Underground Thermal Energy Storage

• Main Author: Lee, Kun Sang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Renewable energy resources.; Geotechnical engineering.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.

Underground thermal energy storage (UTES) provide us with a flexible tool to combat global warming through conserving energy while utilizing natural renewable energy resources. Primarily, they act as a buffer to balance fluctuations in supply and demand of low temperature thermal energy. Underground...