Development and Utilization of Regional Geothermal Water Resources under the Carbon Neutral Situation
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 14780
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Interests: geothermal resources exploration and utilization
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Dear Colleagues,
Geothermal water is a kind of green, low-carbon and recyclable renewable energy. The development and utilization of geothermal water resources is not only important for adjusting the energy structure, energy conservation and emission reduction, and improving the environment, but it also has a significant effect on cultivating new industries, promoting new urbanization construction and increasing employment. In recent years, many regions have increased the pace of geothermal resource exploration and development in order to achieve the carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals as scheduled, and great progress has been made in both basic theoretical research on the mechanisms of geothermal systems and distribution laws, as well as on the exploration and development of technologies such as site selection, resource evaluation and utilization schemes. Therefore, it is necessary to create a systematic summary of the progress of geothermal exploration and development and the current status of research in different regions to provide a useful reference for geothermal development work in other regions. To this end, we present a Special Issue of Water focusing on the “Development and Utilization of Regional Geothermal Water Resources under the Carbon Neutral Situation”, publishing high-quality research in this field.
We have been invited by Water to be the Guest Editor, responsible for organizing and reviewing manuscripts for this Special Issue, and we welcome all colleagues to submit original research articles for this Special Issue.
Areas of research for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Regional geothermal geological background and genesis mechanisms;
- Regional geothermal resource distribution;
- Regional geothermal resource potential;
- Geothermal resource exploration technology;
- Geothermal resource utilization technology.
Prof. Dr. Guiling Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ground source heat pump systems
- hydrothermal systems
- hot dry rock (HDR)
- enhanced geothermal system (EGS)
- genesis mechanism
- geothermal geophysical surveys
- geothermal geochemical survey
- geothermal drilling
- geothermal resource potential
- geothermal development and utilization program
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