Abstract
A management model is developed that determines the optimum economic recoverability of a hot-water geothermal reservoir undergoing exploitation for electric power generation. Integrates a physical model of the reservoir that predicts the areas of pressure decline due to withdrawals, and pressure rise due to reinjection of spent fluid, with a model of a two-stage steam turbine power plant that determines the quantity of electricity generated for a rate of hot-water extraction. Capital-, variable- and annual fixed costs are obtained for development, extraction and reinjection, the transmission system, and the power plant. Revenues are determined for electrical power production. Application of the model to a simplified, yet realistic example demonstrates that the methodology developed can be used for analyzing the management of an integrated geothermal reservoir power plant system.-from Authors
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Water Resources Research |
| Pages | 499-512 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Edition | 3 |
| State | Published - 1982 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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- Environmental Chemistry
- Water Science and Technology
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Management model for power production from a geothermal field - 1 : hot water reservoir and power plant model. / Maddock, Thomas; Mercer, J. W.; Faust, C. R.
Water Resources Research. Vol. 18 3. ed. 1982. p. 499-512.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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T1 - Management model for power production from a geothermal field - 1
T2 - hot water reservoir and power plant model.
AU - Maddock, Thomas
AU - Mercer, J. W.
AU - Faust, C. R.
PY - 1982
Y1 - 1982
N2 - A management model is developed that determines the optimum economic recoverability of a hot-water geothermal reservoir undergoing exploitation for electric power generation. Integrates a physical model of the reservoir that predicts the areas of pressure decline due to withdrawals, and pressure rise due to reinjection of spent fluid, with a model of a two-stage steam turbine power plant that determines the quantity of electricity generated for a rate of hot-water extraction. Capital-, variable- and annual fixed costs are obtained for development, extraction and reinjection, the transmission system, and the power plant. Revenues are determined for electrical power production. Application of the model to a simplified, yet realistic example demonstrates that the methodology developed can be used for analyzing the management of an integrated geothermal reservoir power plant system.-from Authors
AB - A management model is developed that determines the optimum economic recoverability of a hot-water geothermal reservoir undergoing exploitation for electric power generation. Integrates a physical model of the reservoir that predicts the areas of pressure decline due to withdrawals, and pressure rise due to reinjection of spent fluid, with a model of a two-stage steam turbine power plant that determines the quantity of electricity generated for a rate of hot-water extraction. Capital-, variable- and annual fixed costs are obtained for development, extraction and reinjection, the transmission system, and the power plant. Revenues are determined for electrical power production. Application of the model to a simplified, yet realistic example demonstrates that the methodology developed can be used for analyzing the management of an integrated geothermal reservoir power plant system.-from Authors
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