Assessing impacts of groundwater on geothermal heat exchangers: A review of methodology and modeling

Z Zhao, YF Lin, A Stumpf, X Wang - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the intensive studies and advances have been made, the penetration of geothermal
heat exchangers (GHEs) and ground coupled heat pump (GCHP) systems has been …

Subsurface urban heat islands: From prevalence and drivers to implications for geothermal energy and a proposed new framework based on machine learning

J Ngarambe, S Raj, GY Yun - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2025 - Elsevier
The effects of urban heat islands extend vertically, reaching several meters below the
ground and causing substantial warming beneath many cities. This warming alters the …

[HTML][HTML] The value of a hole in coal: assessment of seasonal thermal energy storage and recovery in flooded coal mines

J Perez Silva, C McDermott… - Earth Science, Systems …, 2022 - escubed.org
Seasonal storage and extraction of heat in legacy coal mines could help decarbonize the
space heating sector of many localities. The modelled evolution of a conceptual mine-water …

The Geobattery concept: a geothermal circular heat network for the sustainable development of near surface low enthalpy geothermal energy to decarbonise heating

A Fraser-Harris, CI McDermott, M Receveur… - … Science, Systems and …, 2022 - escubed.org
Decarbonisation of heating represents a major challenge in efforts to reach Net Zero carbon
emissions, especially for countries that rely heavily on the combustion of carbon-based fossil …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of groundwater flow on borehole heat exchangers: Lessons learned from Estonia

K Piipponen, A Soesoo, T Arola, H Bauert, S Tarros - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The production of geothermal energy relies on subsurface properties. In low-enthalpy
geothermal regimes, thermal energy extracted with a borehole heat exchanger (BHE) is the …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of geothermal impacts on urban aquifers using a polar coordinates-based approach

MÃ Marazuela, A García-Gil, E Garrido… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The growing interest in shallow geothermal resources is compromising geothermal energy
availability and groundwater quality in urban areas. This makes it necessary to search for …

Review of discrete fracture network characterization for geothermal energy extraction

G Medici, F Ling, J Shang - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Geothermal reservoirs are highly anisotropic and heterogeneous, and thus require a variety
of structural geology, geomechanical, remote sensing, geophysical and hydraulic …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of vertical closed loop system performance by modeling heat transfer in geothermal probes

D Rudakov, O Inkin - Geothermics, 2022 - Elsevier
This study aims to develop and validate the heat transfer models for evaluating the
performance parameters of closed loop geothermal systems, considering in detail probe …

City-wide monitoring and contributing factors to shallow subsurface temperature variability in Nanjing, China

T Zhang, C Liu, P Bayer, L Zhang, X Gong, K Gu… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Shallow temperatures down to a depth of 100 m were measured over one year in 19 closed
boreholes located in Nanjing, China, to reveal the conditions and factors influencing the …

Coupling a borehole thermal model and MT3DMS to simulate dynamic ground source heat pump efficiency

Y Zong, AJ Valocchi, YFF Lin - Groundwater, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present a novel integrated two‐region model that couples simulation of local heat
transfer processes in borehole heat exchangers (BHEs) with field‐scale heat transport …