Regions: North Slave Region
Tags: physical sciences, renewable energy, flooding, heat transfer, geothermal potential
| Principal Investigator: | Fiess, Kathryn M (6) |
| Licence Number: | 16743 |
| Organization: | Northwest Territories Geological Survey (NTGS) |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2020
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| Issued: | Aug 21, 2020 |
| Project Team: | Kathryn Fiess, Jasmin Raymond, Dan Ngoyo, Viktor Terlaky, Jonathan Rocheleau, |
Objective(s): To develop reliable approaches to estimate the geothermal potential of flooded mines, using the Con Mine as a field example, and contributing to the development of renewable energy alternatives to the benefit of the Northwest Territories.
Project Description: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4819. The objective of the project is to develop reliable approaches to estimate the geothermal potential of flooded mines, using the Con Mine as a field example, and contributing to the development of renewable energy alternatives to the benefit of the Northwest Territories. The geothermal potential of a flooded mine mostly depends on the amount of water contained in underground workings and the degree at which the water and surrounding host rock can be cooled over the life of the geothermal heating system. The potential of cooling the surrounding host rock is often neglected in simple approaches to estimate the geothermal potential based on mine water volume and temperature. Simple approaches, although offering conservative resource estimates, are useful to rapidly evaluate the potential of such a geothermal resource. Hence, an improved geothermal... Show more
