Perspectives For Geothermal Energy In Europe

Author : Bertani Ruggero
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786342331

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Perspectives For Geothermal Energy In Europe by Bertani Ruggero Pdf

The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless. For millennia natural sources of this energy, in the form of thermal springs, have been used by populations for heating, cooking and bathing. Modern-day usage has been extended to electricity generation from binary cycle power plants, heat extraction from geothermal heat pumps and use in greenhouses for industrial crop growing. Perspectives for Geothermal Energy in Europe highlights the status of geothermal energy in countries where natural sources of this energy are available. It concludes with a presentation of current geothermal policy and regulations within Europe, and discussion of how this fits in with the EU Energy and Climate Framework. Suitable for students, academics and practitioners in the fields of energy studies, geology and the earth sciences, electrical engineering and environmental economics, this book is the first comprehensive review of the practicalities of geothermal extraction and use in Europe.

Author : Johanna Fink,Elisa Heim,Norbert Klitzsch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030968700

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State of the Art in Deep Geothermal Energy in Europe by Johanna Fink,Elisa Heim,Norbert Klitzsch Pdf

Since nearly 50 % of Europe's energy demand is in the heating and cooling sector, it is expected that geothermal energy will play an important role in the transition to a decarbonized energy system. However, deep geothermal energy is currently harvested mainly from areas with very favorable geothermal conditions. As these areas are geographically limited, the use of geothermal energy in less favorable regions is essential for unleashing the full potential of geothermal energy, since they make up the majority of the total geothermal potential in Central Europe. Motivated by the growing interest in deep geothermal energy among, e.g., energy companies and communities, this text reviews the state of the art in deep geothermal energy with focus on direct heating in geothermally less favorable regions. It provides an overview of technologies used to generate heat from the deep underground and discusses main technical and non-technical risks associated with deep geothermal projects. The text addresses readers with an interest in geothermal energy but does not require a background in geoscience or engineering sciences. It is suitable as textbook for Geothermal Energy courses for undergraduate students from different disciplines.

Author : Adele Manzella,Agnes Allansdottir,Anna Pellizzone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319782867

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Geothermal Energy and Society by Adele Manzella,Agnes Allansdottir,Anna Pellizzone Pdf

This book addresses the societal aspects of harnessing geothermal resources for different uses, such as power production, heating and cooling. It introduces a theoretical framework for a social scientific approach to the field, and presents a preliminary collection of empirical case studies on geothermal energy and society from across the world. By providing a conceptual and methodological framework to the study of geothermal energy and societies, it brings together information and analyses in the field that to date have been sparse and fragmented. The contributors explore the diverse aspects of the relationship between the harnessing of geothermal resources and the societies and local communities in which these developments take place. After introducing geothermal technologies, renewable energy concepts as well as their social and policy context and the regulative and environmental aspects of geothermal energy, the book analyzes and discusses twelve global case studies, and compares the social engagement tools applied with those used in other sectors. Of interest to researchers from a range of disciplines who wish to explore the issues surrounding energy and society, it is also a valuable resource for geothermal experts and postgraduate students wish to study the field in greater detail.

Author : A.S. Strub,P. Ungemach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400990593

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Advances in European Geothermal Research by A.S. Strub,P. Ungemach Pdf

The first crisis in energy prices was undoubtedly a strong stimulus for the involvement of the Commission of the European Communities in research and development on alternative energy sources. Indeed, the need to overcome difficulties faced by the Community as a whole, particularly those resulting from its severely unbalanced energy supply, made a common Community approach seem especially apt. This reasoning also applies to energy R&D, bearing in mind that responses to the crisis should be not only political or economic, but also scientific. Four years have passed since the decision of the Council of Ministers to launch the first Community Energy Research and Development Programme, dealing with geothermal energy, solar energy, hydrogen production and utili sation, energy conservation and energy systems analysis. A seminar on geo thermal energy was held two years ago to report on work in progress at the half-way stage of the four-year programme. The second international seminar, reported in this volume, was arrang ed so as to provide an opportunity to examine the final outcome of this Community investment in research in geothermal energy. This proceedings volume therefore has two main aims: - to present an evaluation of the results of the Community geothermal programme, by means of 83 formal reports describing the individual research programmes; - to show how the Community research programme fits into the overall context of national and international research on geothermal energy, by including the presentations of six guest speakers who introduced the sessions and gave keynote addresses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Geothermal engineering
ISBN : UVA:X004500110

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Blue Book on Geothermal Resources by Anonim Pdf

Author : Renato Somma,Daniela Blessent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3036552448

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New Perspectives on Geothermal Energy Exploration and Evaluation of Geothermal Potential by Renato Somma,Daniela Blessent Pdf

