EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ON THE TEMPERATURE FIELD AT DEPTH: CASE STUDY OF KUUJJUAQ, CANADA

This work aims at assessing the influence of temperature-dependent thermal conductivity on the temperature distribution at depth. Thermal conductivity was evaluated at temperatures ranging from 20 to 160 ºC. The experimental results were implemented in COMSOL Multiphysics to simulate the temperature...

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Main Authors: Mafalda Miranda, Maria Isabel Velez, Jasmin Raymond
Format: Conference Object
Language:unknown
Published: 2019
Subjects:
geothermal energy
thermal properties
empirical equations
numerical model
Nunavik
Canada
Kuujjuaq
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/3565995
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3565995
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Summary:This work aims at assessing the influence of temperature-dependent thermal conductivity on the temperature distribution at depth. Thermal conductivity was evaluated at temperatures ranging from 20 to 160 ºC. The experimental results were implemented in COMSOL Multiphysics to simulate the temperature at depth. The data was implemented as analytical and interpolation functions. The results reveal that the analytical functions lead to a 11 % increase of the temperature at 5 km. In turn, COMSOL’s interpolation function shows an increase of about 9.5 %. This new evaluation predicts temperatures of 105 to 113 ºC at 5 km below Kuujjuaq (Canada).

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