Long-term experience of the thermo-active ground source system at the metro station Taborstrasse in Vienna

Four of the stations newly opened during the underground extension of the U2 line in Vienna in 2008 have been covering a large part of their heating and cooling needs for now almost one and a half decades by using geothermal energy, which is generated by means of energy diaphragm walls, energy pile...

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Main Authors: Dietmar Adam, Adrian Brunner, Roman Markiewicz, Johannes Pistrol
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Published: Czech Technical University in Prague 2023-12-01
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Online Access:https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/APP/article/view/9545
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description Four of the stations newly opened during the underground extension of the U2 line in Vienna in 2008 have been covering a large part of their heating and cooling needs for now almost one and a half decades by using geothermal energy, which is generated by means of energy diaphragm walls, energy piles and energy bottom slabs of the station buildings. As this was the first infrastructure building of this type and scale worldwide at the time of construction, one of the diaphragm walls of the Taborstraße station was equipped with numerous sensors to obtain data sets for the thermo-mechanical long-term behavior of these wall elements for the very first time. Continuous measurements with automatic data recording were initially carried out from April 2008 until May 2011. In October 2020, the measurements were resumed with the existing sensors, this time manually and once a month, in order to carry out a long-term comparison of the measurement data and to create a basis for assessing the effects of the geothermal operation on its structural components. This paper gives an overview of the Taborstraße station with a focus on the thermally activated geostructures and their instrumentation. A comparison of the recorded generated energy with the predicted heating and cooling demand is discussed in the context of the energy data. In addition, the temperature and the strain behavior of the observed energy diaphragm wall is discussed based on the measurement data collected over a period of around 14 years of operational experience.
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spelling doaj-art-b3f2aa563e5e445592cb3da9ac7ee99f2025-08-20T02:54:42ZengCzech Technical University in PragueActa Polytechnica CTU Proceedings2336-53822023-12-014510.14311/APP.2023.45.0001Long-term experience of the thermo-active ground source system at the metro station Taborstrasse in ViennaDietmar Adam0Adrian Brunner1Roman Markiewicz2Johannes Pistrol3TU Wien, Institute of Geotechnics, Karlsplatz 13/220, A-1040 Vienna, AustriaTU Wien, Institute of Geotechnics, Karlsplatz 13/220, A-1040 Vienna, AustriaTU Wien, Institute of Geotechnics, Karlsplatz 13/220, A-1040 Vienna, AustriaTU Wien, Institute of Geotechnics, Karlsplatz 13/220, A-1040 Vienna, Austria Four of the stations newly opened during the underground extension of the U2 line in Vienna in 2008 have been covering a large part of their heating and cooling needs for now almost one and a half decades by using geothermal energy, which is generated by means of energy diaphragm walls, energy piles and energy bottom slabs of the station buildings. As this was the first infrastructure building of this type and scale worldwide at the time of construction, one of the diaphragm walls of the Taborstraße station was equipped with numerous sensors to obtain data sets for the thermo-mechanical long-term behavior of these wall elements for the very first time. Continuous measurements with automatic data recording were initially carried out from April 2008 until May 2011. In October 2020, the measurements were resumed with the existing sensors, this time manually and once a month, in order to carry out a long-term comparison of the measurement data and to create a basis for assessing the effects of the geothermal operation on its structural components. This paper gives an overview of the Taborstraße station with a focus on the thermally activated geostructures and their instrumentation. A comparison of the recorded generated energy with the predicted heating and cooling demand is discussed in the context of the energy data. In addition, the temperature and the strain behavior of the observed energy diaphragm wall is discussed based on the measurement data collected over a period of around 14 years of operational experience. https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/APP/article/view/9545environmental geotechnicsrenewable energygeothermal energyenergy geo-structures
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Long-term experience of the thermo-active ground source system at the metro station Taborstrasse in Vienna
Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings
environmental geotechnics
renewable energy
geothermal energy
energy geo-structures
title Long-term experience of the thermo-active ground source system at the metro station Taborstrasse in Vienna
title_full Long-term experience of the thermo-active ground source system at the metro station Taborstrasse in Vienna
title_fullStr Long-term experience of the thermo-active ground source system at the metro station Taborstrasse in Vienna
title_full_unstemmed Long-term experience of the thermo-active ground source system at the metro station Taborstrasse in Vienna
title_short Long-term experience of the thermo-active ground source system at the metro station Taborstrasse in Vienna
title_sort long term experience of the thermo active ground source system at the metro station taborstrasse in vienna
topic environmental geotechnics
renewable energy
geothermal energy
energy geo-structures
url https://ojs.cvut.cz/ojs/index.php/APP/article/view/9545
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