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Laboratory Equipment
UK Geoenergy Observatory in Glasgow
Geo-energy
PRIME SYSTEM
The four geothermal boreholes and two sensor testing boreholes have electrical resistivity tomography sensors installed on the outside of the casing. The data is transferred back to the BGS offices. Raw data is available as open file data but processed/interpreted data can be requested for a small charge
Category
Permanent
Group
Downhole Electric Conductivity Sensing
Type
Borehole Monitoring
Thermister string
Thermister string to measure temperature within boreholes - can be moved between boreholes
Category
Temporary
Group
Thermistor string
Type
Borehole Monitoring
Abstraction/reinjection of thermal plume
The Observatory can be used to measure heat extraction from the mine water or thermal energy storage by reinjecting warmed mine water into the system. The thermal response and the time taken for the thermal plume to migrate can be measured
Category
Permanent
Group
Thermal Response Testing
Type
Borehole Testing
UK Geoenergy Observatory in Glasgow
If there are not any experiments occurring at the Observatory then the data continues to be acquired and made available as open data. This passive monitoring provides a baseline for all experiments.
Category
Permanent
Group
Field-Scale Observatory - Passive Monitoring
Type
Facility Type
Guralp
There are five seismometers placed at 40m interval within a 199m borehole. The borehole is part of the Observatory but locate about 1km from the main site. The data is part of the National network.
Category
Permanent
Group
5 seismometers within a borehole
Type
Seismic Monitoring
GasClam
There are currently two 1m long soil probes installed into the UK Geoenergy Observatory - one is near to Site 1 (contains the heat centre) and one is at Site 5 (near to the environmental monitoring boreholes). A third is planned to be installed shortly next to one of the abstraction boreholes. All of the gas clam data is available on the UKGEOS website as open data and are used for risk mitigation purposes.
Category
Temporary
Group
Downhole Soil Gas Probe
Type
Borehole Monitoring
Silixa DTS
DTS multimode cables are installed on the outer casing of the 6 boreholes that penetrate the mineworkings. They are recording data permanently which is available as open data or as part of a research experiment. The fibre-optics are able to be operated in the active mode enabling a heat pulse to be transmitted through them.
Category
Permanent
Group
Distributed Temperature Sensing
Type
Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing
SilixaDAS
The fibre optics installed on the outer casing can be run in the DAS mode but a specific data logger would have to be provided by the user as the site does not own this data logger
Category
Temporary
Group
Distributed Acoustic Sensing
Type
Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing
UK Geoenergy Observatory in Glasgow
The UK Geoenergy Observatory is an at scale (200kW) research site which can be used for experiments relating to mine water geothermal or MTES (mine energy storage). Researchers can use the site to perform a range of experiments.
Category
Permanent
Group
Field-Scale Laboratory - Active Testing
Type
Facility Type