Abstract
GEOPHIRES v2.0 is a geothermal techno-economic simulation tool upgraded from GEOPHIRES v1.2. The name stands for "GEOthermal energy for Production of Heat and electricity (“IR”) Economically Simulated". GEOPHIRES combines reservoir, wellbore, and surface plant technical models with cost correlations and levelized cost models to estimate the capital and operation and maintenance costs, instantaneous and lifetime energy production, and overall levelized cost of energy of a geothermal plant. In addition to electricity generation, direct-use heat applications and combined heat and power or cogeneration can be modeled. Various upgrades have been implemented to develop GEOPHIRES v2.0, including: updating the built-in cost correlations, coupling to the external reservoir simulator TOUGH2, enhancing the built-in wellbore simulator, converting the programming language to Python, and making the code open-source. Users are encouraged to build upon the tool, e.g. by implementing their own correlations or coupling to other simulators.
- Developers:
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Beckers, Koenraad [1] ; McCabe, Kevin [1]
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Release Date:
- 2020-02-17
- Project Type:
- Open Source, Publicly Available Repository
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- Programming Languages:
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Python
- Version:
- 2.0
- Licenses:
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GNU General Public License v3.0
- Sponsoring Org.:
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USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)Primary Award/Contract Number:AC36-08GO28308
- Code ID:
- 34269
- Site Accession Number:
- SWR-19-02
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Country of Origin:
- United States
Citation Formats
Beckers, Koenraad, and McCabe, Kevin.
GEOPHIRES v2.0.
Computer Software.
https://github.com/NREL/GEOPHIRES-v2.
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
17 Feb. 2020.
Web.
doi:10.11578/dc.20200217.1.
Beckers, Koenraad, & McCabe, Kevin.
(2020, February 17).
GEOPHIRES v2.0.
[Computer software].
https://github.com/NREL/GEOPHIRES-v2.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20200217.1.
Beckers, Koenraad, and McCabe, Kevin.
"GEOPHIRES v2.0." Computer software.
February 17, 2020.
https://github.com/NREL/GEOPHIRES-v2.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20200217.1.
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title = {GEOPHIRES v2.0},
author = {Beckers, Koenraad and McCabe, Kevin},
abstractNote = {GEOPHIRES v2.0 is a geothermal techno-economic simulation tool upgraded from GEOPHIRES v1.2. The name stands for "GEOthermal energy for Production of Heat and electricity (“IR”) Economically Simulated". GEOPHIRES combines reservoir, wellbore, and surface plant technical models with cost correlations and levelized cost models to estimate the capital and operation and maintenance costs, instantaneous and lifetime energy production, and overall levelized cost of energy of a geothermal plant. In addition to electricity generation, direct-use heat applications and combined heat and power or cogeneration can be modeled. Various upgrades have been implemented to develop GEOPHIRES v2.0, including: updating the built-in cost correlations, coupling to the external reservoir simulator TOUGH2, enhancing the built-in wellbore simulator, converting the programming language to Python, and making the code open-source. Users are encouraged to build upon the tool, e.g. by implementing their own correlations or coupling to other simulators. },
doi = {10.11578/dc.20200217.1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20200217.1},
howpublished = {[Computer Software] \url{https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20200217.1}},
year = {2020},
month = {feb}
}