Performance and Feasibility of Forced Geoheat Recovery for Low Temperature Applications
- Key words
- Direct Use; Artificial Reservoirs; Pumped Reservoirs; Fault Controlled; Economic Evaluation; Feasibility Study; Space Heating; Loop Performance; USA; Pacific Northwest; US DOE Study
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1979
- Session
- Direct use; Low temperature reservoirs; Economics; Feasibili
- Language
- English
Abstract
Forced geoheat recovery (FGR), the procedure of producing geothermal energy by partially or totally forced circulation of fluids through formations and structures that have suitably high natural fluid conductivity and temperature, represent a way for making geothermal energy available over a much larger areal extent than that of convecting hydrothermal systems. This type of recovery is envisioned in two main types of geological provinces that occur in the Pacific Northwest, the deep rudimentary basins and the flood basalt areas such as the Columbia River and Snake River Plateaus.
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