The Coupling of the Numerical Heat Transfer Model of the Pauzhetka Hydrothermal System (Kamchatka, USSR) with Hydroisotopic Data

• Main Authors: Kiryukhin, A.V., Sugrobov, V.M.
• Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Volcanology, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 6830006, USSR 1986
• Subjects: Heat Transfer; 02 Petroleum; Testing; Ground Water; Feeding; Rivers; Magma; Heat Sources; Reservoir Engineering; 15 Geothermal Energy; Hydrothermal Systems; Water Geothermal Legacy; Kamchatka; Geothermal Legacy; Pauzhetka
• Online Access: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc875187/

The application of the two-dimensional numerical heat-transfer model to the Pauzhetka hydrothermal system allowed us to establish that: (1) a shallow magma body with the anomalous temperature of 700-1000 C and with a volume of 20-30 km{sup 3} may be a heat source for the formation of the Pauzhetka hydrothermal system. (2) The water feeding source of the Pauzhetka hydrothermal system may be meteoric waters which are infiltrated at an average rate of 5-10 kg/s {center_dot} km{sup 2}. The coupling of the numerical heat-transfer model with hydroisotopic data (D,T,{sup 18}O) obtained from the results of testing of exploitation wells, rivers and springs is the basis to understand more clearly the position of recharge areas and the structure of water flows in the hydrothermal system.