GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES AND APPLICATIONS

The course has the specific aim of providing adequate skills on types of geothermal resources, with particular attention to low-enthalpy resources, and on technological methods for their employment.

Introduction to Thermogeology

Energetic resources, sources and energy production

Principles of heat transfer

Heat fluxes and geothermal anomalies on Earth

Types of geothermal systems

Geothermal power plants

Ground as Heat Storage Reservoir

Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP)

Types of low-enthaply geothermal systems with GSHP technology

Environmental impact, regulation and geohazards associated to low-enthaply geothermal systems

• Banks D. (2012). An Introduction to Thermogeology: Ground Source Heating and Cooling. Wiley-Blackwell, 526 pp.
• Buntebarth G. (1984). Geothermics, an Introduction. Springer-Verlag, 144 pp.
• Di Pippo R. (2012). Geothermal Power Plants. Elsevier Academic Press, 573 pp.
• Eppelbaum L., Kutasov, I., Pilchin A. (2014). Applied Geothermics. Springer, 751 pp.
• Kalaiselvam S., Parameshwaran R. (2014). Thermal Energy Storage Technologies for Sustainability - Systems Design, Assessment and Applications. Elsevier Academic Press, 430 pp.
• Tinti F. (2009). Geotermia per la Climatizzazione. Dario Flaccovio Editore, 209 pp.