One Year Experience with Portable Back-Pressure Turbines in Los Azufres

Conference · Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:889707

Hiriart, Gerardo L

This paper contains the experience gained after one year operating five 5 MW portable, back-pressure, geothermal power plants at Los Azufres. A brief description of the field and te equipment is given. Cost figures of the whole installation and a list of what they believe are the advantages and disadvantages is also presented. The main conclusion is that the use of this type of turbogenerators is quite attractive in new undeveloped fields and also in countries with financial problems where initial capital cost investments must be kept as low as possible at the expenses of long term steam consumption.

• Research Organization: Comision Federal de Electricidad, Morelia, Mexico
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: AT03-80SF11459
• OSTI ID: 889707
• Report Number(s): SGP-TR-74-35; TRN: US200620%%142
• Resource Relation: Conference: Proceedings, Ninth Workshop Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford Calif., December 13-15, 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
CAPITALIZED COST
GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS
RESERVOIR ENGINEERING
STEAM
TURBINES
TURBOGENERATORS
Geothermal Legacy