Insights into geothermal utilization of abandoned oil and gas wells

YL Nian, WL Cheng - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abandoned oil and gas wells (AOGW) with high bottom-hole temperature contain abundant
geothermal energy, which can be retrofitted to a novel geothermal system for different …

Advanced thermal response tests: A review

S Wilke, K Menberg, H Steger, P Blum - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the historical and technical development and the current status of distributed
(DTRT) and enhanced (ETRT) thermal response tests (TRT) are reviewed. The different test …

Modelling and experimental performance analysis of solar-assisted ground source heat pump system

H Esen, M Esen, O Ozsolak - Journal of Experimental & Theoretical …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, slinky (the slinky-loop configuration is also known as the coiled loop or spiral
loop of flexible plastic pipe) type ground heat exchanger (GHE) was established for a solar …

Deep coaxial borehole heat exchanger: Analytical modeling and thermal analysis

Y Luo, H Guo, F Meggers, L Zhang - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Borehole heat exchangers (BHEs) are often used to harvest geothermal energy at shallower
depths. The standard increase in temperature with depth is generally ignored. Without high …

Distributed thermal response tests on pipe-in-pipe borehole heat exchangers

J Acuña, B Palm - Applied Energy, 2013 - Elsevier
Borehole Thermal Energy Storage systems typically use U-pipe Borehole Heat Exchangers
(BHE) having borehole thermal resistances of at least 0.06 Km/W. Obviously, there is room …

Optimization of the utilization of deep borehole heat exchangers

S Pan, Y Kong, C Chen, Z Pang, J Wang - Geothermal Energy, 2020 - Springer
Deep-borehole heat exchangers (DBHE) are generally coaxial pipes installed in deep
boreholes and has become an alternative approach to utilize geothermal energy. Since the …

Long-term thermal performance analysis of deep coaxial borehole heat exchanger based on field test

Y Huang, Y Zhang, Y Xie, Y Zhang, X Gao… - Journal of cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Geothermal energy is an abundant and clean energy source that is abundant and widely
and naturally distributed in the earth. Deep coaxial borehole heat exchanger (DCBHE) can …

Transient heat transfer in a coaxial borehole heat exchanger

RA Beier, J Acuña, P Mogensen, B Palm - Geothermics, 2014 - Elsevier
Ground-source heat pumps often use vertical boreholes to exchange heat with the ground. A
transient heat transfer model has been developed for a thermal response test on a pipe-in …

Improved analytical modeling and system performance evaluation of deep coaxial borehole heat exchanger with segmented finite cylinder-source method

Y Luo, J Yu, T Yan, L Zhang, X Liu - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
The deep borehole heat exchanger is attracting more and more attention due to its higher
performance. But there is no suitable analytical model for its fast simulation and system …

Field test and numerical investigation on deep coaxial borehole heat exchanger based on distributed optical fiber temperature sensor

Y Huang, Y Zhang, Y Xie, Y Zhang, X Gao, J Ma - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The thermal performance of DCBHE is superior to conventional borehole heat exchanger
(BHE) systems. In the current study, the field test using a DCBHE (2044 m) is conducted …