The Iceland deep drilling project: Its global significance
The Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is a long-term program to improve the economics of geothermal energy by producing supercritical hydrous fluids from drillable depths. Supercritical fluids have higher enthalpy than steam produced from two-phase systems. Large changes in physical properties ne...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.497.707 2023-05-15T16:46:33+02:00 The Iceland deep drilling project: Its global significance Wilfred A. Elders Gudmundur O. Fridleifsson Seiji Saito The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.497.707 http://www.jardhitafelag.is/media/pdf/session06.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.497.707 http://www.jardhitafelag.is/media/pdf/session06.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.jardhitafelag.is/media/pdf/session06.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T08:52:04Z The Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is a long-term program to improve the economics of geothermal energy by producing supercritical hydrous fluids from drillable depths. Supercritical fluids have higher enthalpy than steam produced from two-phase systems. Large changes in physical properties near the critical point can lead to extremely high flow rates. Studying supercritical fluids will require drilling wells and sampling fluids and rocks to depths of 3.5 to 5 km and at temperatures of 450-600°C. Although drilling such deep wells is expensive, the power outputs from supercritical wells should be considerably enhanced. Iceland is a very favorable environment for this study. It is the largest landmass straddling a mid-ocean ridge, where active rifting provides the permeability and volcanism provides the heat sources for a major geothermal industry. Very high heat flows within these rifts indicate that supercritical temperatures exist at drillable depths. Seismic activity continues to below 5 km in these high temperature geothermal fields, indicating that even at supercritical temperatures, the rocks are brittle and therefore permeable. Similarly because of the high rain and Text Iceland Unknown |
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The Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is a long-term program to improve the economics of geothermal energy by producing supercritical hydrous fluids from drillable depths. Supercritical fluids have higher enthalpy than steam produced from two-phase systems. Large changes in physical properties near the critical point can lead to extremely high flow rates. Studying supercritical fluids will require drilling wells and sampling fluids and rocks to depths of 3.5 to 5 km and at temperatures of 450-600°C. Although drilling such deep wells is expensive, the power outputs from supercritical wells should be considerably enhanced. Iceland is a very favorable environment for this study. It is the largest landmass straddling a mid-ocean ridge, where active rifting provides the permeability and volcanism provides the heat sources for a major geothermal industry. Very high heat flows within these rifts indicate that supercritical temperatures exist at drillable depths. Seismic activity continues to below 5 km in these high temperature geothermal fields, indicating that even at supercritical temperatures, the rocks are brittle and therefore permeable. Similarly because of the high rain and |
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