Numerical simulation of injectivity effects of mineral scaling and clay swelling in a fractured geothermal reservoir

Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council

Volumn 28, Issue , 2004, Pages 269-278

  Xu, Tianfu ^a   Pruess, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay swelling; ECS; HDR; HFR; Injectate mitigation; Injectivity enhancing; Mineral scaling; Reactive transport modeling

Indexed keywords

CLAY SWELLING; HOT DRY ROCK (HDR); HOT FRACTURED ROCK (HFR); INJECTATE MITIGATION; INJECTIVITY ENHANCING; MINERAL SCALING; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING;

CLAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; HYDROLOGY; IONIC STRENGTH; ISOTHERMS; MINERAL RESOURCES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STRESSES;

ROCKS;

EID: 17644405416     PISSN: 01935933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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