A snow-melting system using reservoir and geothermal heat-exchanging well

Heating in a Geothermal Reservoir

A computer program in Visual Basic 6.0 is written to calculate steam tables for pure water up to 800oC and 1400 bar. The steam tables are created as a DLL (Dynamic Link Library) object with properties: temperature, pressure, specific volume, enthalpy and entropy for liquid and vapor phases, and liquidvapor state. The steam tables can be incorporated in any computer program on the Windows platfo...

Modeling Convective Heat Transfer in a Geothermal Heat Pump System

A Simulation Tool for the Hydronic Bridge Snow Melting System

The design of hydronic heating systems for bridge snow melting requires assessment of longterm performance under expected future weather conditions, especially when geothermal energy is used as the heat source. This is important to be able to predict the snow melting performance, analyze the economics, and investigate the effects of controls and design parameters on the system performance. A si...

Determining the Snow Coefficient in order to simulate the snow melting in the Shemshak Watershed Using the WetSpa Model

In mountainous regions, snow forms a part of the precipitation. Therefore, snow melting is an important process in hydrology and hydraulic in these areas that its role should be considered independently in runoff generation. The Shemshak watershed basin located in Tehran province was selected as the study area of this research to examine the efficiency of the WetSpa hydrologic model to simulate...

Precise Gravimetry and Geothermal Reservoir Management

Modern portable gravimeters can routinely achieve a 5 ugal uncertainty with careful measurement procedures involving multiple station occupations in the same day, and stacking of readings over at least 15 minutes during each occupation. Although further improvements in gravimeter accuracy are feasible, other practical factors relating to repeat surveys of geothermal fields make such improvement...