Sustainable heat farming: Modeling extraction and recovery in discretely fractured geothermal reservoirs

Geothermics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2013, Pages 42-54

  Fox, Don B ^a,b   Sutter, Daniel ^c   Beckers, Koenraad F ^a,b   Lukawski, Maciej Z ^a,b   Koch, Donald L ^a,b   Anderson, Brian J ^d   Tester, Jefferson W ^a,b  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b ETH Zurich ^*  (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conduction dominated; Discretely fractured rock systems; Enhanced geothermal systems; Heat transfer; Renewability; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BULK ROCKS; BULK TEMPERATURES; ENGINEERED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; FIELD TESTING; FRACTURE SURFACES; FRACTURED ROCK; GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; HEAT EXTRACTION; HEAT TRANSFER EFFECTS; MASS FLOW; MULTIDIMENSIONAL EFFECTS; OUTLET TEMPERATURE; PARALLEL FRACTURES; RECOVERY TIME; RENEWABILITY; SINGLE FRACTURE; THERMAL CONDUCTION; THERMAL INTERACTION; TIME-SCALES; UTILIZATION SYSTEMS;

FLOW RATE; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEOTHERMAL WELLS; HEAT TRANSFER; RECOVERY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FRACTURE;

GEOTHERMAL POWER; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; GREEN FUNCTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MODELING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUSTAINABILITY; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84870714529     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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