Underground Thermal Energy Storage

✍ Scribed by Kun Sang Lee (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 157
• Series: Green Energy and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Underground thermal energy storage (UTES) provide us with a flexible tool to combat global warming through conserving energy while utilizing natural renewable energy resources. Primarily, they act as a buffer to balance fluctuations in supply and demand of low temperature thermal energy. Underground Thermal Energy Storage provides an comprehensive introduction to the extensively-used energy storage method.

Underground Thermal Energy Storage gives a general overview of UTES from basic concepts and classifications to operation regimes. As well as discussing general procedures for design and construction, thermo-hydro geological modeling of UTES systems is explained. Finally, current real life data and statistics are include to summarize major global developments in UTES over the past decades.

The concise style and thorough coverage makes Underground Thermal Energy Storage a solid introduction for students, engineers and geologists alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Underground Thermal Energy Storage....Pages 15-26
Basic Theory and Ground Properties....Pages 27-58
Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage....Pages 59-93
Borehole Thermal Energy Storage....Pages 95-123
Cavern Thermal Energy Storage Systems....Pages 125-129
Standing Column Well....Pages 131-138
Modeling....Pages 139-151

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences