CFD Modeling of a High Enthalpy Geothermal Context
The promising development of highly energetic geothermal resources could considerably enhance geothermal power production worldwide. The first attempt at tapping supercritical/heated fluids was made by the Iceland Deep Drilling project (IDDP), but unfortunately a magma layer at a depth of 2,100m was...
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ftuglasgow:oai:eprints.gla.ac.uk:165741 2023-05-15T16:50:42+02:00 CFD Modeling of a High Enthalpy Geothermal Context Renaud, Theo Stebel, Michal Verdin, Patrick Falcone, Gioia 2018-02-14 text http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/165741/ http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/165741/1/165741.pdf en eng http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/165741/1/165741.pdf Renaud, T., Stebel, M., Verdin, P. and Falcone, G. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/46939.html> (2018) CFD Modeling of a High Enthalpy Geothermal Context. In: Proceedings, 43rd Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, 12-14 Feb 2018 Conference Proceedings PeerReviewed 2018 ftuglasgow 2020-01-10T01:41:55Z The promising development of highly energetic geothermal resources could considerably enhance geothermal power production worldwide. The first attempt at tapping supercritical/heated fluids was made by the Iceland Deep Drilling project (IDDP), but unfortunately a magma layer at a depth of 2,100m was encountered, and the drilling was abandoned. Yet, this drilling operation failure generated new opportunities for assessing the potential power generation close to shallow magmatic intrusions. Detailed numerical methods are required to assess the heat transfer and fluid thermodynamics at wellbore and reservoir scale at near supercritical conditions to provide production scenarios and forecasts as accurate as possible. A primary steady-state study of reservoir and wellbore heat extraction from a geothermal well near a magmatic chamber has been performed wit Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques. Using simplified geological assumptions based on the IDDP-1 well description, a 2 axisymmetric single phase flow model was developed and its results were compared to those obtained with a full 3D CFD model. The simulated output power simulations reached 25 MW at 350°C and a wellhead pressure of 140 bars. Methodology and results from this study show that CFD techniques can be successfully used to assess geothermal energy outputs for unconventional geothermal wells and can provide details of a vapor superheated flow structure at wellbore-reservoir scale. Conference Object Iceland University of Glasgow: Enlighten - Publications |
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The promising development of highly energetic geothermal resources could considerably enhance geothermal power production worldwide. The first attempt at tapping supercritical/heated fluids was made by the Iceland Deep Drilling project (IDDP), but unfortunately a magma layer at a depth of 2,100m was encountered, and the drilling was abandoned. Yet, this drilling operation failure generated new opportunities for assessing the potential power generation close to shallow magmatic intrusions. Detailed numerical methods are required to assess the heat transfer and fluid thermodynamics at wellbore and reservoir scale at near supercritical conditions to provide production scenarios and forecasts as accurate as possible. A primary steady-state study of reservoir and wellbore heat extraction from a geothermal well near a magmatic chamber has been performed wit Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques. Using simplified geological assumptions based on the IDDP-1 well description, a 2 axisymmetric single phase flow model was developed and its results were compared to those obtained with a full 3D CFD model. The simulated output power simulations reached 25 MW at 350°C and a wellhead pressure of 140 bars. Methodology and results from this study show that CFD techniques can be successfully used to assess geothermal energy outputs for unconventional geothermal wells and can provide details of a vapor superheated flow structure at wellbore-reservoir scale. |
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/165741/1/165741.pdf Renaud, T., Stebel, M., Verdin, P. and Falcone, G. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/46939.html> (2018) CFD Modeling of a High Enthalpy Geothermal Context. In: Proceedings, 43rd Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford CA, 12-14 Feb 2018 |
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