Quantitative temperature monitoring of a heat tracing experiment using cross-borehole ERT

Geothermics

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 14-26

  Hermans, Thomas ^a,b   Wildemeersch, Samuel ^a   Jamin, Pierre ^a   Orban, Philippe ^a   Brouyère, Serge ^a   Dassargues, Alain ^a   Nguyen, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cross borehole electrical resistivity tomography; Geothermal system; Heat tracing; Temperature monitoring; Time lapse

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY POLICY; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CROSS-BOREHOLE ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; GROWING DEMAND; HEAT TRACING; HEATED WATERS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; TEMPERATURE MONITORING; TIME-LAPSE;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER; HEAT TRANSFER; PIEZOMETER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BOREHOLE LOGGING; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DEMAND ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOTHERMAL POWER; HEAT PRODUCTION; MONITORING SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84899690394     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2014.03.013     Document Type: Article

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