| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 51, 2018
2018 3rd International Conference on Advances on Clean Energy Research (ICACER 2018)
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| Article Number | 01003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | New Energy Development and Renewable Energy | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20185101003 | |
| Published online | 24 August 2018 | |
Characterization of Laciana Valley District mine water as geothermal resource
1
Department of Mining Methods and Prospection, University of Oviedo,
C/Independencia, 13,
33004 Oviedo, Asturias,
Spain.
2
I+D+i Department at Magna Dea,
S.L. C/Posada Herrera 2, 2 33002 Oviedo, Asturias,
Spain.
* Corresponding author: jloredo@uniovi.es
Laciana Valley District is a coal mining region located in northern Spain. This region counts with several mining facilities, among them: eight underground mines (six mountain mines and two mine shafts) and three open pit mines. Nowadays, all the mining facilities have been closed down and are flooded. The water found inside them could be used as a geothermal resource due to its thermal properties and the proximity to population. The aim of the study is to analyze the water of the facilities located in Laciana Valley and determine its potential to be used as a geothermal resource for a district heating system. In order to achieve this goal an extensive field work has been performed, nine different mine water discharges have been chosen and several water characteristics have been selected for analysis. The parameters measured have been pH, conductivity, hardness, temperature, turbidity and alkalinity. The results have been evaluated in order to determine the fluctuations of the physico-chemical parameters throughout a hydrological year and the mining facilities have been compared between each other regarding their mine water quality. The analysis of all the information gathered in the study shows a noteworthy thermal potential in the water of the abandoned mines of the region.
© The authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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