Realistic simulation of an aquifer thermal energy storage: Effects of injection temperature, well placement and groundwater flow

Yapparova, Alina; Matthäi, Stephan; Driesner, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2014.09.018

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“…where a is parallel plate fracture aperture. Combining Darcy's law with a mass‐based continuity equation leads to the transient fluid pressure equation (e.g., Yapparova et al, )

((), ((), 1 - ϕ) ρ_{f} β_{f} + ϕ ρ_{r} β_{r}) \frac{\partial p}{\partial t} = \nabla \cdot ((), ρ_{f} \frac{k}{μ_{f}} ((), \nabla p - ρ_{f} bold-italicg)) - {ϕ \frac{\partial ρ_{f}}{\partial t}|}_{p = const},

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“…This system of equations can be decomposed into a parabolic (diffusive) and a hyperbolic (advective) part, solved sequentially using an operator splitting technique, described in Coumou et al (2006) and Yapparova et al (2014). We make use of the Complex Systems Modeling Platform, CSMP++ (Matthai et al, 2007), and a hybrid finite element (FE)-finite volume (FV) scheme (Geiger et al, 2004).…”

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Heat and Fluid Transport Induced by Convective Fluid Circulation Within a Fracture or Fault

Patterson¹,

Driesner²,

Matthäi

et al. 2018

JGR Solid Earth

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Natural water convection in subvertical fractures, fracture zones, or faults can perturb the temperature field around the fracture and enhance and focus vertical heat flow within. We investigate, by means of numerical simulation, the effects of convection in a deeply buried vertical fracture zone. Fracture zone transmissivity, defined as permeability times thickness of the permeable region, is found to be the primary control on convection style rather than fracture zone thickness or permeability alone. In an impermeable host rock, the convection‐induced thermal anomaly propagates solely via conduction, diminishing away from the fracture. Convective heat flow increases with fracture transmissivity up to ~10−8 m3, when a plateau in convective heat flow is reached, constrained by fracture size and the host rock's thermal conductivity. Permeable host rocks modify these results significantly. In a moderately permeable host rock (10−14 m2), convection in the fracture induces non‐Rayleigh fluid convection, while thermal effects and fluid exchange between host rock and fracture remain moderate. If the host rock is sufficiently permeable to allow porous medium Rayleigh convection to occur (10−13 m2), the convection patterns within the fracture are overprinted by the host's convective patterns. Fluid exchange between the fracture and the rock will be significant. Our findings provide insight into how thermal anomalies in the uppermost crust may relate to locally enhanced heat flow from convection in nonoutcropping fractures below. Furthermore, the results for permeable host rocks provide evidence for previously inferred hydrologic scenarios for the formation of certain hydrothermal, vein‐type mineral deposits.

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“…where a is parallel plate fracture aperture. Combining Darcy's law with a mass‐based continuity equation leads to the transient fluid pressure equation (e.g., Yapparova et al, )

((), ((), 1 - ϕ) ρ_{f} β_{f} + ϕ ρ_{r} β_{r}) \frac{\partial p}{\partial t} = \nabla \cdot ((), ρ_{f} \frac{k}{μ_{f}} ((), \nabla p - ρ_{f} bold-italicg)) - {ϕ \frac{\partial ρ_{f}}{\partial t}|}_{p = const},

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: 1002/2017jb015363mentioning

confidence: 99%

Heat and Fluid Transport Induced by Convective Fluid Circulation Within a Fracture or Fault

Patterson¹,

Driesner²,

Matthäi

et al. 2018

JGR Solid Earth

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“…At present, the HYDROTHERM code of the USGS Ingebritsen 1994, 1997;Kipp et al 2008), the Complex Systems Modeling Platform (CSMP++) (Matthaï 2014;Matthaï et al 2007) and a module of THOUGH2, iTOUGH2-EOS1sc (Magnusdottir and Finsterle 2015) are able to perform such simulations routinely. As discussed by Ingebritsen et al (2010), CSMP++ presents the advantages of dealing with multiphase flow and geometrically complex geological structures through unstructured grids (Paluszny et al 2007;Patterson et al 2018;Yapparova et al 2014) and elaborates a coupled Control Volume-Finite Element resolution scheme (Weis et al 2014), whereas HYDROTHERM performs computations on structured grids with a finite difference approach (Hayba and Ingebritsen 1994;Kipp et al 2008). Both codes have provided essentially identical results for similar model setups except for minor discretization-specific differences (Weis et al 2014).…”

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Numerical modeling of the geothermal hydrology of the Volcanic Island of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe

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Basse-Terre island in Guadeloupe (French West Indies) is part of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc and has good potential for high-enthalpy geothermal resources (Laplaige et al. 2013). A geothermal plant was installed in 1984 at the Bouillante site on the island's west coast (Jaud and Lamethe 1985), where surface hot springs had indicated a possible high-enthalpy resource. This plant has now a production capacity of 15 MWe. The rest of the island, however, remained largely unexplored for geothermal resources. In recent years, several projects have been launched to determine the potential of other targets

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“…Therefore, rational arrangement of well groups should be further considered in the future to achieve a more advantageous effect of groundwater horizontal downstream in practical engineering. Nevertheless, Yapparova et al [177] found that ground water does not affect the storage efficiency significantly when double concrete walls are provided as thermal insulator. Another research hotspot is on the thermal interference between hot and cold wells in an aquifer or in a number of aquifers in an area on the storage efficiency.…”

Section: Aquifermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kim et al [178] numerically found that thermal interference grows as the borehole distance decreases, as the hydraulic conductivity increases, and as the pumping/ injection rate increases. Yapparova et al [177] reported that storage efficiency increases with the distance between injection and production wells and decreases with increasing injection temperature. Meanwhile, Bakr et al [179] investigated 19 aquifer TES systems with a total of 76 functioning wells installed in an area of 3.8 km 2 in the Netherlands.…”

Section: Aquifermentioning

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Energy Storage by Sensible Heat for Buildings

Fan¹

2018

Handbook of Energy Systems in Green Buildings

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This chapter presents a state-of-the-art review on the available thermal energy storage (TES) technologies by sensible heat for building applications. After a brief introduction, the basic principles and the required features for desired sensible heat storage are summarized. Then, material candidates and recent advances on sensible heat or cold storage adapted for building application are discussed, each with its own characteristics, advantages, and limitations. A large section of the chapter is devoted to the sensible TES technologies for buildings, both for short-term (daily) and for long-term (seasonal) storage. Each technology is described in detail including different aspects: basic principle, development status, performance and costs, potential and barriers, today's R&D activity focus, etc. Comparisons on the advantages and limitations between different TES technologies are also made. Finally, conclusions and future directions are summarized.

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Realistic simulation of an aquifer thermal energy storage: Effects of injection temperature, well placement and groundwater flow

Cited by 50 publications

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Heat and Fluid Transport Induced by Convective Fluid Circulation Within a Fracture or Fault

Heat and Fluid Transport Induced by Convective Fluid Circulation Within a Fracture or Fault

Numerical modeling of the geothermal hydrology of the Volcanic Island of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe

Energy Storage by Sensible Heat for Buildings

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