Abstract:To bury absorber tubes in diaphragm wall as heat exchanger is a new developing direction of ground source heat pump technology. However, the researches on the design method of heat exchangers embedded in diaphragm walls are so far relatively rare. According to the heat transfer models of heat exchangers in diaphragm walls and the flowing temperature field inside heat exchangers, a calculation method of variable heat exchange capacity of heat exchangers in diaphragm walls and temperature of outlet water was proposed. The regression equations of the heat exchange rate and the highest temperature of outlet water while cooling load of overground building reaches maximum were obtained based on orthogonal analysis. On these bases, an optimization design method of heat exchangers in diaphragm walls was presented, which may be used to get the optimum parameters of heat exchangers according to the limits of highest temperature of outlet water, length of a set of heat exchangers, as well as the width of a breadth of diaphragm wall. The optimization method was also applied to optimize the heat exchangers in diaphragm walls of Shanghai Museum of Natural History. The analyzed results indicate that the proposed optimization method is simple, and easy to use by designers.