SUIVI D'UN TEST GEOTHERMIQUE PEU PROFOND DANS UN AQUIFERE SABLEUX PAR TOMOGRAPHIE DE RESISTIVITE ELECTRIQUE : ETUDE DE FAISABILITE

A shallow thermal test was monitored with electrical resistivity tomography (ERT). Heated water (48°C) was injected in a sandy aquifer (10°C). Laboratory measurements indicated a change of 2.1 %/°C of water electrical conductivity for injection water. Due to this change, the plume of heated water was detected by geophysical imaging. In parallel, a hydrogeological flow and heat transport model was calibrated. Geophysics brought important information to calibrate this model and to show the heat exchange through the unsaturated zone. The comparison of the two models shows that ERT was able to retrieve the position and the temperature of the plume. However, a distortion occurs due to the smoothing of the solution during the regularized inversion process. This work demonstrates the ability of ERT to help quantifying parameters governing heat transport in the subsurface non-invasively and therefore studying and designing heat and storage experiments for shallow reservoirs.