Heat Recovering Through Acidification: An Economic Analysis
- Key words
- Power Engineering; Mexico; Sonora; Cerro Prieto; Binary; Bottoming Cycles; Silica; Case Histories; Scaling; Spent Brines; Economics
- Location
- Cerro Prieto, Mexico
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 1989
- Session
- Silica; Scaling; Economics
- Language
- English
Abstract
The temperature of flashed brines at Cerro Prieto Geothermal Field suggests a heat recovering study. However, scale formation in equipment, due to supersaturation, becomes one of the most important restrictions to develop a heat transfer process. Previous reports of experiments carried out with this brine showed that it is possible to reduce the scale deposition through acidification. This paper presents a feasibility study to recover heat from waste brines.
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