Technology strategies to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality for China's metal mines

Q Guo, X **, S Yang, M Cai - … Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, 2022 - Springer
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to human activities have significantly caused
climate change since the Industrial Revolution. China aims to achieve its carbon emission …

Geoscience solutions for sustainable offshore wind development

APM Velenturf, AR Emery, DM Hodgson… - … Science, Systems and …, 2021 - lyellcollection.org
Low carbon energy infrastructure, such as wind and solar farms, are crucial for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions and limiting global temperature rise to 1.5° C. During 2020, 5.2 …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing industrial hydrogen demand through preheating with very high temperature heat pumps

AJ Pimm, TT Cockerill, WF Gale - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Decarbonising industry while maintaining economic competitiveness and improving living
standards is one of the main challenges of reaching net zero targets, and low-carbon …

Drilling into mines for heat: geological synthesis of the UK Geoenergy Observatory in Glasgow and implications for mine water heat resources

AA Monaghan, V Starcher, HF Barron… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Thermal energy from groundwater in abandoned, flooded, coal mines has the potential to
make a significant contribution to decarbonization of heat and net-zero carbon emissions. In …

Time zero for net zero: a coal mine baseline for decarbonising heat

AA Monaghan, L Bateson, AJ Boyce… - … Science, Systems and …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Mine water geothermal energy could provide sustainable heating, cooling and storage to
assist in the decarbonisation of heat and achieving Net Zero carbon emissions. However …

The value of a hole in coal: assessment of seasonal thermal energy storage and recovery in flooded coal mines

J Perez Silva, C McDermott… - Earth Science, Systems …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Seasonal storage and extraction of heat in legacy coal mines could help decarbonize the
space heating sector of many localities. The modelled evolution of a conceptual mine-water …

[HTML][HTML] GEMSToolbox: A novel modelling tool for rapid screening of mines for geothermal heat extraction

J Mouli-Castillo, J van Hunen, M MacKenzie, T Sear… - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Mine water geothermal heat extraction is a promising technology to provide long-term, zero
carbon heating in former coal mining regions. However to allow the technology to develop …

Heat recovery potential and hydrochemistry of mine water discharges from scotland's coalfields

DB Walls, D Banks, T Peshkur, AJ Boyce… - … Science, Systems and …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Prospective and operational mine water geothermal projects worldwide have faced
challenges created by mine water chemistry (eg, iron scaling, corrosion) and high …

Numerical investigation of coupled heat transfer and flow characteristics in helical coil heat exchanger for mine water waste heat recovery

Y Duan, X Zhang, Z Han, Q Liu, X Li, L Li - International Journal of Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
To efficiently recover waste heat from mine water, this study numerically investigates the flow
and heat transfer performance of a tube-shell coupled helical coil heat exchanger (HCHE) …

Scotland's mineral, water and energy resources: building a low-carbon future

M Smith, P Butler, MR Gillespie, RS Haszeldine… - 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Scotland's Earth resources, which include minerals, hydrocarbons, water and hydro energy,
have for many centuries provided a driver for population and economic growth. The nature …