Accession Number:

ADA295513

Title:

Thermal Design of an Antarctic Water Well.

Descriptive Note:

Special rept.,

Corporate Author:

COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH

Personal Author(s):

• Lunardini, Virgil J.
• Rand, John

Report Date:

1995-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

103.0

Abstract:

The thermal and mechanical aspects of a potable water reservoir, formed at depth in a permanent snowfield in Antarctica, are detailed. The thermal model can be used for preliminary design, to predict reservoir size and depth, water temperature and mass, and energy requirements as a function of time. Predictions are made for the South Pole environment, but the model is valid for other permanent snowfields. The reservoir characteristics are influenced by the rate and timing of potable water removal during the lifetime of the reservoir.

Descriptors:

• *THERMAL PROPERTIES
• *DRINKING WATER
• *WATER WELLS
• *ANTARCTIC REGIONS
• TEMPERATURE
• REMOVAL
• ENVIRONMENTS
• SIZES(DIMENSIONS)
• MODELS
• WATER
• LIFE SPAN(BIOLOGY)
• ENERGY CONSUMPTION
• RESERVOIRS
• SNOWFIELDS

Subject Categories:

• Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology
• Civil Engineering
• Thermodynamics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE