Rotokawa: Steamfield Technical Overview
- Key words
- Rotokawa steamfield, production, reinjection, Tauhara north 2 power station, New Zealand
- Location
- Rotokawa, New Zealand; Taupo Volcanic Zone
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 1995
- Session
- SECTION 9 - Power Generation
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 3-taylor
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Abstract
It is proposed to develop an geothermal power project using the Rotokawa Geothermal Resource. The critical factors in the design of the were: limited local electricity market high silica saturation temperature The final selection of the separation pressure (19 was dominated by the silica deposition restraints and the desire to minimise the installed cost of generation per output.
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