Vertical Temperature Gradients Within Discharging Steam-Water Boreholes Can Indicate Flow-Rate
- Key words
- Well Testing; New Zealand; Temperature Gradient; Pressure; Flowing
- Location
- Wairakei, New Zealand; Taupo Volcanic Zone
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1980
- Session
- Temperature gradients; Well testing; Flow testing; Well logg
- Language
- English
Abstract
Unfortunately, few temperature profiles have been taken in flowing geothermal boreholes. This is a pity, because astonishingly enough, the three experiments studied here give a straight-line relationship for temperature with depth. Moreover, this gradient is apparently simply correlated with both hole diameter and flow rate as in the equation T/km=10.69 (wt/d).
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