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Geothermal power generation in China: Status and prospects
Geothermal resources provide green, low‐carbon, and renewable clean energy, with abundant reserves and massive potential for application. The in‐depth analysis of geothermal resources in China, including their distribution and breakdown by shallow ...
Lei Zhang, Shuai Chen, Cun Zhang
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Hydraulic stimulation of tight geothermal reservoirs
To extend geothermal-energy power generation from hydrothermal systems to places without anomalies in the geothermal gradient, fractures of low-permeability rock- typically at 4-6 km depth to find
Tangirala, Sri Kalyan +2 more
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Enhanced Geothermal Systems Project Development Solicitation - Final Report - 09/30/2000 - 02/01/2001 [PDF]
The Enhanced Geothermal System concept is to develop the technology required to extract energy from the reduced permeability zones that underlie all high-temperature geothermal systems.
Nielson, Dennis L.
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Enhanced geothermal system (EGS) technologies have been developed to improve geothermal energy production from hot dry rock (HDR). In this study, discrete fracture network models for geometric topological networks that consider different parameters (the ...
Xueyuan Li +5 more
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Exploring structure and stress from depth to surface in the Wairakei Geothermal Field, New Zealand
Structures such as fractures and faults have an important role as fluid flow pathways in geothermal fields, as the reservoir rocks hosting geothermal resources can often have little to no intrinsic permeability.
Villamor, Pilar +6 more
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Influence Factors on EGS Geothermal Reservoir Extraction Performance
The heat extraction performance of the enhanced geothermal system is simulated by using COMSOL software. The effects of six factors, such as the thermal conductivity of heat reservoir, matrix permeability, fracture width, injection temperature, injection
Haitao Wang, Lijuan Wang, Zude Cheng
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Design and productivity evaluation of multi-lateral well enhanced geothermal development system
Enhanced geothermal development system is an effective means to develop hot dry rock geothermal resources, and its reasonable structural design is crucial to the efficient exploitation of hot dry rocks.
Jie Zhang, Jingxuan Xie
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Outcrop analogue study to determine reservoir properties of the Los Humeros and Acoculco geothermal fields, Mexico [PDF]
The Los Humeros geothermal system is steam dominated and currently under exploration with 65 wells (23 producing). Having temperatures above 380 °C, the system is characterized as a super hot geothermal system (SHGS).
L. M. Weydt +11 more
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Development of an Enhanced Two-Phase Production System at the Geysers Geothermal Field [PDF]
A method was developed to enhance geothermal steam production from two-phase wells at THE Geysers Geothermal Field. The beneficial result was increased geothermal production that was easily and economically delivered to the power ...
Enedy, Steven
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Oil and gas operations in sedimentary basins have revealed the occurrence of significant temperature anomalies at depth, raising the possibility of major geothermal resource potential in the sedimentary sequences.
Oladoyin Kolawole +4 more
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