| Coordinating Permit Offices and the Development of Utility-Scale Geothermal Energy |
Levine, Aaron; Young, Katherine; Witherbee, Kermit |
Laws and regulations; Energy Policy; Permitting |
Utility-scale geothermal power plant; regulation; policy; coordinating permit offices; Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap; GRR; BLM; Hawaii; Alaska |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Air Quality and Plant Eco-Physiological Responses around Geothermal Power Plants in Iceland and Kenya |
Mutia, Thecla; Jonsdottir, Ingibjörg Svala; Fridriksson, Prainn |
Air quality; Hydrogen sulfide; Environmental aspects; Ecolog |
Environmental; Racomitrium langinosum; Tarchonanthus camphoratus; plant injury; emissions; power plants |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Utilizing Federal Policy Documentation to Obtain Project-Level Water Data for Geothermal Energy Facilities |
Schroeder, Jenna N.; Harto, Chris B.; Clark, Corrie E. |
Energy policy; Environmental aspects; Water quality; Water c |
Life cycle; water; water consumption; NEPA; policy; environmental policy |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Impact of Well Field Exploration on the Life Cycle Analysis of Geothermal Power Production |
Sullivan, J. L.; Wang, M. Q. |
Exploration; Drilling; Environmental aspects; Air quality |
Life cycle analysis; geothermal; exploration; model; environmental performance; greenhouse emissions; plant cycle |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Numerical and Laboratory Studies of Fluid Transport between Two Matted Rough Surfaces and Realistic Assessment of Permeability of Fractured Medium |
Doonechaly, Nima Gholizadeh; Rahman, Sheik S. |
Fractures; Rock mechanics; Fluid dynamics; Permeability |
Fracture surface roughness; fluid flow; finite element method; fracture conductivity; hydraulic aperture |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Natural State Modeling of Geothermal Reservoir at Dieng, Central Java, Indonesia |
Hin, Takeshio; Itoi, Ryuichi; Tanaka, Toshiaki; Pambudi, N. Agung; Khasani |
Reservoir modeling; Lithology; Permeability |
Dieng; Indonesia; numerical model; forward analysis method; natural state; reservoir simulation |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Numerical Simulation of Instability of Geothermal Production Well |
Itoi, Ryuichi; Katayama, Yasunari; Tanaka, Toshiaki; Kumagai, Naoto; Iwasaki, Takaichi |
Reservoir modeling; Fluid dynamics; Two phase flow |
Wellbore flow; instability; reservoir flow; multi-feed; numerical model |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Numerical Modelling to Assess the Sustainability of Direct Use at Tauranga Low-Temperature Geothermal System, New Zealand |
Pearson, Sophie C. P.; Alcaraz, S. A. |
Reservoir management; Reservoir modeling; Low temperature re |
Geothermal reservoir modelling; TOUGH2; low-temperature; numerical model; sustainability; renewable resources; New Zealand |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Time Stepping Strategies for Incorporating Discrete Fracture Networks Into a High Performance Computing Framework for Geothermal Reservoir Simulation |
Smith, Katherine; Plummer, Mitch; Bradford, Jacob; Podgorney, Robert |
Reservoir modeling; Fluid dynamics; Thermodynamics; Fracture |
Reservoir simulations; discrete fracture networks; adaptive mesh refinement; adaptive time stepping; high performance computing; thermo-hydro-mechanical simulator; thermal stimulation |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Fracture Network Response to Injection Using an Efficient Displacement Discontinuity Method |
Verde, A.; Ghassemi, A. |
HDR/EGS; Rock mechanics; Stress fields; Fractures |
EGS; stress field variations; fractured reservoir; displacement discontinuity method; fast multipole method; efficient postprocessing; visualization |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Tracer Response of Injection Test in Hot Spring Fluid Layer at Minami-Izu Geothermal Field, Shizuoka, Japan |
Yanagisawa, Norio; Matsuyama, Kazuo; Takeda, Yasuto; Tomita, Kazuo; Yasukawa Kasumi; Sakaguchi, Keiichi |
Reservoir modeling; Tracer testing; Hydrogeology; Thermal sp |
Hot spring; tracer; injection; fault; return ratio; optical fiber; Minami-Izu |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| An Empirical Injection Limitation in Fault-Hosted Basin and Range Geothermal Systems |
Benoit, Dick |
Sustainability; Faults; Reservoir cooling |
Basin and Range; injection; case history; Roosevelt; Beowawe; Desert Peak; Dixie Valley; Bradys; Blue Mountain |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Continuation of Survey GPS Measurements and Installation of Continuous GPS Sites at The Geysers, California, for Geothermal Deformation Monitoring |
Floyd, Michael A.; Funning, Gareth J. |
Exploartion; Mapping; GPS surveys; Subsidence |
The Geysers California; Enhanced Geothermal Systems; subsidence; survey GPS; continuous GPS; deformation monitoring |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Inhibition of Antimony Sulfide (Stibnite) Scale in Geothermal Fields |
Gill, Jasbir S.; Muller, Logan; Rodman, David |
Brine chemistry; Scaling; Stibnite |
Antimony sulfide; Stibnite; chemical inhibitors |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Geothermal Well Stimulation Using Water Jet Cutting in Mexico |
Hernandez, Isaias; Del Valle, Juan; Espindola, Salvador |
Well stimulation; HDR/EGS; Hydraulic fracturing |
Drilling; permeability; EGS; water jet cutting; stimulation; Mexico |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Numerical Simulation of Devolution and Evolution of Steam-Water Two-Phase Zone in a Fractured Geothermal Reservoir at Ogiri, Japan |
Tateishi, Yohei; Itoi, Ryuichi; Tanaka, Toshiaki; Hiraga, Naoto; Takayama, Junichi |
Reservoir modeling; Fractures; Permeability |
Ogiri; Ginyu fault; numerical model; steam-water two-phase zone; MINC method |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Updated Surface Heat Flow Map of Alaska |
Batir, Joseph F.; Blackwell, David D.; Richards, Maria C. |
Exploration; Mapping; Heat flow |
Alaska; heat flow; conductivity; thermal gradient |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Pre-Exploration Geothermal Resource Assessment for the Raton Basin, Colorado ? The Rest of the Story |
Bohlen, Karoline |
Exploration; Geological surveys; Lithology; Stratigraphy; We |
Geothermal power; Raton Basin; Colorado; sedimentary; permeability; thin sections |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| GIS-Based Geothermal Resource Assessment of the Denver Basin: Colorado and Nebraska |
Crowell, Anna M.; Gosnold, Will |
Exploration; Mapping; GIS; Sedimentary basins |
Co-produced; geothermal; energy; ArcGIS; Denver Basin; Colorado; Nebraska; sedimentary basin |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |
| Case Study and First Look: Contemporary Magnetotelluric Studies within Nereidas Valley, Nevado Del Ruiz Volcano, Colombia |
Jimenez, R. D. Garcia; Yermanos, S. L. Gutierrez; Perez, E. R. Pareja; Ospina, L. T. Pusquin; Dewhurst, Warren T.; Lopez, Julian P. |
Exploration; Geophysical surveys; Resisitivity surveys; Magn |
Magnetotelluric survey; Nevado Del Ruiz; Nereidas Valley; Colombia; geothermal |
Geothermal Resources Council Transactions |
2013 |
English |