Dr Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown’s biography

• 2025 to present: Senior geothermal/thermal energy storage scientist
• 2021 to 2024: Research Associate, University of Glasgow
• 2021 to 2021: Assistant Editor, MDPI
• 2015 to 2020: PhD Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham
• 2014 to 2015: MSc Petroleum Geoscience, University of Manchester
• 2011 to 2014: BSc Geology, University of Manchester

Research interests

• Geothermal energy
• Underground thermal energy storage
• Borehole heat exchangers
• Advanced geothermal systems
• Numerical modelling
• Analytical modelling
• Subsurface fluid and heat flow

Projects and collaborations

• REnewable Energy for Future UK Net-Zero Cooling (Reef-UKC) Pump Priming Fund Round 1 – Seed corn funding lead for the project: Investigating mixed-circuit injection-extraction strategies between borehole heat exchangers in a cooling dominated system

ORCID: 0000-0002-4422-6031

Key papers

• Desguers, T, Brown, C S, Kolo, I, Banks, D, Falcone, G, and Friedrich, D. 2024. Short-cycle borehole thermal energy storage: Impact of thermal cycle duration on overall performance. Applied Thermal Engineering, p.124610.
• Brown, C S, Kolo, I, Lyden, A, Franken, L, Kerr, N, Marshall-Cross, D, Watson, S, Falcone, G, Friedrich, D, and Diamond, J. 2024. Assessing the technical potential for underground thermal energy storage in the UK. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 199, p.114545.
• Kolo, I, Brown, C S, Nibbs, W, Cai, W, Falcone, G, Nagel, T, and Chen, C. 2024. A comprehensive review of deep borehole heat exchangers (DBHEs): subsurface modelling studies and applications. Geothermal Energy, 12(1), p.19.
• Brown, C S, Kolo, I, Banks, D, and Falcone, G. 2024. Comparison of the thermal and hydraulic performance of single U-tube, double U-tube and coaxial medium-to-deep borehole heat exchangers. Geothermics, 117, p.102888.
• Brown, C S, Kolo, I, Falcone, G, and Banks, D. 2023. Investigating scalability of deep borehole heat exchangers: Numerical modelling of arrays with varied modes of operation. Renewable Energy.
• Brown, C S, Kolo, I, Falcone, G, and Banks, D. 2023. Repurposing a deep geothermal exploration well for borehole thermal energy storage: Implications from statistical modelling and sensitivity analysis. Applied Thermal Engineering.
• Brown, C S, Doran, H, Kolo, I, Banks, D, and Falcone, G. 2023. Investigating the Influence of Groundwater Flow and Charge Cycle Duration on Deep Borehole Heat Exchangers for Heat Extraction and Borehole Thermal Energy Storage. Energies.
• Kolo, I, Brown, C S, Falcone, G, and Banks, D. 2023. Repurposing a Geothermal Exploration Well as a Deep Borehole Heat Exchanger: Understanding Long-Term Effects of Lithological Layering, Flow Direction, and Circulation Flow Rate, Sustainability.
• Lyden, A, Brown, C S, Kolo, I, Falcone, G, and Friedrich, D. 2022. Seasonal thermal energy storage in smart energy systems: District-level applications and modelling approaches. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
• Brown, C S, Cassidy, N J, Egan, S S, and Griffiths, D. 2021. Numerical modelling of deep coaxial borehole heat exchangers in the Cheshire Basin, UK. Computers & Geosciences.

Chapters

• Falcone, G, Brown, C S, Kolo, I, Banks, D, and Angelidis, O. (In press). Geothermal production, injection and storage engineering. Livescu, S. and Dindoruk, B. (ed.), Geothermal Energy Engineering: Technology Transfer from the Oil and Gas Industry. Elsevier.

Published outputs

• Google Scholar Profile

• 2022 QJEGH William Dearman Early Career Award Winner
• Editorial Board for the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
• Topic Advisory Panel for the journal Processes.
• Member of European Geosciences Union.