Features

GHEtool Cloud is built to meet today’s geothermal engineering challenges, integrating state-of-the-art methods that provide unprecedented accuracy and reliability. With insights from the most recent scientific models and real-world requirements, our tool offers a powerful suite of features that streamline borefield design, optimize efficiency, and enhance decision-making.

If you want to learn more about geothermal design of the different methodologies inside of GHEtool Cloud, you can visit our knowledge base.

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Key features

What makes GHEtool unique?

Cloud based

Available for all bundles

Since GHEtool runs in the cloud, we are the first tool that you can use on Windows, Mac OS and Linux based systems! All calculations take place on our dedicated servers, so your interface won’t even blink when you start a heavy calculation.

Custom reporting

Available with all bundles

Reporting is important. Next to our default reporting (view example) we give you the opportunity to customize your report template with your logo, colours and general terms (view example).

Pressure drop calculation

Available for all bundles

Next to thermal design, also the hydraulic design of borefield is important. To make your life easier, every calculations will, next to the borehole thermal resistance and Reynolds number, also give you the pressure drop per borehole.

Combine active & passive cooling

Available starting from "Design" bundle

Did you every wonder if it is possible to combine active and passive cooling on a geothermal borefield? Yes, it is! With GHEtool Cloud we offer you two methodologies to intelligently calculate the ground temperature response when using both active and passive cooling on the same borefield.

Detailed borefield design

Available starting from "design" bundle

We do not work with preconfigured borefields, but we let you design it the way you want! We added dense borefields to give you the most boreholes per unit of area, but you can even import boreholes on a coordinate level, coming from a GIS or CAD-software.

Hybrid system design

Available starting from "Optimisation" bundle

Complex projects require advanced methods for the optimisation of the borefield design. With GHEtool, you can design your borefield as being part of a hybrid system, next to other sources of heating and cooling, making this the last geothermal design tool you’ll ever need.

Multi year data

Available with "optimisation" bundle

Big projects are often done in multiple phases. With GHEtool, you can import hourly and monthly loads for multiple years, so you can identify the ground temperature evolution at every stage of your masterplan.

Ground layers

Available starting from "Design" bundle

Looking for the most detailed ground model for your design? Within GHEtool you have the possibility to add your ground data on a layer-by-layer basis for the most accurate temperature calculations.

What's included

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1. Optimisation bundle = Ideal for complex geothermal projects or master planning. (€249 / month or €979/project)
2. Design bundle = Ideal for the detailed design of most geothermal projects. (€129 / month or €449/project)
3. Essentials bundle = Ideal for quick calculations with limited information. (€69 / month or €249/project)

	Optimisation	Design	Essentials
Unlimited scenarios
Unlimited boreholes
Different units
Monthly load resolution (absolute/relative)
Domestic hot water demand
Different start months
Geothermal and building loads
Dynamic borehole thermal resistance calculation
Pressure drop calculation
Separatus heat exchanger (learn about Separatus)
Hourly load resolution
Borefield by coordinate
Import borefield coordinates
Multiple ground layers
Export temperature profile
Switch from active to passive cooling in fixed months
Multi-year load input (monthly and hourly)
Simulate with phased project
Intelligent switching from active to passive cooling
Optimise geothermal power
Maximise geothermal energy
Hybridise system with maximum geothermal power
Design hybrid system with active and passive cooling
Export optimised load
Insightful graphs on geothermal cooling performance

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One integrated network

A network of tools

The open-source community behaves like a web, where all different tools and pieces of code are interconnected into one vast network of intercompatible code. GHEtool is no different. For all its ground temperature responses of the borefield for example, it uses pygfunction. For the fluid properties, it uses SecondaryCoolantProps. Since GHEtool is built using these code bases, it can easily be extended to include other features of these two previous packages and implement innovations faster.

API via Python's PIP install

Being part of that open-source community, we also have an API available so our software itself is easily accessible via Python’s Pip or conda install and easy to integrate within existing systems. This API contains all community features. This is a very conscious choice since an API can facilitate for academia the development of new methods and therefore expand the knowledge within the field.

Professional users can use the API of GHEtool Cloud. If you’re interested, you can contact us to discuss your specific project.

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Testimonials

Some reviews of our loyal users

The GHEtool is very user-friendly. I use it for a quick screening but also for sizing complex borefields.
It is really easy to compare different scenarios which leads to quick decision making.

GHEtool is a useful and reliable tool to quickly design and optimize borefields.
I like that I can compare different configurations. It’s very intuitive and has lot’s of options.

"Useful tool to look for optimizations of borefields.
Compare different configurations easily and quickly with each other."

“I like to use GHEtool because it is intuitive end easy to use.
Furthermore, I like its extendability thanks to the
open-source nature of GHEtool.”

Designing the ground heat exchanger properly is crucial for our analysis, but there is a lack of commercial software that meets our standards for accuracy and conformity to ASHRAE guidelines. Fortunately, I found GHEtool, an excellent open-source tool with user-friendly features. It is accurate and fast and helped me design the ground heat exchanger for my target facility's HVAC system. The best part is its well-written Python code and GUI, making it easy to use. I am excited for future improvements in GHEtool.

"GHEtool is reliable and fast. The Python setup is easy to integrate for your own use.
The code is well written and can be well understood.
The tool is our favourite for configuring a borefield for the purpose of sector-coupled district planning."