| Economic Cost Comparison of Geothermal and Other Technologies |
Gehringer, Magnus |
Energy policy; Economics; Energy markets; Renewable energy; |
Economics; financing; screening curve; load duration curve; technology; comparison; LCOE; generation cost; investment cost; developing countries |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Exergetic Optimization of Proposed Takigami Binary Geothermal Power Plant, Oita, Japan |
Jalilinasrabady, Saeid; Itoi, Ryuichi; Gotoh, Hiroki; Yamashiro, Rie |
Power plant design and operation; Binary cycle power generat |
Takigami geothermal power plant; binary cycle; optimization; exergy; EES |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Puna Geothermal Venture 8MW Expansion |
Kaleikini, Mike; Spielman, Paul; Buchanan, Tom |
Power plant design and operation |
Hawaii; Puna; Ormat; Organic Rankine Cycle; modular; geothermal; silica scale; pH lowering; bottom; two-level |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Evaporative Cooling Enhancement at the Steamboat Complex and Condenser Performance Research and Development Efforts |
Kaplan, Uri; Reiss, Zvi; Sullivan, Bob |
Condensers |
Ormat Technologies; Ormat; Organic Rankine Cycle; Galena 3; geothermal power plant; Thermal Performance Analysis; evaporative cooling; fogging system; water-assisted air cooling |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Air Cooling Options for Flash Plants |
Louw, Roubaix; Wallace, Kevin; Harvey, William |
Power plant design and operation; Condensers; Flash steam po |
Air cooling; air cooled condenser; flash plant; hybrid cooling; surface condenser; water consumption |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Turbine Upgrade for Geysers Geothermal Power Plant |
Maedomari, Junichiro; Avery, John |
Turbines |
Turbine; upgrade; The Geysers; geothermal power plant |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Improving Binary Cycle Efficiency by Eliminating Parasitic Loads |
Pierce, Michael; Fryrear, Ken; Marshall, Dave |
Power plant design and operation; Binary cycle power generat |
Geothermal power plant; thermosiphon; gravity head; expander pump; downhole heat exchanger; organic Rankine cycle; binary cycle; hydrothermal |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Mitsubishi's Reliable Solutions and Domestic Service Infrastructure |
Riaz, Muhammad; Sanchez, Marco; Grace, Scott |
Turbines; Corrosion; Stress corrosion cracking; Scaling; Org |
OEM products; OEM Services; rotor upgrades; last stage blades; blade path upgrades; reliability; component repair |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Best Exergy Point For ORC |
Schuller, Stephane |
Power plant design and operation; Organic Rankine cycle; Bin |
Organic Rankine Cycle; binary cycle; exergy; efficiency; geothermal brine; propane; isobutane; R134a; turbine; regenerator |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Construction and Startup of Low Temperature Geothermal Power Plants |
Welch, Phil; Boyle, Patrick; Giron, Michelle; Sells, Marc |
Kalina cycle; Variable phase cycle; Organic Rankine cycle; B |
Kalina cycle; variable phase cycle; organic Rankine cycle; ORC; binary cycle;geothermal utilization; low temperature geothermal; efficiency; exergy; thermodynamic cycle; radial outflow turbine; axial impulse turbine |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Effect of Ambient Design Temperature on Air-Cooled Binary Plant Output |
Wendt, Daniel; Mines, Greg |
Power plant design and operation; Binary cycle power generat |
Air-cooled binary plant; ambient temperature; EGS temperature decline; plant design; plant optimization; geothermal fluid exit temperature limit; minimum turbine inlet entropy; retrograde dew point curve |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Effect of Mixed Working Fluid Composition on Binary Cycle Condenser Heat Transfer Coefficients |
Wendt, Dan; Mines, Gregory |
Binary cycle power generation; Working fluids; Condensers; I |
Binary cycles; working fluid mixtures; condenser; heat transfer; heat transfer coefficients |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Smart Nanosensors for In-Situ Temperature Measurement in Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs |
Alaskar, Mohammed; Ames, Morgan; Chong Liu; Connor, Steve; Horne, Roland N.; Kewen Li; Yi Cui |
Tracer testing; Fractures; Reservoir modeling |
Nanofluid; nanosensors; nanoparticles; temperature; fractured reservoir; Enhanced geothermal; dye-attached silica; tin-bismuth |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Use of Wellbore Simulation as a Tool to Evaluate Well Issues in Mature Geothermal Fields |
Alvarez, Ryan R.; Cinco, Fra-Olalem R. |
Reservoir modeling |
Geothermal; wellbore simulation; well issues; Philippines; Tiwi; Mak-Ban |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| A Review of the Production Parameters for Analysis of the Reservoir Performance |
Aragon, Alfonso; Izquierdo, Georgina; Arellano,Victor |
Reservoir modeling |
Maximum mass flow rate; static pressure; reservoir characterization; production wells; decline production; geothermal |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Using Long Case Histories to Study Hydrothermal Renewability and Sustainable Utilization |
Axelsson, Gudni |
Reservoir management; Reservoir cooling; Low temperature res |
Geothermal; renewability; sustainable use; production response; production capacity; case history; boundary conditions |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Geothermal Energy Production from Actively-Managed C02 Storage in Saline Formations |
Buscheck, Thomas A.; Yunwei Sun; Yue Hao; Mingjie Chen; Court, Benjamin; Celia, Michael A.; Bourcier, William L.; Wolery, Thomas J. |
Carbon dioxide sequestration; Sedimentary formations; Inject |
CO2 capture and sequestration (CCS); sedimentary formations; binary-cycle geothermal; injectivity; horizontal wells |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| Characterization of Geothermal Interwell Connectivity Using Thermal and Tracer Data |
Co, Carla Kathryn; Horne, Roland N. |
Reservoir modeling; Tracer testing; Injection; Fractures |
Geothermal; tracer breakthrough; connectivity; thermal; production; injection; fractures; aperture; reservoir |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| The Comparison of Boron Cycling and Tracer Test Result at Darajat Geothermal Field and Its Usefulness for Production and Injection Management |
Dawud H., Abu; Roberts, Jeffrey; Sugandhi, Arias; Setiawan, Junior; Molling, Philip |
Boron; Tracer testing; Injection; Reservoir management |
Darajat; boron cycling; tracer; injectate-condensate; well connectivity; geothermal; vapor dominated |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |
| A Numerical and Experimental Procedure to Estimate Grid Based Effective Permeability Tensor for Geothermal Reservoirs |
Fahad, M.; Rahman, S. S.; Cinar, Y. |
Permeability; Fractures; Reservoir modeling |
Effective permeability tensor; naturally fractured reservoirs; boundary element method; heterogeneous system; glass bead model |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2011 |
English |