In the development of geothermal sources for power generation, production of geothermal fluids as well as reinjection becomes an important aspect for significant heat extraction from the reservoir rock. The purpose of this work was to understand how cold water injection in five spot pattern affected the temperature distributions and production pressures in a physical model with a constant temperature heat source. The production and injection rates were varied as well as their respective depths. The model is a hot water dominated system with crushed limestone of 0.6-0.9 cm particle size as the reservoir rock, which had 40% porosity, 58 darcy permeability. The analysis revealed that injection rate should be at least 2/3 of production rate (measured as condensed water) so that the pressure decline at the producing end was stopped. Heat extraction from the system was high when injection was done towards the top of the model while production horizon was deeper.

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