An international consortium including scientists from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow is working on modernizing the methods of obtaining thermal energy from the rock mass.
Underground heat storage in the rock mass (UTES) is one of the possibilities of supplying heat and cold used almost all around the world. Borehole Heat Exchangers – BHEs are used to obtain heat from the rock mass and its storage (regeneration of resources). In winter they are used for space heating, in summer for air conditioning or other heating and cooling purposes. A Polish-Norwegian-Swedish consortium called BHEsINNO, headed by Dr Eng. Tomasz Śliwa, from the Geoenergetics Laboratory at the AGH Faculty of Drilling, Oil and Gas.
Experts will develop a computer model of heat transport phenomena in BHEs, which will take into account all important phenomena occurring both in the borehole and in the rock mass, as well as on its surface.
