The Direct Application of Geothermal Energy for Industrial Processing
- Key words
- Direct Use; Economics; Oregon; Process Heat; USA; Oregon; Ontario; Frozen Food; Heat Exchangers; Retrofit; Plate Heat Exchanger; Cascade Use; Demonstration; Cost Estimate; 320 F Water; US DOE; Ore-Ida Foods; OIT
- Location
- Ontario, Oregon
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1979
- Session
- Direct use; Economics; Heat exchangers; Industrial applicati
- Language
- English
Abstract
Geothermal water at 300°F could provide approximately 50 percent of certain industrial process energy requirements, where sufficient quantity water is available. A federal government cost sharing program has facilitated a major frozen food processor's development of geothermal energy in the Northwest. The geothermal energy will be used to heat low temperature process water by utilizing heat exchangers and retrofitting the process equi8pment. The planned geothermal system includes two production wells, a transmission main, a complex of plate heat exchangers, and a deep injection well. The cascade principle is employed to extract the usable energy from the geothermal water.
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