Computer Aided Design of Geothermal Well Head Equipments - a Preliminary Study

Abstract

Different well head equipments are required for geothermal wells with different fluid parameters and different utilization systems. Appropriate choice and reasonable design of well head equipments are of importance because the geothermal well is the key to the overall utilization system. The authors began the research project of geothermal well head equipments in 1983 and the equipments include well pumps, separators, heat exchangers, downhole heat exchangers, sand removers and pipes. Beginning from this year (1988) we started trying computer aided design of the well head equipments. This paper summarized our effort on this work.