Geothermal Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications

✍ Scribed by Arnold Watson (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 346
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explains the engineering required to bring geothermal resources into use. The book covers specifically engineering aspects that are unique to geothermal engineering, such as measurements in wells and their interpretation, transport of near-boiling water through long pipelines, turbines driven by fluids other than steam, and project economics. The explanations are reinforced by drawing comparisons with other energy industries.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Sources of Geothermal Heat....Pages 11-23
Thermodynamics Background and the Properties of Water....Pages 25-46
The Equations Governing Heat and Single-Phase Fluid Flow and Their Simplification for Particular Applications....Pages 47-75
Geothermal Drilling and Well Design....Pages 77-97
Well Measurements from Completion Tests to the First Discharge....Pages 99-122
Phase-Change Phenomena and Two-Phase Flow....Pages 123-140
The Discharging Well....Pages 141-167
The Transient Response of Formations to Flow in a Well: Transient Pressure Well Testing....Pages 169-198
Economic Issues Relating to Geothermal Energy Use....Pages 199-216
The Power Station....Pages 217-249
The Steamfield....Pages 251-272
The Resource Development Plan....Pages 273-295
Struggles Between Commercial Use and Conservation: Examples from New Zealand....Pages 297-319
Back Matter....Pages 321-336

✦ Subjects

Renewable and Green Energy; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Energy Systems; Energy Harvesting; Environmental Science and Engineering