HYDROLOGIC PROPERTIES OF THE DIXIE VALLEY, NEVADA, GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR FROM WELL-TEST ANALYSES R.H. Morinl, S.H. Hickman2, C.A. Barton3, A.M. Shapird, W.R. Benoits, J.H. Sass6 1U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO 80225, USA [email protected] 2U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA [email protected] 3Stanford University, Dept. of Geophysics, Stanford, CA 94305, USA barton@ pan...

This paper presents the outlines of a new Hot Wet Rock (HWR) geothermal project. The goal of the project is to develop a design methodology for combined artificial and natural crack geothermal reservoir systems with the objective of enhancing the thermal output of existing geothermal power plants. The proposed concept of HWR and the research tasks of the project are described.

Geothermal energy is a clean, green renewable resource, which can be utilized for power generation, heating, cooling, and could effectively replace oil, gas, and coal. In recent years, oil companies have put more efforts into exploiting and utilizing geothermal energy with advanced technologies for heat-tracing oil gathering and transportation, central heating, etc., which has not only reduced ...

A shallow geothermal reservoir in the Pueblo of Jemez in New Mexico may indicate a commercialscale geothermal energy potential in the area. To explore the geothermal resource at Jemez Pueblo, seismic surveys are conducted along three lines for the purpose of imaging complex subsurface structures near the Indian Springs fault zone. A 3-D magneto-telluric (MT) survey is also carried out in the sa...

vartun geothermal region (vgr) is located in west central part of iran, 300 km in the southeast of tehran. vgr area is 277 km2and there are some geothermal surface manifestations such as warm springs and travertine deposits. there are three warm springs which their temperature varies from 35.3 to 43.1 °c. their ph is a little bit acidic and is about 6.1-6.2. based on geothermometery studies var...

—An implementation and performance analysis of heat transfer modeling using most popular component environments is a scope of this article. The computational problem is described, and the proposed solution of decomposition for parallelization is shown. The implementation is prepared for MS .NET, Sun Java and Mono. Tests are done for various operating systems and hardware platform combinations. ...

The Nesjavellir geothermal system in southern Iceland is very complex from both a thermal and hydrologic point of view. There are large pressure and temperature gradients in the wellfield and zones with drastically different pressure potentials. Thus, natural fluid flow is substantial in the system and flow patterns are complex. We have developed a twedimensional natural state model for the Nes...