The Status and Development Trend of Geothermal Resources
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H2: Geothermal".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: geothermal energy; enhanced geothermal system; geothermal development; energy efficiency; numerical modeling; multi-phase flow; rock mechanics; water-rock reaction
Interests: supercritical geothermal; CO2 geological sequestration; multiphase flow numerical modeling
Interests: development and utilization of geothermal energy; energy geotechnical engineering
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Dear Colleagues,
With the continuous increase in the human population,environmental pollution and the shortage of resources is gradually becoming a problem all over the world. Therefore, environmental protection and energy conservation and new energy development and utilization are becoming the development strategies of all countries. In addition, the goal of carbon neutrality and carbon peak requires major system changes in the energy supply. As a clean, low-carbon, and stable non-carbon-based renewable energy, geothermal energy is to have a guaranteed used in achieving this realization. A geothermal project utilizes a natural resource in the form of a flow of geothermal fluid as water and/or steam, at an elevated temperature, capable of providing energy to consumers in the form of electricity or as heat and cooling for buildings, greenhouses, aquaculture ponds, and industrial processes. Thus, governments and research institutes around the world have shown a high degree of recognition and attention to the development and utilization of geothermal energy.
Geothermal energy development and utilization is a comprehensive technology involving multiple disciplines, fields, and industries, including resource exploration and evaluation, drilling and completion, reservoir fracturing, tail water recharge, cascade utilization, heat exchange and insulation, corrosion and scale prevention, heat pump and power generation, ground engineering, operation management, and other technologies. Therefore, the development of geothermal resources requires the collaboration of scientists from different fields to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality.
This Special Issue aims to investigate the status and development trend and utilization technology of geothermal resources. Based on the analysis of the development status and trend of geothermal resources, it is helpful to promote the development of geothermal resources to facilitate new breakthroughs.
Dr. Yilong Yuan
Dr. Guanhong Feng
Dr. Yibin Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geothermal development
- energy systems
- geothermal utilization
- geothermal heating
- geothermal cooling
- geothermal power generation
- numerical modelling
- sustainability
- renewable energy
- heat transfer
- multi-phase flow
- geothermal recharge
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