The use of downhole heat exchangers
- Key words
- downhole heat exchanger, Klamath Falls, convection cell, space heating
- Location
- Klamath Falls, Oregon
- Conference
- European Geothermal Conference
- Year
- 2003
- Session
- Power generation
- Language
- English
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Abstract
The downhole heat exchanger (DHE), used extensively in Klamath Falls, Oregon, in over 500
installations, and in Turkey and New Zealand, provides heating for one or more homes, schools,
and apartment buildings from a single geothermal well. The DHE eliminates the problem of
disposal of geothermal fluid, since only heat is extracted from the well. The heat exchangers
consisting of a loop of pipes or tubes suspended in the geothermal well through which
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