2025 Mine Water Geothermal Energy Symposium
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Day 1 - 7th May 2025
Johann MacDougall, Introduction
Session 1 - Case studies of mine water heating, cooling and storage schemes worldwide
Yago Somoano Rodriguez, 10 years of geothermal energy with mine water at the Álvarez- Buylla Hospital in Mieres, Spain
Florian Hahn, Mine thermal energy storage (MTES) systems in abandoned collieries within the Ruhr area, Germany
Trevor Kelly, Mine water geothermal opportunities in Nova Scotia, Canada
Emna Bouzaiene, Assessing the geothermal potential of mine water in an active mine (Quebec, Eastern Canada)
Tijn Nederstigt, A Pragmatic Approach to Monitoring Local Subsidence at the Mijnwater Project, the Netherlands
Virginie Harcouët-Menou, Harnessing Mine Water Geothermal Energy: case study of the Walloon region, Belgium
Session 2 - Drilling, Testing and Policy
David Gowans, Overcoming challenges of drilling for mine water heat schemes
Lee Wyatt, Drilling in to coal mine workings: success rates and how to improve: experience in Great Britain
Mikey van Mourik, Operational findings from the UK’s first multi-megawatt mine water geothermal heating schemes at Lanchester Wines
Timm Wunderlich, Heat storage in abandoned mines, research results from existing test facilities
Vanessa Starcher, Glasgow Observatory
Mathew Jordison, Engaging Gateshead, England with minewater heat
Jeroen van Hunen, Final outcomes from the GEMS project.
Simone Abram, Policy paper for mine water energy, an update of the mine water energy white paper
Joanne Eynon, An evidence based approach to informing permissions for access to mine workings
Day 2 - 8th May 2025
Brian Carey, Introduction
Session 3 - New Schemes and future projects
Christopher McDermott, Utilizing a hybrid surface water and mine adit water heat source: performance of the SeaWarm system at Wanlockhead Museum of Lead Mining, Scotland
Peter Wormald, Waste heat: recovering heat from mine water treatment schemes
John Tanner, Feasibility study for the potential of a mine water heat network at NCM as public showcase.
Sophie Chapman, Immersion cooling and heat storage within abandoned mine workings
Rebecca Chambers, Establishing an environmental baseline at the Gateshead mine water heat living lab, England
Hamish Martin & Matthew Fox, Mine water potential in Fife, Scotland
Mark Woodward, Harnessing mine water energy in the UK: opportunities under the new Heat Network Zoning legislation
Session 4 - Research
Stephanie Flude, Interactive talk - Applying Responsible Research and Innovation to minewater geothermal activities
Semra Polat, Numerical modeling and feasibility analysis of a mine water geothermal system for sustainable energy solutions
Jessica Dassow, Heat storage in mineshafts: small scale experiments for CFD modelling
Sam Graham, Local scale geochemical and physiochemical processes in the Midlothian, Scotland Coalfield: learnings from a 2- year baseline monitoring survey ahead of subsurface heat storage
Thomas Heinze, Exploration of mine water hydraulics using data-driven analysis of temperature-depth profiles
Elke Mugova, The importance of density stratification for mine water heat applications