TY  - JOUR
A1  - Peere, Wouter
A1  - Blanke, Tobias
ED  - Vernon, Chris
T1  - GHEtool: An open-source tool for borefield sizing in Python
JF  - Journal of Open Source Software
N2  - GHEtool is a Python package that contains all the functionalities needed to deal with borefield design. It is developed for both researchers and practitioners. The core of this package is the automated sizing of borefield under different conditions. The sizing of a borefield is typically slow due to the high complexity of the mathematical background. Because this tool has a lot of precalculated data, GHEtool can size a borefield in the order of tenths of milliseconds. This sizing typically takes the order of minutes. Therefore, this tool is suited for being implemented in typical workflows where iterations are required. 

GHEtool also comes with a graphical user interface (GUI). This GUI is prebuilt as an exe-file because this provides access to all the functionalities without coding. A setup to install the GUI at the user-defined place is also implemented and available at: https://www.mech.kuleuven.be/en/tme/research/thermal_systems/tools/ghetool.
KW  - geothermal
KW  - energy
KW  - borefields
KW  - sizing
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.04406
SN  - 2475-9066
VL  - 7
IS  - 76
SP  - 1
EP  - 4, 4406
ER  -