Numerical Analysis of Enhanced Conductive Deep Borehole Heat Exchangers
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Energy and Power, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK
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Earth Sciences Division 90-1116, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 95720, USA
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James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G13 8QQ, UK
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Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6918; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126918
Received: 12 May 2021 / Revised: 11 June 2021 / Accepted: 13 June 2021 / Published: 19 June 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Simulations and Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems)
Geothermal energy is a reliable and mature energy source, but it represents less than 1% of the total renewable energy mix. While the enhanced geothermal system (EGS) concept faces technical validation challenges and suffers from public acceptance issues, the development of unconventional deep-well designs can help to improve their efficiency and reliability. Modelling single-EGS-well designs is key to assessing their long-term thermal performances, particularly in unconventional geological settings. Numerical results obtained with the T2WELL/EOS1 code have been validated with available experimental data from a deep borehole heat exchanger (DBHE), where a temperature of 358
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Renaud T, Pan L, Doran H, Falcone G, Verdin PG. Numerical Analysis of Enhanced Conductive Deep Borehole Heat Exchangers. Sustainability. 2021; 13(12):6918. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126918
Chicago/Turabian StyleRenaud, Theo, Lehua Pan, Hannah Doran, Gioia Falcone, and Patrick G. Verdin 2021. "Numerical Analysis of Enhanced Conductive Deep Borehole Heat Exchangers" Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6918. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126918
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