Geothermal potential of low enthalpy reservoirs in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Here we investigate Mesozoic and Paleozoic porous aquifer systems with different grades of temperature reservoirs to meet growing heat demand and sustain government infrastructure overlying The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Canada, where winters are cold (average daily temperature below −4 °C) and direct heat is an essential energy demand. Two stratigraphic intervals were modeled and simulated for geothermal heat production systems: conventional and closed loop. We estimated that 2.93 MWth and 6.9 MWth heat energy can be generated over 30 years of operation in the Mesozoic (300–500 m depth; 100 m thickness, 16 °C reservoir temperature, 1 D permeability, 0.3 porosity, 180 m 3 /h flow rate, 800 m well spacing) and Paleozoic (1400-1200 m depth, 100 m thickness, 35 °C reservoir temperature, 10 mD permeability, 0.1 porosity, a 180 m 3 /h flow rate, 400 m spacing) respectively. This study highlights the geothermal potential of the WCSB as a viable opportunity. • Stratigraphic horizons with geothermal potential near communities were identified in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. • Geothermal simulations used regional data to model doublet well and closed-loop systems based on formation lithology. • Up to 6.9 MWth over 30 years can be produced by either method, depending on reservoir depth and total wellbore length.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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