Tracer design for tracking thermal fronts in geothermal reservoirs

Geothermics

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-44

  Nottebohm, Martin ^a   Licha, Tobias ^a   Sauter, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrolysis; Phenol acetates; Smart tracer; Thermal breakdown; Tracer

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC RINGS; ESTER HYDROLYSIS; GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; INDUCTIVE EFFECTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; REACTING GROUPS; REACTION SPEED; ROCK MATRIX; SMART TRACER; TEST DURATION; THERMAL BREAKDOWN; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; THERMAL FRONTS; THERMO SENSITIVE; TRACER;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; PHENOLS; REACTION RATES;

ALKALINITY;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; HYDROLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; TRACER;

EID: 84861943926     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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