Environmental impacts of aquifer thermal energy storage investigated by field and laboratory experiments

Journal of Water and Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 77-89

  Bonte, Matthijs ^a   Van Breukelen, Boris M ^b   Stuyfzand, Pieter J ^a,b  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aquifer thermal energy storage; Environmental impacts; Ground source heat pumps; Groundwater quality

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; GROUND-WATER QUALITIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; WATER QUALITY GRADIENTS;

AQUIFERS; EXPERIMENTS; GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); LABORATORIES; MIXING; TEMPERATURE; WATER INJECTION; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

AQUIFER; ARSENIC; DESORPTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LABORATORY METHOD; SULFATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL POWER; WATER QUALITY;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84879337608     PISSN: 20402244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2013.061     Document Type: Article

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