GEOTHERMAL HEATING

           The active development of heat and power engineering has recently led to the fact that the negative impact on the environment has increased significantly. First of all, the main part of emissions into the environment is the activity of thermal power stations, which use coal and fuel oil as the main fuel. Particularly high share of emissions from fuel oil heating plants, as they worsen the ecological situation on the territory of their installation, which in many cities is far from perfect. In this regard, there are global developments of new types of population maintenance of heat energy, while not causing significant damage to the environment. Already, many thermal power plants are transferred to gas. Now the number of such thermal power plants is sufficient and continues to increase. Their application can significantly improve the environmental situation. Particularly large their role in cities with large metallurgical capacities, which strongly affect the state of the environment. However, despite the active use of heat and power plants operating on gas, they still can not smooth those negative disproportions in the structure of providing heat energy, since the proportion of gas thermal power plants is relatively small compared with conventional types of thermal power plants. Therefore, at the present time, other types of heat sources are beginning to be used to provide heat in homes, among which the most widespread application was heat supply on the basis of geothermal heat pumps.

         Geothermal heating is a heat production heat energy on the based application of natural factors. They are the basis for the generation heat energy, which enters in the homes of the inhabitants..

The basis of geothermal heat supply – is a heat pump, that provides the generation and transportation of heat energy. In most cases geothermal heat pumps are located in the room, and in the ground drops heat exchanger. They use ground water, which, passing through the pump, is heated, them selves providing support in the homes of residents of a stable and constant temperature, which provides comfortable accommodation. Their advantage lies in the fact, what they not only provide the delivery of heat, but besides this and hot water, while this does not have a negative impact on the environment.

Geothermal heating — a fundamentally new kind of heating, that distributed not very widely, but a gradual understanding them importance for preserving ecological environment leads to the them wide application geothermal heating and geothermal heat pumps in the basis of quality heat supply cities.