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Featured article: A comprehensive review of deep borehole heat exchangers (DBHEs): subsurface modelling studies and applications

Explore Kolo et al.'s review on deep borehole heat exchangers (DBHEs). This paper critically surveys the literature on modeling methodologies, heat extraction, thermal storage, and real-world case studies. Learn about optimizing engineering parameters, addressing research gaps like geological heterogeneity, and insights on DBHE arrays. Discover the potential of DBHE systems for cooling and energy storage, with a focus on enhancing thermal yield and performance. Emerging case studies in cost-effective drilling regions and repurposed wells highlight sustainable energy advancements.

Determination of thermal properties of grouting materials for borehole heat exchangers (BHE)

Authors: Anna Albers, Petra Huttenloch, Roman Zorn, Hagen Steger and Philipp Blum

Content type: Research 28 September 2024
Repurposing idle wells in the North German Basin as deep borehole heat exchangers

Authors: Nora Koltzer, Johannes Schoenherr, Maximilian Sporleder, Jan Niederau and Florian Wellmann

Content type: Research 28 September 2024
Geothermal resources in Latin-America and their exploration using electromagnetic methods

Authors: Octavio Castillo-Reyes, Rosa María Prol-Ledesma, Fernando Corbo-Camargo and Otilio Rojas

Content type: Review 28 September 2024
Chemical and isotopic constraints on fluid origin and genesis of geothermal systems in the Tingri-Tangra Yumco rift, southern Tibetan Plateau

Authors: Wei Liu, Maoliang Zhang, Yi Liu, Lifeng Cui, Yuji Sano and Sheng Xu

Content type: Research 3 September 2024
Hydrogeochemical and microbial characterization of a Middle Triassic carbonate aquifer (Muschelkalk) in Berlin and geochemical simulation of its use as a high-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage

Authors: Lioba Virchow, Christian Siever-Wenzlaff, Guido Blöcher, Armando Alibrandi, Jens Kallmeyer, Martin Zimmer, Thomas Wiersberg, Christoph Thielke, Anja Schleicher and Simona Regenspurg

Content type: Research 28 August 2024

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Performance of geothermal power plants (single, dual, and binary) to compensate for LHC-CERN power consumption: comparative study

Authors: M. El Haj Assad, E. Bani-Hani and M. Khalil

Content type: Research 15 September 2017
Design of earth–air heat exchanger system

Authors: Trilok Singh Bisoniya

Content type: Research 12 September 2015
Analysis of geothermal energy as an alternative source for electricity in Colombia

Authors: Samuel S. Salazar, Yecid Muñoz and Adalberto Ospino

Content type: Research 23 November 2017
A systematic review of enhanced (or engineered) geothermal systems: past, present and future

Authors: Katrin Breede, Khatia Dzebisashvili, Xiaolei Liu and Gioia Falcone

Content type: Review 5 November 2013
Numerical analysis for ground temperature variation

Authors: Raviranjan Kumar Singh and Ram Vinoy Sharma

Content type: Research 1 November 2017

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Emerging technologies in ground-source heat pumps for low-carbon heating and cooling in buildings
Geothermal Energy
Edited by: Ning MAO, Zhenjun MA, Liang PU, Yiji LU, Hyunjun OH and Jiaming GONG
Published: 6 March 2024

Geothermal Fluid Properties at Extreme Conditions
Geothermal Energy
Edited by: Alper Baba, Harald Milsch and Simona Regenspurg
Published: 21 December 2023

On the future development of superhot and supercritical geothermal systems
Geothermal Energy
Edited by: Egbert Jolie, Hiroshi Asanuma and Guðmundur Ómar Friðleifsson
Published: 15 February 2021

From Exploration to Operation - Research Developments in Deep Geothermal Energy
Geothermal Energy
Edited by: Alexandra Kushnir and Markus Loewer
Published: 3 July 2019

Integrative Approaches in Deep Geothermal Science
Geothermal Energy
Edited by: Carola Meller and Emmanuel Gaucher
Published: 2 June 2018

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Geothermal Energy – Science, Society and Technology focuses on fundamental and applied research needed to deploy technologies for developing and integrating geothermal energy as one key element in the future energy portfolio. Contributions include geological, geophysical, and geochemical studies, exploration of geothermal fields, reservoir characterization and modeling, development of productivity-enhancing methods, and approaches to achieve robust and economic plant operation. Geothermal Energy – Science, Society and Technology serves to examine the interaction of individual system components while taking the whole process into account, from the development of the reservoir to the economic provision of geothermal energy.

Geothermal Energy & Geothermal Energy Science merger

Geothermal Energy merged with the open-access journal Geothermal Energy Science on 1 July 2017. For previous articles published in Geothermal Energy Science please visit the homepage.

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