Extending MULKOM to Super-Critical Temperatures and Pressures
- Key words
- super-critical water brines modelling MULKOM
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 1995
- Session
- SECTION 6 - Resource Evaluation and Modeling
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 3-kissling
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Abstract
This paper describes some recent work which aimed at extending the MULKOM geothermal simulator to higher temperatures and pressures. The formulation of Arnold (1970) for the thermodynamic properties of super-critical water has been used to extend the operating range of MULKOM to temperatures of 800?C and pressures of bars. In addition, work has begun on a high temperature version of MULKOM which includes the transport of salt. We discuss some of the research problems which motivate this work and give examples of situations where high temperatures and pressures are encountered.
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