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Analysis of heat transfer in an aquifer thermal energy storage system: On the role of two-dimensional thermal conduction

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  • Qi, Cuiting
  • Zhou, Renjie
  • Zhan, Hongbin

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Aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system plays an important role in application of renewable energy, efficient energy utilization, and reduction of CO2 emission. To realize the successful operation of ATES systems, it is essential to understand the thermal behaviors thoroughly during heat injection. Serving as a powerful tool, analytical model is widely adopted while the existing analytical models usually simplify ATES systems by ignoring aquifer transverse thermal conduction and rock longitudinal thermal conduction. This study develops a novel analytical model for an ATES system, which accounts for thermal convection, dispersion, longitudinal and transverse thermal conduction in the aquifer, and longitudinal and transverse thermal conduction in the surrounding rocks. The Green's function method is applied to derive the semi-analytical solutions of temperature. A global sensitivity analysis is conducted to analyze the relative importance of each parameter. The results indicate that ignoring the aquifer transverse thermal conductivity will overestimate the temperature in the aquifer and ignoring the caprock longitudinal thermal conductivity may underestimate the heat loss in ATES systems. Similar conclusion can be made about the bedrock longitudinal thermal conductivity. The global sensitivity analysis indicates that temperature is sensitive to the changes in the flow velocity, thermal dispersivity and aquifer thickness.

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  • Qi, Cuiting & Zhou, Renjie & Zhan, Hongbin, 2023. "Analysis of heat transfer in an aquifer thermal energy storage system: On the role of two-dimensional thermal conduction," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 217(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:217:y:2023:i:c:s0960148123010704
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2023.119156
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