Heat deliverability of homogeneous geothermal reservoirs
For the last two decades, the petroleum industry has been successfully using simple inflow performance relationships (IPR's) to predict oil deliverability. In contrast, the geothermal industry lacked a simple and reliable method to estimate geothermal wells' heat deliverability. To address this gap in the standard geothermal-reservoir-assessment arsenal, we developed generalized dimensionless geothermal inflow performance relationships (GIPR's). These ''reference curves'' may be regarded as an approximate general solution of the equations describing the practically important case of radial 2-phase inflow. Based on this approximate solution, we outline a straightforward approach to estimate the reservoir contribution to geothermal wells heat and mass deliverability for 2-phase reservoirs. This approach is far less costly and in most cases as reliable as numerically modeling the reservoir, which is the alternative for 2-phase inflow.
- Research Organization:
- Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Cuernavaca, MX
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 888106
- Report Number(s):
- SGP-TR-134-23
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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