Guidance for the integrated use of hydrological, geochemical, and isotopic tools in mining operations

C Wolkersdorfer, DK Nordstrom, RD Beckie… - Mine Water and the …, 2020 - Springer
This paper summarizes international state-of-the-art applications and opportunities for
employing and deploying hydrological, geochemical, and isotopic tools in an integrated …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the technical potential for underground thermal energy storage in the UK

CS Brown, I Kolo, A Lyden, L Franken, N Kerr… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Heating and cooling both make up a large part of the total energy demand in the UK; long-
term seasonal thermal energy storage (STES) can address temporal imbalances between …

Water from abandoned mines as a heat source: practical experiences of open-and closed-loop strategies, United Kingdom

D Banks, A Athresh, A Al-Habaibeh… - Sustainable Water …, 2019 - Springer
Pilot heat pump systems have been installed at two former collieries in
Yorkshire/Derbyshire, England, to extract heat from mine water. The installations represent …

A review of the performance of minewater heating and cooling systems

DB Walls, D Banks, AJ Boyce, NM Burnside - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
As the decarbonisation of heating and cooling becomes a matter of critical importance, it has
been shown that flooded mines can provide a reliable source of low-carbon thermal energy …

Mine-oriented low-enthalpy geothermal exploitation: A review from spatio-temporal perspective

Z Chu, K Dong, P Gao, Y Wang, Q Sun - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Based on 44 documented demonstration projects worldwide, a novel conceptual aspect of
mine-oriented low-enthalpy geothermal exploitation classification was initially proposed. For …

Evaluating the long-term sustainability of geothermal energy utilization from deep coal mines

Y Huang, Y Kong, Y Cheng, C Zhu, J Zhang, J Wang - Geothermics, 2023 - Elsevier
Deep underground mines offer a great potential as low-enthalpy geothermal resource to be
adopted in direct regional heating. In this paper, a parallel horizontal ground heat …

Drilling into mines for heat: geological synthesis of the UK Geoenergy Observatory in Glasgow and implications for mine water heat resources

AA Monaghan, V Starcher, HF Barron… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Thermal energy from groundwater in abandoned, flooded, coal mines has the potential to
make a significant contribution to decarbonization of heat and net-zero carbon emissions. In …

Time zero for net zero: a coal mine baseline for decarbonising heat

AA Monaghan, L Bateson, AJ Boyce… - … Science, Systems and …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Mine water geothermal energy could provide sustainable heating, cooling and storage to
assist in the decarbonisation of heat and achieving Net Zero carbon emissions. However …

[HTML][HTML] Density stratification and double-diffusive convection in mine pools of flooded underground mines–a review

E Mugova, C Wolkersdorfer - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Layering of water bodies with different physico-chemical properties is called stratification.
This physical effect is known from lakes or oceans but also occurs in flooded underground …

Geothermal energy recovery from deep flooded copper mines for heating

T Bao, J Meldrum, C Green, S Vitton, Z Liu… - Energy Conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Geothermal energy recovery from abandoned flooded mines provides a viable high-tech
solution to reuse the abandoned mines for meeting humanity's energy needs worldwide in …