Assessment of seasonal aquifer thermal energy storage as a groundwater ecosystem service for the Brussels-Capital Region: combining groundwater flow, and heat and reactive transport modeling KU Leuven
© 2016 The Authors. Seasonal aquifer thermal energy storage and recovery (ATES) help urbanized areas to contribute to their energy demands. We assess the potential of ATES in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium with groundwater flow, heat and reactive transport models. Situated in the phreatic Brussels Sand aquifer, they indicate that ATES systems are unfeasible for hydraulic conductivities of 4.2e-6 ms-1. At low groundwater flow velocities ...