Planning and design of additional East Mesa Geothermal Test Facilities. Phase 1B. Final report

Technical Report · Fri Oct 15 04:00:00 EDT 1976

OSTI ID:6812144

Pearson, R O

The planning and design of additions to the ERDA East Mesa Geothermal Component Test Facility is emphasized. This project is supplemental to the US Bureau of Reclamation Phase 1A project which expanded their water desalination operations to accommodate limited-scale geothermal component testing. When construction is completed to the designs reported herein, the East Mesa Geothermal Component Test Facility will provide moderate temperature/low salinity fluids to facilitate comprehansive testing of conversion systems and components under realistic field conditions. The project objectives included: (1) development of designs of new wells and modifications to existing wells to improve definitive reservoir evaluations and (2) design of additional test facilities integrated with the limited-scale Phase 1A facilities to accomodate diverse commercial utilization technology experiments. A reservoir utilization evaluation was conducted to establish locations and design drilling programs for three new wells and modifications to existing wells to improve reservoir definition and provide a comprehensive inventory of geothermal well fluids for testing.

• Research Organization: TRW Defense and Space Systems Group, Redondo Beach, CA (USA). Systems Engineering and Integration Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76ET28444
• OSTI ID: 6812144
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/28444-T1(Vol.1)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
150903* -- Geothermal Engineering-- Corrosion
Scaling & Materials Development
ABANDONED WELLS
CALIBRATION
COST
DESIGN
EAST MESA GEOTHERMAL FIELD
FABRICATION
FLUID INJECTION
GEOLOGY
GEOTHERMAL FIELDS
GEOTHERMAL WELLS
HEAT FLOW
MATERIALS TESTING
MODIFICATIONS
PETROLOGY
PIPELINES
PROCUREMENT
SIMULATION
TEST FACILITIES
TESTING
WELLS