Impacts of shallow geothermal energy on groundwater quality
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Duration: May 2009-May 2013
Funding: Joint Research Program of the united Dutch water companies
Research questions
- What is the impact of aquifer thermal energy storage on groundwater quality?
- What is the current status of ATES in the Netherlands and what developments can be expected over the coming decades? Is it possible to estimate the volumetric claim that ATES will have on groundwater resources and how does this claim relate to other groundwater uses?
- What are the impacts on groundwater quality resulting from the physical mixing of groundwater caused by extracting and subsequent injecting of groundwater in ATES systems
- What are the impacts on groundwater quality resulting from changing groundwater temperatures on i) mineral equilibria (e.g. carbonates and silicates) ii) mobility of trace elements and heavy metals such as As and B; iii) rate and occurrence of biochemical (redox) processes such as sulfate reduction and methanogenises iv) the aquifers' microbiological community
Publications
- Bonte, M.(2013) Impacts of shallow geothermal energy on groundwater quality, PhD thesis, VU University, 175 p.
- Bonte, M., B.M. van Breukelen, P. J. Stuyfzand. (2013) Temperature-induced impacts on groundwater quality and arsenic mobility in anoxic aquifer sediments used for both drinking water and shallow geothermal energy production. Water Research 47(2013): 5088-5100 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.05.049.
- Bonte, M., B.M. van Breukelen, P. J. Stuyfzand. (2013) Environmental impacts of aquifer thermal energy storage investigated by field and laboratory experiments. Journal of Water and Climate Change 4 (2), 77-89
- Bonte, M., P. J. Stuyfzand, A. Hulsmann, and P. Van Beelen. (2011) Underground thermal energy storage: environmental risks and policy developments in the Netherlands and European Union. Ecology and Society 16(1): 22.
- Bonte, M., Stuyfzand, P.J., van den Berg, G.A., Hijnen, W.A.M. (2011) Effects of aquifer thermal energy storage on groundwater quality and the consequences for drinking water production: A case study from the Netherlands. Water Science and Technology 63(9): 1922-1931.
- Bonte, M., P.J. Stuyfzand, B. van Breukelen (2011). Effects of aquifer thermal energy storage on groundwater quality elucidated by field and laboratory investigations. Bodembreed 29-30 november 2011.
- Bonte, M., P. Visser, H. Kooi, P.J. Stuyfzand, B. van Breukelen (2011). Effects of aquifer thermal energy storage on groundwater quality elucidated by field and laboratory investigations. Congres Bodemenergie 13-14 oktober 2011.
- Bonte, M. van den Berg (2010) Subsurface spatial planning: a new approach to groundwater management for cities of the future. In: Proc. IWA World Water Congress, 19-24 September 2010, Montreal, Canada.
- Bonte, M. van den Berg,G,A, Hulsmann, A., van Wezel, A. (2010) Underground Thermal Energy Storage (UTES) in the Netherlands: Environmental Risks and Policy. In: Proc. of the 7th Anque's International Congress. "Integral Water Cycle: Present and Future". Oviedo. June 14-16 2010.
- Bonte, M., Berg, G.A. van den, De Cleen, M., Van Rijswick, M. (2010) Planning the underground. In: Proc. First Int. Conference. on Frontiers in Shallow Subsurface Technology. January 20-22, 2010.
- Bonte, M. Stuyfzand, P.J., Van Beelen, P., Visser, P. (2010) Onderzoek naar duurzame toepassing van warmte-/koudeopslag. H2O: 3/2010: 30-32.
- Bonte M. Berg, G.A. van den, Wezel A.M. (2008) Bodemenergiesystemen in relatie tot grondwaterbescherming. Bodem: 5/2008.
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