{"id":484877,"date":"2025-08-11T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geo-zs.si\/projekt\/geo-opt-uporaba-opticnih-vlaken-za-oceno-ucinkov-podzemnega-prenosa-toplote-in-toka-vode\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T01:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:17:44","slug":"geo-opt-uporaba-opticnih-vlaken-za-oceno-ucinkov-podzemnega-prenosa-toplote-in-toka-vode","status":"publish","type":"projekt","link":"https:\/\/www.geo-zs.si\/en\/projekt\/geo-opt-uporaba-opticnih-vlaken-za-oceno-ucinkov-podzemnega-prenosa-toplote-in-toka-vode\/","title":{"rendered":"Geo-OPT - Using optical fibres to assess the effects of underground heat transfer and water flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The main objective of the Geo-OPT project was to transfer knowledge about the use of optical fibres in hydrogeology and geothermal energy from Canada to Slovenia for the thermolithological characterisation of strata and the evaluation of heat and flow transfer effects in the subsurface. This international collaboration and knowledge transfer is an extension of the collaboration within the UNESCO IGCP 636 project Geothermal Resources for the Energy Transition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Guest researcher Fiona M. Chapman is a PhD student at the INRS – Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Quebec City, Canada. During her 3-month research stay, she shared her knowledge about the use of DTS optical fibres in hydrogeology and geothermal energy with our young researcher Karlo Borko and the rest of the project team.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

During the Geo-OPT project, we conducted distributed temperature measurements (DTS) in two experimental setups in boreholes with different effects of groundwater flow velocities, which has not been done in Slovenia before. One of them was our newly established geothermal natural laboratory – a 100 m deep research geoprobe drilled in November 2024 in the Kr\u0161ko Basin with funding from the MKGP-ARIS CRP project V1-2213 GeoCOOL-FOOD<\/a>. The second one was a borehole in a highly saturated and fissured rock with evident groundwater flow effect in the dolomite. Research papers on the experimental results have been prepared but are yet to be published.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n