Sustainable Management of Thermohydrogeology

Of National scope. With a Public character. It has been granted under a regime of Competitive.

Thermohydrogeology or shallow geothermal energy is a renewable energy that is not very widespread in the southeast of Spain. It uses the subsoil to exchange energy, which improves the efficiency of heat pumps used in air conditioning. The general objectives of this proposal are to promote the use of this energy resource and facilitate a sustainable management and distribution among its users through a web platform. In this way, this project contributes both to the ecological transition, by promoting the exploitation of renewable energy, and to the digital transition, by creating new web tools for access to information for citizens. This new web application will contain 2 main sections. The first sections will be focused on the promotion of this renewable energy, through the visualization of maps with information about the thermohydrogeological potential available in the subsoil of the city and about the thermal impact, called thermal shadow, caused in the subsoil. In addition, it will facilitate that when sizing a heat exchanger, the designer can consider the thermal effect that occurs in the subsoil, an aspect that until now has not been taken into account. For this, it will contain maps with the main thermal properties of the subsoil necessary accompanied by an accessible methodology to include the thermal response of the subsoil. The second section of the web application will be linked directly to the database of thermohydrogeological facilities. In this databas

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María del Mar

García Alcaraz

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