Minewater 2.0 Project in Heerlen the Netherlands: Transformation of a Geothermal Mine Water Pilot Project into a Full Scale Hybrid Sustainable Energy Infrastructure for Heating and Cooling

Verhoeven, R.; Willems, Eric; Harcouët-Menou, Virginie; Boever, Eva De; Hiddes, Louis; Veld, Peter Op’t; Elianne, Demollin

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.01.158

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“…Examples of this type of scheme include Lumphinnans, Fife, and Shettleston, eastern Glasgow, Scotland (Banks et al 2009). Reinjection is also practiced at Heerlen, The Netherlands (Minewater Project 2008;Ferket et al 2011;Verhoeven et al 2014). For reinjection to be sustainable, dissolved iron and manganese should remain in solution (in practice, this means avoiding exposure to oxygen); otherwise, reinjection wells can rapidly become clogged (Banks et al 2009).…”

Section: Modes Of Operation For Mine Water Heat Pump/ Exchange Schemesmentioning

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“…Among a number of mine water, heat pump systems operating worldwide can be listed: Park Hills, Missouri, USA (Watzlaf and Ackman 2006;DOE 2015), Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada (Jessop 1995;Jessop et al 1995;Raymond et al 2008), Marywood University, Pennsylvania, USA (Korb 2012), several in Saxony, Germany (Ramos et al 2015), Henderson molybdenum mine, Empire, Colorado, USA (Watzlaf and Ackman 2006), Saturn coal mine, Czeladz, Poland (Malolepszy et al 2005;Tokarz and Mucha 2013), and Novoshakhtinsk, Russia (Rostov Regional Government 2011; Ramos et al 2015). At a MW (megawatt) scale, one can mention the hospital and university heating/cooling system sourced from Barredo coal mine shaft at Mieres, Asturias, northern Spain (Loredo et al 2011;Ordóñez et al 2012;Jardón et al 2013;Banks 2017) and the Heerlen scheme, The Netherlands (Minewater Project 2008;Ferket et al 2011;Verhoeven et al 2014;Banks 2017).…”

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A combined pumping test and heat extraction/recirculation trial in an abandoned haematite ore mine shaft, Egremont, Cumbria, UK

Banks

Steven²,

Berry

et al. 2017

Sustain. Water Resour. Manag.

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A pumping test at rates of up to 50 L s -1 was carried out in the 256 m-deep Florence Shaft of the Beckermet-Winscales-Florence haematite ore mine in Cumbria, UK, between 8th January and 25th March 2015. Drawdowns in mine water level did not exceed 4 m and the entire interconnected mine complex behaved as a single reservoir. Pumping did, however, induce drawdowns of around 1 m in the St. Bees Sandstone aquifer overlying the Carboniferous Limestone host rock. During a second phase of the pumping test, a proportion of the 11.3-12°C mine water was directed through a heat pump, which extracted up to 103 kW heat from the water and recirculated it back to the top of the shaft. Provided that an issue with elevated arsenic concentrations (20-30 lg L -1 ) can be resolved, the Florence mine could provide not only a valuable resource of high-quality water for industrial or even potable uses, it could also provide several hundred to several thousand kW of ground sourced heating and/or cooling, if a suitable demand can be identified. The ultimate constraint would be potential hydraulic impacts on the overlying St Bees Sandstone aquifer. The practice of recirculating thermally spent water in the Florence Shaft produced only a rather modest additional thermal benefit.

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Section: Modes Of Operation For Mine Water Heat Pump/ Exchange Schemesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A combined pumping test and heat extraction/recirculation trial in an abandoned haematite ore mine shaft, Egremont, Cumbria, UK

Banks

Steven²,

Berry

et al. 2017

Sustain. Water Resour. Manag.

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“…The energy exchange (both heat and cold) will take place between the buildings in the same network and also, by means of the mine water, between networks located in different areas (Figure 8). The system is fully automatic and has 3 control levels: building level (based on temperature), cluster level (based on flow rate) and wells level (based on pressure) [13]. The heating network was designed to work at low temperature.…”

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Smart Thermal Grids – A Review

Stănişteanu

2017

The Scientific Bulletin of Electrical Engineering Faculty

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Abstract. In line with the Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC), EU member states have intensified their efforts to increase the share of renewable energy in energy supply. Renewable energy sources will be a challenge for the current district heating concept, requiring system flexibility both in terms of heat supply and heat consumption. Besides, they are hard to accommodate in areas with high population density, as it is the case with many towns and cities. The municipalities will have to identify suitable locations, which in turn will lead to distributed heat supply. The requirement of the 2010/31/EU (EPBD) Directive that all new buildings will have to be nearzero energy buildings will result in buildings fitted with solar collectors; some buildings will produce more energy than they can use. To accommodate all these challenges, the scientists have come up with the new concept of Thermal Smart Grids. The renewable energy will then be shared with the whole district heating grid, and the network will also be used for heat storage when consumption is lower than production. Smart thermal grids are expected to be an integrated part of the future smart energy systems, integrated electricity, gas and thermal grids.

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“…In the last ten years numerous research and commercial initiatives have been undertaken in Europe to develop abandoned coal mining fields into low-temperature resources [1]. This paper is focused on Laciana Valley District´s coal mine facilities, located in northern Spain.…”

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“…It currently uses 32 °C water extracted from underground coal workings through boreholes in the Dutch coal mining heartland. This scheme is now used to heat three hundred homes and businesses, with an estimated 55% reduction in CO2 emission compared to conventional water heating systems [1].…”

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Characterization of Laciana Valley District mine water as geothermal resource

Matas

García-Carro²,

Loredo

2018

E3S Web Conf.

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Abstract. Laciana Valley District is a coal mining region located in northern Spain. This region counts with several mining facilities, among them: eight underground mines (six mountain mines and two mine shafts) and three open pit mines. Nowadays, all the mining facilities have been closed down and are flooded. The water found inside them could be used as a geothermal resource due to its thermal properties and the proximity to population. The aim of the study is to analyze the water of the facilities located in Laciana Valley and determine its potential to be used as a geothermal resource for a district heating system. In order to achieve this goal an extensive field work has been performed, nine different mine water discharges have been chosen and several water characteristics have been selected for analysis. The parameters measured have been pH, conductivity, hardness, temperature, turbidity and alkalinity. The results have been evaluated in order to determine the fluctuations of the physico-chemical parameters throughout a hydrological year and the mining facilities have been compared between each other regarding their mine water quality. The analysis of all the information gathered in the study shows a noteworthy thermal potential in the water of the abandoned mines of the region.

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Minewater 2.0 Project in Heerlen the Netherlands: Transformation of a Geothermal Mine Water Pilot Project into a Full Scale Hybrid Sustainable Energy Infrastructure for Heating and Cooling

Cited by 110 publications

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A combined pumping test and heat extraction/recirculation trial in an abandoned haematite ore mine shaft, Egremont, Cumbria, UK

A combined pumping test and heat extraction/recirculation trial in an abandoned haematite ore mine shaft, Egremont, Cumbria, UK

Smart Thermal Grids – A Review

Characterization of Laciana Valley District mine water as geothermal resource

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