Geothermal Resources and Applications
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: MARCO VICCAROExpected Learning Outcomes
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.
Course Structure
Required Prerequisites
Fundamentals of Petrology, Geochemistry, Volcanology, Petrophysics, Geophysics of the Solid Earth.
Detailed Course Content
- 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
Textbook Information
- 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.