1. High-Resolution Wellbore Temperature Logging Combined with a Borehole-Scale Heat Budget: Conceptual and Analytical Approaches to Characterize Hydraulically Active Fractures and Groundwater Origin
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J.A. Corcho-Alvarado, Guillaume Meyzonnat, Hermann Zeyen, Alexandra Mattei, Antoine Tognelli, Renald McCormack, Florent Barbecot, Centre de recherche sur la dynamique du système Terre (GEOTOP), École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM)-McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]-Université de Montréal (UdeM)-Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)-Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)-Concordia University [Montreal]-Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM), Fondation MINES ParisTech, Spiez Laboratory, Federal Office for Civil Protection, Laboratoire de Détection et de Géophysique (CEA) (LDG), DAM Île-de-France (DAM/DIF), Direction des Applications Militaires (DAM), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction des Applications Militaires (DAM), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Géosciences Paris Sud (GEOPS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Géosciences (GEOSCIENCES), Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Envir’Eau-Puits Inc., Saint-Nicolas, Université de Montréal (UdeM)-McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]-École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM)-Concordia University [Montreal]-Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)-Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM)-Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), and MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
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Article Subject ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Hydraulics ,0208 environmental biotechnology ,Borehole ,Aquifer ,Soil science ,02 engineering and technology ,Inflow ,01 natural sciences ,Flow measurement ,law.invention ,law ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Advection ,lcsh:QE1-996.5 ,Thermal conduction ,6. Clean water ,020801 environmental engineering ,lcsh:Geology ,13. Climate action ,[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Groundwater ,Geology - Abstract
International audience; This work aims to provide an overview of the thermal processes that shape wellbore temperature profiles under static and dynamicconditions. Understanding of the respective influences of advection and conduction heat fluxes is improved through the useof a new heat budget at the borehole scale. Keeping in mind the thermal processes involved, a qualitative interpretation of thetemperature profiles allows the occurrence, the position, and the origin of groundwater flowing into wellbores from hydraulicallyactive fractures to be constrained.With the use of a heat budget developed at the borehole scale, temperature logging efficiency hasbeen quantitatively enhanced and allows inflow temperatures to be calculated through the simultaneous use of a flowmeter. Undercertain hydraulic or pumping conditions, both inflow intensities and associated temperatures can also be directly modelled fromtemperature data and the use of the heat budget. Theoretical and applied examples of the heat budget application are provided.Applied examples are shown using high-resolution temperature logging, spinner flow metering, and televiewing for three wellsinstalled in fractured bedrock aquifers in the St-Lawrence Lowlands, Quebec, Canada. Through relatively rapid manipulations,thermal measurements in such cases can be used to detect the intervals or discrete positions of hydraulically active fractures inwellbores, as well as the existence of ambient flows with a high degree of sensitivity, even at very low flows. Heat budget calculationsat the borehole scale during pumping indicate that heat advection fluxes rapidly dominate over heat conduction fluxes with theborehole wall. The full characterization of inflow intensities provides information about the distribution of hydraulic propertieswith depth. The full knowledge of inflow temperatures indicates horizons that are drained from within the aquifer, providingadvantageous information on the depth from which groundwater originates during pumping.1. Introduction
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- 2018
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