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Title: Geothermal Field Development in the European Community Objectives, Achievements and Problem Areas

Abstract

Achievements and problem areas are reviewed with respect to various engineering implications of geothermal field development in the European Community (EC). Current and furture development goals address three resource settings. (a) low enthalpy sources (30-150{degrees}C), an outlook common to all Member states as a result of hot water aquifers flowing in large sedimentary units with normal heat flow, widespread thoughout the EC; (b) high enthalpy sources (<150{degrees}C) in areas of high heat flow which, as a consequence of the geodynamics of the Eurasian plate, are limited to Central and South-West Italy and to Eastern Greece; (c) hot dry rocks (HDR), whose potential for Europe, and also the difficulties in implementing the heat mining concept, are enormous. A large scale experiment conducted at medium depth in Cornwall (UK) proves encouraging though. It has provided the right sort of scientific inputs to the understanding of the mechanics of anisotropic brittle basement rocks.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Commission of the European Communities Rue de la Loi 200, 1049 Brussels, Belgium
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
889460
Report Number(s):
SGP-TR-74-2
DOE Contract Number:  
AT03-80SF11459
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Proceedings, Ninth Workshop Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford Calif., December 13-15, 1983
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
Geothermal Legacy

Citation Formats

Ungemach, Pierre. Geothermal Field Development in the European Community Objectives, Achievements and Problem Areas. United States: N. p., 1983. Web.
Ungemach, Pierre. Geothermal Field Development in the European Community Objectives, Achievements and Problem Areas. United States.
Ungemach, Pierre. 1983. "Geothermal Field Development in the European Community Objectives, Achievements and Problem Areas". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/889460.
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abstractNote = {Achievements and problem areas are reviewed with respect to various engineering implications of geothermal field development in the European Community (EC). Current and furture development goals address three resource settings. (a) low enthalpy sources (30-150{degrees}C), an outlook common to all Member states as a result of hot water aquifers flowing in large sedimentary units with normal heat flow, widespread thoughout the EC; (b) high enthalpy sources (<150{degrees}C) in areas of high heat flow which, as a consequence of the geodynamics of the Eurasian plate, are limited to Central and South-West Italy and to Eastern Greece; (c) hot dry rocks (HDR), whose potential for Europe, and also the difficulties in implementing the heat mining concept, are enormous. A large scale experiment conducted at medium depth in Cornwall (UK) proves encouraging though. It has provided the right sort of scientific inputs to the understanding of the mechanics of anisotropic brittle basement rocks.},
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