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SUMMARY:The Geobattery Concept – a sustainable future for shallow geothe
 rmal resources? - Dr Gus Fraser Harris\, University of Edinburgh
DTSTART:20220616T103000Z
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CONTACT:Catherine Pearson
DESCRIPTION:Heating the air in our buildings is responsible for almost ¼ 
 of all UK CO2 emissions and is a sector we need to decarbonise quickly to 
 meet net zero targets. Abandoned coal mines have huge potential to provide
  a low carbon heat resource due to their expected connectivity and transmi
 ssivity\, readily available warm water\, and their co-location with heat d
 emand. However\, we need to be careful how we develop these resources to a
 void over exploitation because heat demand is often far greater than recha
 rge rate. At the same time industrial processes exhaust ~46 TWh of excess 
 heat per year into the atmosphere squandering an important and valuable re
 source. In this talk I will present recent work from our group at the Univ
 ersity of Edinburgh investigating the energy balance of shallow geothermal
  resources and thermal energy storage from both an energy and reservoir st
 ability perspective. I will also introduce the Geobattery concept as a pos
 sible way of recycling industrial excess heat to maximise mine water heat 
 potential and ensure the effective management of shallow geothermal resour
 ces.\n\n*Bio*\n\nAndrew Fraser-Harris is a post-doctoral research associat
 e in GeoEnergy at the University of Edinburgh. He studied for an MSci in G
 eology at the University of Birmingham with a year at the University of Au
 ckland which sparked his interest in Geoenergy\, particularly geothermal e
 nergy. He then did an MScR and PhD in coupled process modelling before con
 tinuing onto a post-doc at Edinburgh combining experimental equipment deve
 lopment with numerical modelling to study radioactive waste disposal\, con
 ventional and unconventional hydrocarbon recovery\, rock mechanics\, integ
 rated risk assessments\, and geothermal energy. His recent focus is on tec
 hnologies to decarbonise heating through low temperature resources.\n
LOCATION:Open Plan Area\, BP Institute\, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
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