This book describes interesting case studies of the exploration, characterization, and use of geothermal resources in Spain, Sweden, Italy, Croatia, China, Djibouti, and Canada. A new open-source software, with an easy-to-use graphical user interface, is applied to assess the deep geothermal potential of the Reus-Valls sedimentary basin in Spain. Then, a high-temperature borehole thermal energy storage facility at Linköping, Sweden, is described to shift excess heat generated from a waste incineration plant during the summer to the winter season. Next, a plastic plate heat exchanger was geometrically and thermodynamically modeled, optimized, and applied to a direct geothermal heating system for a building in Southern Italy. In the last European study, in Croatia, an unconventional hydrocarbon gas reservoir is analyzed (geothermal gradient of 49°C/km), in the geothermal field Velika Ciglena. Going down to Africa, the assessment of the geothermal resources in the Asal Rift (Djibouti) through multiphase flow and heat transfer simulations is presented. Moving to Asia, in the Chinese province of Guangdong, magnetotelluric profiles are used to interpret the crust and upper mantle structure and its geothermal implications. Then, in the remote Canadian Northern regions, uncertainty and risk evaluation of deep geothermal energy resources (> 4 km) for heat production and electricity generation are described. Finally, a literature review provides a comparison of geothermal projects in unconventional reservoirs in United Kingdom (Cornubian Batholith), Canada (Williston Sedimentary Basin), and Italy (Campi Flegrei Caldera).

Author : Elisabet Palomo,Antonio Colmenar-Santos,Enrique Rosales-Asensio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030956264

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Potential of Low-Medium Enthalpy Geothermal Energy by Elisabet Palomo,Antonio Colmenar-Santos,Enrique Rosales-Asensio Pdf

This book highlights the importance of geothermal energy by studying its potential either alone or in combination with solar energy, focusing on its industrial application. Its starting point is to identify in a thorough and precise manner the barriers that hinder the implementation of geothermal energy in Spain and the European Union and the measures to be taken to achieve its diffusion and regular use. Next, the book looks at how geothermal energy could contribute to this sector and to the desalination industry in particular, analysing a specific case in the south of Spain and extrapolating its results to a set of existing desalination plants in the Spanish Mediterranean with really interesting results in terms of economic amortisation and CO2 emissions avoided to the atmosphere. Beyond the desalination industry, this work demonstrates that almost 85% of the industrial processes of all industry in Spain can be carried out with very low, low and medium temperature geothermal resources and even applies its results to a set of existing solar plants, comparing in economic terms the results already obtained with those that would have been obtained if geothermal energy had been applied.

Author : J. C. Bresee
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2881245234

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Geothermal Energy in Europe by J. C. Bresee Pdf

The report of a research project in eastern France, a pilot study for a much larger effort to determine whether geothermal energy resources can be developed in areas without natural geothermal reservoirs, which includes a good deal of industrial northern Europe. The idea is to drill a hole deep enough to hit hot rock, then circulate high-pressure water between the hot rock and heat exchangers at the surface; it was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratories. Includes a half-page subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alejandro García Gil,Eduardo Antonio Garrido Schneider,Miguel Mejías Moreno,Juan Carlos Santamarta Cerezal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030922580

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Shallow Geothermal Energy by Alejandro García Gil,Eduardo Antonio Garrido Schneider,Miguel Mejías Moreno,Juan Carlos Santamarta Cerezal Pdf

This book is the outcome of more than a decade of research and technical development activities at Spain’s Geological Survey (IGME) concerning shallow geothermal energy, which were pursued in collaboration with other public bodies and European entities. It presents a compilation of papers on the theoretical foundations of, and practical aspects needed to understand the thermal regime of the topmost subsoil, up to 400 m deep, and the exceptional properties that this underground environment offers, which make it the ideal thermal reservoir for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC). In the book’s first section, the basic theory of thermodynamics as applied to shallow geothermal energy, heat transfer and fluid mechanics in the geological porous medium is developed. The nature of the subsoil’s thermal regime in general and in the urban environment in particular is described. The second section introduces readers to the fundamental aspects of thermal installations equipped with geothermal heat pumps, describes the types of geothermal exchangers most commonly used, and reviews the techniques used to obtain the thermal parameters of the terrain. It also discusses the potential environmental impacts of shallow geothermal activity and corresponding management strategies, as well as the legal aspects of its regulation for the governance of shallow geothermal resources in the EU in general and Spain in particular. In closing, the book highlights examples of the methodologies’ applications, developed by IGME in the city of Zaragoza and the Canary Islands. The theoretical foundations, systematics and concrete applications make the book a valuable reference source for hydrogeologists, engineers and specialized technicians alike.

