Use of Available Geothermal Moderate Temperature Resources for Power Generation Re: The Heber Binary Cycle Demonstration Plant
- Key words
- Power Generation; Production; USA; California; Binary Cycle; Power Plant Design; Single Flash; Turbine; Thermodynamics; Corrosion; Rankine Cycle; Heat Exchanger
- Location
- Heber, California; Imperial Valley
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1982
- Session
- Binary cycle power generation; Liquid dominated reservoirs;
- Language
- English
Abstract
The Heber Binary Cycle Demonstration Plan is undertaken to provide, on a commercially viable scale, an energy conversion technology utilizing our liquid dominated, moderate temperature geothermal resources. Use of these abundant reserouce, available in many areas of the USA, would be denied the nation without an effective and economical means to convert the energy of the hot geothermal brine into economical and available electric power. This paper discusses the technical considerations supporting the plant design criteria and power cycle definition for this first commercially sized binary cycle geothermal power plants.
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