Integrating small power plants into agricultural projects
- Key words
- Flash steam, binary power plants, Kalina cycle, Rankine cycle
- Conference
- European Geothermal Conference
- Year
- 2003
- Session
- Agricultural direct use
- Language
- English
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Abstract
The integration of small geothermal power generation projects (<5 MWe) with agribusiness and agriculture product production, processing, distillation or dehydration facilities is rapidly growing in popularity. This trend is a result of advancements in the generation of electricity from low to moderate temperature geothermal resources (100?C-150?C) and the economic advantage that full use of the resource, once pumped from the well(s), provides. Developers are evaluating or building projects that use both topping as well as bottoming cycles. Generation technologies include organic rankine cycle, kalina cycle and low temperature flash steam.
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