Staff profile

October 2021 - Present: PhD, Durham University

Jan 2021 - Sept 2021: Project Coordinator on the Met4Tech (www.Met4Tech.org)

August 2018 - November 2020: Graduate Research Assitant, University of Exeter

October 2014 - June 2018: MSci Earth Science, Durham University

My PhD Research

The Heat Beneath Our Feet: modelling groundwater flow and heat transfer in abandoned coal mines for minewater geothermal energy.

I will be using MatLab and ArcGIS to model groundwater flow and heat transfer in abandoned coal mines. I will be researching how water flow within the mine systems affects the siting of the abstraction and re-injection wells, as well as establishing some generic rules for having multiple users in one mine system.

Journal Article

• The need to regulate thermal interference between mine water geothermal systems: a UK perspective
  
  Sweeney, A., van Hunen, J., Mouli-Castillo, J., & Gluyas, J. (2025). The need to regulate thermal interference between mine water geothermal systems: a UK perspective. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 58(2), Article qjegh2024-185. https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2024-185