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 …

Based on 44 documented demonstration projects worldwide, a novel conceptual aspect of
mine-oriented low-enthalpy geothermal exploitation classification was initially proposed. For …

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 large number of mines are closed or abandoned every year in China. Geothermal
utilization is one of the important ways to efficiently reuse underground resources in …

To efficiently recover waste heat from mine water, this study numerically investigates the flow
and heat transfer performance of a tube-shell coupled helical coil heat exchanger (HCHE) …

Exploiting heat from abandoned mine water using heat pumps is attracting increasing
attention worldwide. China has a large number of abandoned coal mines, but there are few …

The themed issue on “Sustainable resource management: water practice issues” includes a
wide variety of original contributions in environmental hydrology, hydrogeology, thermal …

After the closure of an underground mine, tunnels commonly become flooded and can be
potentially exploited for its geothermal resource. Developing new methods for quantifying …

The feasibility of recovering heat energy from mine water contained within an abandoned
coal mine in South Wales is assessed for a proposed district heating scheme. The study …

The Reocín mine is located in Cantabrian region, in northern Spain. Its exploitation ended in
2003 due to the exhaustion of its reserves. In November 2004, the controlled flooding of the …