WP3 – Temperature

Thermal-plume fibre optic tracking (T-POT) test for flow velocity measurement in groundwater boreholes

Papers - Publications scientifiques

We develop an approach for measuring in-well fluid velocities using point electrical heating combined with spatially and temporally continuous temperature monitoring using distributed temperature sensing (DTS). The method uses a point heater to warm a discrete volume of water. The rate of advection of this plume, once the heating is stopped, equates to the average flow velocity in the well. […]

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Active-Distributed Temperature Sensing to continuously quantify vertical flow in boreholes

Papers - Publications scientifiques

We show how a distributed borehole flowmeter can be created from armored Fiber Optic cables with the Active-Distributed Temperature Sensing (A-DTS) method. The principle is that in a flowing fluid, the difference in temperature between a heated and unheated cable is a function of the fluid velocity. We outline the physical basis of the methodology and report on the deployment […]

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