| Policies and Procedures Developed by BLM to Improve Permitting of Geothermal Exploration and Development Projects in Nevada |
Mallory, Sheila; Thomsen, Paul |
Laws and regulations; Permitting; Energy policy |
BLM; permitting; Nevada; regulatory; policy issues; public lands; NEPA |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Recent RFP Experience and the Undervaluation of Geothermal Resources |
Linvill, Carl; Candelaria, John; Elder, Catherine; Thomsen, Paul |
Energy markets; Energy policy; Renewable energy |
Utility regulation; renewable energy policy; procurement; economics; geothermal resource valuation |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Geothermal Regional Water Resource Assessment |
Harto, Chris; Clark, Corrie |
Water consumption; Economics |
EGS; hydrothermal; life cycle; growth projections; water; resource assessment |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Lessons Learned on the Road to Regulatory Nirvana for Geothermal Resource Development |
Goldstein, Barry; Bendall, Betina; Webb, Mieka; Malavazos, Michael |
Laws and regulations; Energy policy; Permitting |
Regulation; geothermal; engineered geothermal systems; hot sedimentary aquifers; Australia; regulatory capture; onestop-shop; Habanero EGS Project; Paralana EGS Project; Salamander HSA Project |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Water Use in Geopressured Geothermal Systems |
Clark, Corrie; Harto, Chris |
Geopressured reservoirs; Water consumption; Operations manag |
Life cycle; geopressured; binary; water; water consumption |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Image Classification of Individual Trees: Case Study of Wanjohi Area, Re-Charge Source of Menengai Geothermal Field, Kenya |
Chepkochei, Lucy Chepkosgei |
Exploration; Biogeography; Remote sensing; Satellite imagery |
Hydro-geological controls; object-oriented image classification; IMAGINE Objective; geothermal |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Towards a Framework for Understanding Knowledge and Support for the Use of Geothermal Energy in Australia |
Carr-Cornish, S. G.; Ashworth, P. N.; Romanach, L.; Huddlestone-Holmes, C. R.; Hobman, E. V.; Dowd, A.-M. |
Public outreach |
Australia; community engagement; geothermal energy; public perception; social acceptance |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Production Test of Kalina System Using Hot Spring Fluid at Geopressure Field in Japan |
Yanagisawa, Norio; Muraoka, Hirofumi; Sasaki, Munetake; Sugita, Hajime; Ioka, Sei-ichiro; Sato, Masatake; Osato, Kazumi |
Power plant design and operation; Binary cycle power generat |
Hot spring; Kalina cycle; power generation; geopressure; production rate |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Silica Scaling Mechanism at Cerro Prieto |
Miranda-Herrera, Carlos A. |
Silica; Scaling |
Silica scaling; silica gel; heat exchangers; binary power plant; organic Rankine cycle; Mexico; Cerro Prieto |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Las Pailas 35 MW (Net) Binary Power Plant, Rincon de la Vieja, Guanacaste, Costa Rica |
Moya, Paul; DiPippo, Ronald |
Drilling; Power plant design and operation |
Las Pailas; Costa Rica; well data; binary power plant; cycle analysis; thermal efficiency; utilization efficiency; availability; plant factor; environmental impact |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Technical Assessment of the Combined Heat and Power Plant at the Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon |
Boyd, Tonya; DiPippo, Ronald |
Power plant design and operation; Binary cycle power generat |
Combined heat-power; binary cycle; R245fa; thermal efficiency; utilization efficiency; Oregon Institute of Technology |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Calpine Achieves Accurate Steam Flow Measurement with Top-Mounted Annubar Flowmeter |
Balzer, Alan; Verhaagen, Don; Ershen, Catherine |
Equipment design; Flowmeters |
Flow measurement; turbine proving; turbine; steam flow measurement; main steam line (MSL); turbine flow; orifice plate; nitrogen purge; Annubar™ flowmeter |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Geothermal Power Generation in China: Past and Future |
Keyan Zheng |
Geothermal overviews |
Geothermal; power generation; capacity factor; resources superiority; barrier; China |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Air-Cooled Binary Rankine Cycle Performance with Varying Ambient Temperature |
Varney, Josephine; Bean, Nigel |
Power plant cooling; Organic Rankine cycle; Binary cycle pow |
Air-cooling; ambient temperature; binary Rankine cycle; supercritical heat exchanger |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Ormat Plants: From Remote Monitoring to Remote Operation |
Reshef, Ran; Fever, Tomas |
Operations management; Power plant design and operation; Rem |
Remotely controlled geothermal plant; remote monitoring; remote operations; vibrations monitoring system; wide area network; WAN; HMI |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Estimation of Steam Pipeline Network Heat Losses at the Cerro Prieto Geothermal Field Based on Pipeline Thermal Insulation Conditions |
Ovando-Castelar, Rosember; Martinez-Estrella, Juan I.; Garcia-Gutierrez, Alfonso; Canchola-Felix, Ismael; Miranda-Herrera, Carlos A.; Jacobo-Galvan, Vicente P. |
Pipelines; Thermodynamics |
Cerro Prieto geothermal field; Mexico; steam pipeline transportation network; thermal insulation conditions; heat losses |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Concentrated Solar and Geothermal Hybrid Power Project |
Nelson, Guy; Larsen, Garth |
Power plant design and operation; Hybrid power generation; E |
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Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Laboratory and In-Situ Corrosion Studies in Geothermal Environments |
Mundhenk, N.; Huttenloch, P.; Kohl, T.; Steger, H.; Zorn, R. |
Corrosion; Durability testing; Brine chemistry; Electrochemi |
Sweet corrosion; scaling; in-situ; laboratory; electrochemistry; Soultz-sous-Forêts (France) |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Proposal for Harnessing Self Sustaining Geothermal Energy for Production of Electricity: “Self Contained In-Ground Geothermal Generator” (SCI-GGG) |
Lakic, Nikola |
Equipment design; Downhole heat exchangers |
Geothermal; energy; electricity; geothermal energy; electricity production; renewable energy; generator; heat exchanger; condenser; self contained in-ground geothermal generator |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |
| Review of the Bottle Rock Power Stretford Unit to Prepare for Future Increases in Power Plant Throughput |
Kendrick, Cheri; McIntush, Kenneth E.; Mamrosh, Darryl L.; Beitler, Carrie Ann M.; Hileman, O. E. |
Effluent abatement; Hydrogen sulfide; Equipment design |
Geothermal; noncondensable gas; NCG; The Geysers; H2S Abatement; Stretford; hydrogen sulfide removal; sulfur recovery; air sparger; oxidizer |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2012 |
English |