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From Exploration to Operation - Research Developments in Deep Geothermal Energy

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The potential for geothermal energy to supply clean base-load energy for heating and electricity worldwide is enormous. If developed appropriately, geothermal energy will play a decisive role in the global switch to renewable energies. However, geothermal energy exploitation remains complex and requires the active participation of experts from a variety of fields. Indeed, key to the development of efficient and sustainable geothermal energy is the pursuit of new integrative approaches. The 6th European Geothermal Workshop - held on 10-11 October 2018 in Strasbourg, France - brought together members from this practice-oriented and diverse research community to discuss interdisciplinary research aimed at advancing all stages of geothermal energy production from exploration to operation. 

This EGW 2018 Special Issue is a collection of scientific contributions initially presented at the 6th European Geothermal Workshop.

  2. Gravity measurements in the Upper Rhine Graben evidence spatial variations at the regional scale and close to the geothermal sites. They are classically interpreted as linked to the geology. We aim to bring ne...

    Authors: Bérénice Vallier, Vincent Magnenet, Jean Schmittbuhl and Christophe Fond
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2020 8:13
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  3. Anticosti Island is located in the Anticosti sedimentary basin, an Ordovician/Silurian carbonate platform. This platform is mainly composed of limestone and shale with some dolomite and sandstone and reaches u...

    Authors: Violaine Gascuel, Karine Bédard, Félix-Antoine Comeau, Jasmin Raymond and Michel Malo
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2020 8:3
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  4. For successful geothermal reservoir exploration, accurate temperature estimation is essential. Since reservoir temperature estimation frequently involves high uncertainties when using conventional solute geoth...

    Authors: Lars H. Ystroem, Fabian Nitschke, Sebastian Held and Thomas Kohl
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2020 8:2
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  5. The Upper Rhine Graben (URG) has been extensively studied for geothermal exploitation over the past decades. Yet, the thermal conductivity of the sedimentary cover is still poorly constrained, limiting our abi...

    Authors: Pauline Harlé, Alexandra R. L. Kushnir, Coralie Aichholzer, Michael J. Heap, Régis Hehn, Vincent Maurer, Patrick Baud, Alexandre Richard, Albert Genter and Philippe Duringer
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2019 7:38
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  6. The present study aims to understand the potential of a new and novel type of geothermal play system for high temperature and electricity production: crustal fault zones (CFZ). According to geological and geop...

    Authors: Hugo Duwiquet, Laurent Arbaret, Laurent Guillou-Frottier, Michael J. Heap and Mathieu Bellanger
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2019 7:33
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  7. Temperature logs have important applications in the geothermal industry such as the estimation of the static formation temperature (SFT) and the characterization of fluid loss from a borehole. However, the tem...

    Authors: Jia Wang, Fabian Nitschke, Maziar Gholami Korzani and Thomas Kohl
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2019 7:32
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  8. This paper describes a novel concept for integrating binary plants at a geothermal site which has been realized within a demonstration project in Indonesia. By using an intermediate hot water and an intermedia...

    Authors: Stephanie Frick, Stefan Kranz, Gina Kupfermann, Ali Saadat and Ernst Huenges
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2019 7:30
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  9. The Muschelkalk, composed of Triassic limestones, marls, dolomites, and evaporites, forms part of the Permo-Triassic cover of sedimentary rocks that directly overlies the fractured granitic reservoir used for ...

    Authors: Michael J. Heap, Alexandra R. L. Kushnir, H. Albert Gilg, Marie E. S. Violay, Pauline Harlé and Patrick Baud
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2019 7:27
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  10. The use of the subsurface and the exploitation of subsurface resources require prior knowledge of fluid flow through fracture networks. For nuclear waste disposal, for the enhancement of hydrocarbon recovery f...

    Authors: Baptiste Lepillier, Alexandros Daniilidis, Nima Doonechaly Gholizadeh, Pierre-Olivier Bruna, Juliane Kummerow and David Bruhn
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2019 7:24
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  11. Temperature variations often trigger coupled thermal, hydrological, mechanical, and chemical (THMC) processes that can significantly alter the permeability/impedance of fracture-dominated deep geological reser...

    Authors: Marina Grimm Lima, Daniel Vogler, Lorenzo Querci, Claudio Madonna, Bodo Hattendorf, Martin O. Saar and Xiang-Zhao Kong
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2019 7:23
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  12. In densely inhabited urban areas, deep borehole heat exchangers (DBHE) have been proposed to be integrated with the heat pump in order to utilize geothermal energy for building heating purposes. In this work, ...

    Authors: Chaofan Chen, Haibing Shao, Dmitri Naumov, Yanlong Kong, Kun Tu and Olaf Kolditz
    Citation: Geothermal Energy 2019 7:18
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