Crack geometries for experiments in hot‐dry‐rock geothermal heat production

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Crampin
Keyword(s):  
Heat Production ◽  
Geothermal Heat ◽  
Hot Dry Rock

scholarly journals Applying Harmonised Geothermal Life Cycle Assessment Guidelines to the Rittershoffen Geothermal Heat Plant

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3820
Author(s):  
Mélanie Douziech ◽  
Lorenzo Tosti ◽  
Nicola Ferrara ◽  
Maria Laura Parisi ◽  
Paula Pérez-López ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Heat Production ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Geothermal Systems ◽  
Geothermal Heat ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

Heat production from a geothermal energy source is gaining increasing attention due to its potential contribution to the decarbonization of the European energy sector. Obtaining representative results of the environmental performances of geothermal systems and comparing them with other renewables is of utmost importance in order to ensure an effective energy transition as targeted by Europe. This work presents the outputs of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) performed on the Rittershoffen geothermal heat plant applying guidelines that were developed within the H2020 GEOENVI project. The production of 1 kWhth from the Rittershoffen heat plant was compared to the heat produced from natural gas in Europe. Geothermal heat production performed better than the average heat production in climate change and resource use, fossil categories. The LCA identified the electricity consumption during the operation and maintenance phase as a hot spot for several impact categories. A prospective scenario analysis was therefore performed to assess the evolution of the environmental performances of the Rittershoffen heat plant associated with the future French electricity mixes. The increase of renewable energy shares in the future French electricity mix caused the impact on specific categories (e.g., land use and mineral and metals resource depletion) to grow over the years. However, an overall reduction of the environmental impacts of the Rittershoffen heat plant was observed.

Low geothermal heat flow of the Urals fold belt — implication of low heat production, fluid circulation or palaeoclimate?

1997 ◽  
Vol 276 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 63-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.T. Kukkonen ◽  
I.V. Golovanova ◽  
Yu.V. Khachay ◽  
V.S. Druzhinin ◽  
A.M. Kosarev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flow ◽  
Heat Production ◽  
Fluid Circulation ◽  
Fold Belt ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Geothermal Heat

Specifying boundary conditions for economical closed loop deep geothermal heat production

Energy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 196 ◽  
pp. 117068
Author(s):  
László Kalmár ◽  
Tamás Medgyes ◽  
János Szanyi
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Heat Production ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Geothermal Heat

Deep Drill 1972. Heat Flow and Heat Production in Bermuda

1974 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 809-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Hyndman ◽  
G. K. Muecke ◽  
F. Aumento
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Flow ◽  
Heat Production ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Gamma Ray Spectrometry ◽  
Geothermal Heat ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Average Value ◽  
The Mean

The geothermal heat flux determined in a borehole on Bermuda is 1.36 μcal/cm2 s (57 mW/m2). The value is corrected for the topographic effect of the Bermuda sea-mount and the difference between sea floor and land surface temperatures. Radioactive heat production in the borehole core determined by gamma-ray spectrometry has an average value of 1.45 × 10−13 cal/cm3 s (6.11 × 10−7 W/m3). Of the altered tholeiite flows and intrusive lamprophyric sheets which make up the section to 800 m, the sheets have 10 times the heat production of the flows. If the heat production attributable to the Bermuda seamount is subtracted from the measured heat flux a value of 1.26 μcal/cm2 s (53 mW/m2) is obtained which is in good agreement with the mean of surrounding sea floor measurements and with the mean for Cretaceous ocean floor. The low heat flow and the small amount of subsidence substantiates the radioactive dating data which indicates the present seamount structure was produced about 33 m.y. ago by intrusion and uplift of a much older structure.

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