out and waited for almost 1 year past the print date to get it. I was very disappointed. If you have any knowledge of geothermal it is not for you. I returned the book immediately.
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