Research and Teaching Capacities of the Geoenergetics Laboratory at Drilling, Oil and Gas Faculty AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (Poland)

Abstract

The dynamic development of renewable energy recovery systems and also rationalization of heat management gave spur to the construction of the Geoenergetic Laboratory at Drilling, Oil and Gas Faculty AGH University of Science and Technology (DOGF AGH-UST) in Kraków. One of the important factors deciding about the build are previous works on adapting depleted and negative wells. Research carried out at the Laboratory up today and its usability functions are described in the paper. The laboratory is based on various types of borehole heat exchangers. They were investigated in view of their design for their effective thermal conductivity eff and thermal resistance Rb. The thermal response tests were used for elaborating BHE thermal conductivity test. It can be used for optimizing the structure and technology of exploitation of large underground heat storages with borehole heat exchangers. This system can co-operate with various types of solar collectors which in an appropriate climate zone may be a perfect source to be used for charging underground heat storage.