Recharge through injection wells is a wellestablished technique to remediate and protect coastal aquifers from saltwater intrusion. In this study, it is shown that hydrothermal doublet installations can also be used to protect coastal aquifers while producing heat or cold for air conditioning. Such a method could be extremely valuable for situations where there is both a need for freshwater and energy production in coastal regions. The efficiency of the proposed approach is tested using Strack's analytical solution on a wide range of scenarios where the number of injection and pumping wells vary as well as the distance between these wells and the coast. The efficiency is evaluated through four control parameters: the relative freshwater volume, the maximum penetration distance of the saltwater toe, the thermal breakthrough time, and the percentage of injected water recycled. The analysis of these parameters computed for 343 scenarios confirms the efficiency of the method. Those results are extremely encouraging even if they still need to be confirmed through field experiments.
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