Mobile Well Site Test Equipment to Provide Hydrodynamic/Kinetic Reaction and Power Plant Design Data
- Key words
- Power Generation; Production; Reservoir Engineering; USA; California; East Mesa; Thermodynamics; Single Flash; Coupons; Scale; Flash Tanks; Pipe Lines; Two Phase; Sulfides; Silica Chemistry
- Location
- East Mesa, California; Imperial Valley
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1981
- Session
- Scaling; Two phase flow; Flash steam power generation
- Language
- English
Abstract
Aerojet Energy Conversion Company, under contract to Los Alamos National Laboratory/U.S. Department of energy, has constructed mobile well site test equipment. The equipment simulates geothermal power cycle conditions and provides data for the study of the interactions between the hydrodynamics of a single phase brine and the kinetics of scale formation. Equipment can presently control, monitor, and record all surface conditions a geothermal brine may experience while undergoing a single or double flash energy conversion process. The unit is designed to be operated in parallel with, or independent of, well flow tests and can accommodate flow rates up to 300 gpm.
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