Orthogonal Test Analysis on Conditions Affecting Electricity Generation Performance of an Enhanced Geothermal System at Yangbajing Geothermal Field

Small Capacity Geothermal Binary Power Generation System

Japan is a volcanic country having abundant geothermal resources. To date, Japan has 20 geothermal power generation facilities, with a total installed capacity of 550 MW. Most of these facilities are large capacity geothermal power plants constructed by utility power companies, but due to various circumstances, there are no further plans to build large capacity plants in the near future. The Ne...

ENGINE Coordination Action (ENhanced Geothermal Innovative Network for Europe) BEST PRACTICE HANDBOOK for the development of Unconventional Geothermal Resources with a focus on ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM

In Situ Stress, Fracture, and Fluid Flow Analysis in Well 38c-9: an Enhanced Geothermal System in the Coso Geothermal Field

Geoscientists from the Coso Operating Company, EGI-Utah, GeoMechanics International, and the U.S. Geological Survey are cooperating in a multi-year study to develop an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) in the Coso Geothermal Field. Key to the creation of an EGS is an understanding of the relationship among natural fracture distribution, fluid flow, and the ambient tectonic stresses that exist wi...

Designing multi-well layout for enhanced geothermal system to better exploit hot dry rock geothermal energy

Heat extraction mode, e.g. well layout or arrangement of wells, of enhanced or engineered geothermal system (EGS) is crucial to its performance and directly affects its commercial viability. Assuming the subsurface target hot dry rock (HDR) has been well-fractured and the created heat reservoir can be treated as a homogeneous porous medium, we numerically simulate the long-term heat extraction ...

The Performance of Geothermal Field Modeling in Distributed Component Environment

—An implementation and performance analysis of heat transfer modeling using most popular component environments is a scope of this article. The computational problem is described, and the proposed solution of decomposition for parallelization is shown. The implementation is prepared for MS .NET, Sun Java and Mono. Tests are done for various operating systems and hardware platform combinations. ...