Author : Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC),Brian Azzopardi,Mario V. Balzan,Semia Cherif,Enrique Doblas-Miranda,Maria dos Santos,Philippe Dobrinski,Marianela Falder,Abed El Rahman Hassoun,Carlo Giupponi,Vally (Vassiliki) Koubi,Manfred A. Lange,Piero Lionello,María Carmen Llasat,Stefano Moncada,Rachid Mrabet,Shlomit Paz,Robert Savé,Maria Snoussi,Andrea Toreti,Athanasios T. Vafeidis,Elena Xoplaki
Publisher : MedECC
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782957741601

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Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin – Current Situation and Risks for the Future. First Mediterranean Assessment Report by Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC),Brian Azzopardi,Mario V. Balzan,Semia Cherif,Enrique Doblas-Miranda,Maria dos Santos,Philippe Dobrinski,Marianela Falder,Abed El Rahman Hassoun,Carlo Giupponi,Vally (Vassiliki) Koubi,Manfred A. Lange,Piero Lionello,María Carmen Llasat,Stefano Moncada,Rachid Mrabet,Shlomit Paz,Robert Savé,Maria Snoussi,Andrea Toreti,Athanasios T. Vafeidis,Elena Xoplaki Pdf

The First Mediterranean Assessment Report (MAR1) prepared by the independent network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC) founded in 2015 was published in November 2020. MAR1 assesses the best available scientific knowledge on climate and environmental change and associated risks in the Mediterranean Basin in order to render it accessible to policymakers, stakeholders and citizens. The report has been written by 190 scientists from 25 countries, all contributing in individual capacity and without financial compensation. The report includes a Summary for Policymakers (SPM), which comprises the key messages of the MAR1. The UNEP/MAP – Barcelona Convention Secretariat, through its Plan Bleu Regional Activity Center, and the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean work in partnership to support MedECC, and to contribute to establish a sound and transparent scientific assessment process.

Author : Ingrid Stober,Kurt Bucher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642133527

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Geothermal Energy by Ingrid Stober,Kurt Bucher Pdf

The internal heat of the planet Earth represents an inexhaustible reservoir of thermal energy. This form of energy, known as geothermal energy has been utilized throughout human history in the form of hot water from hot springs. Modern utilization of geothermal energy includes direct use of the heat and its conversion to other forms of energy, mainly electricity. Geothermal energy is a form of renewable energy and its use is associated with very little or no CO2-emissions and its importance as an energy source has greatly increased as the effects of climate change become more prominent. Because of its inexhaustibility it is obvious that utilization of geothermal energy will become a cornerstone of future energy supplies. The exploration of geothermal resources has become an important topic of study as geology and earth science students prepare to meet the demands of a rapidly growing industry, which involves an increasing number professionals and public institutions participating in geothermal energy related projects. This book meets the demands of both groups of readers, students and professionals. Geothermal Energy and its utilization is systematically presented and contains the necessary technical information needed for developing and understanding geothermal energy projects. It presents basic knowledge on the Earth’s thermal regime and its geothermal energy resources, the types of geothermal energy used as well as its future potential and the perspectives of the industry. Specific chapters of the book deal with borehole heat exchangers and with the direct use of groundwater and thermal water in hydrogeothermal systems. A central topic are Enhanced Geothermal Systems (hot-dry-rock systems), a key technology for energy supply in the near future. Pre-drilling site investigations, drilling technology, well logging and hydraulic test programs are important subjects related to the exploration phase of developing Geothermal Energy sites. The chemical composition of the natural waters used as a heat transport medium in geothermal systems can be used as an exploration tool, but chemistry is also important during operation of a geothermal power plant because of potential scale formation and corrosion of pipes and installations, which needs to be prevented. Graduate students and professionals will find in depth information on Geothermal Energy, its exploration and utilization.

Author : Beata Kępińska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016848611

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Lectures on Geothermal Resources and Utilization in Poland and Europe by Beata Kępińska Pdf

Author : Jorge Morales Pedraza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319160832

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Electrical Energy Generation in Europe by Jorge Morales Pedraza Pdf

The present book maximizes reader insights into the current and future roles to be played by different types of renewable energy sources and nuclear energy for the purpose of electricity generation in the European region as a whole and in a select group of European countries specifically. This book includes detailed analysis of the different types of renewable energy sources available in different European countries; the pros and cons of the use of the different types of renewables and nuclear energy for electricity generation; which energy options are available in the different European countries to expand their energy sector in the coming years; the impact on the climate and the environment; levels of production and consumption and the level of electricity generated by these energy sources, amongst others. Designed to inform government officials, economists, scientists and the private and public power industry of the key issues surrounding the future role of different renewable energy sources and nuclear energy in the production of electricity within the European region, this book will also describe in detail the evolution of the electrical energy sector in the chosen European region and the problems that several countries are now experiencing in the face of increasing demand for electricity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979-12
Category : Geothermal engineering
ISBN : OSU:32435027500669

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Geothermal Energy Update by Anonim Pdf

Author : Manuela Achilles,Dana Elzey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137334480

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Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective by Manuela Achilles,Dana Elzey Pdf

Experts from business, academia, governmental agencies and non-profit think tanks to form a transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the combined challenges of environmental sustainability and energy security in the United States and Germany.