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    3. Prospecting and Producing of Geothermal Energy | RILS

    Prospecting and Producing of Geothermal Energy | RILS

    • Foundation
    • 20 Hours
    • Remote Instructor Led SeriesRemote Instructor Led Series

    This is a Remote Instructor Led Series (RILS) training. The remote classroom delivery is a modality that takes advantage of the instructor led training content, while allowing the same content to be delivered remotely.

    All training sessions will be delivered online with no face-to-face classroom attendance. This class will be delivered in 20h (4 hours daily teaching sessions over 5 days). 

    This course focuses on geothermal methods for analyzing conventional and unconventional geothermal systems, and developing geothermal reservoirs. The course is designed for exploration, production, and development geoscientists.

    Lectures show how geothermal analysis can reduce the risk associated with geothermal prospects, how to predict quality from inexpensive wellbore measurements, and how to identify reservoir heat transfer in conductively and advectively dominated reservoirs.  It provides interpretive guidelines for reservoir thermal signatures of various transient and steady-state heat transfer processes and teaches how to distinguish the overprint of steady-state conductive geotherms by various steady-state and transient processes. Participants learn how to derive thermophysical rock properties from geophysical conventional logs, and how field and lab techniques can be combined to estimate geothermal prospects.

    Case studies illustrate and assess different types of geothermal resources, the design and layout of geothermal heat production schemes for direct use and for conversion into electric energy.  The lectures and discussions are designed to improve basic understanding of the processes controlling geothermal systems and terrestrial heat transport. This will enable interpreting various thermal signatures and evaluating geothermal potentials. 

    In contrast to the classroom version of this course, this remote course does not comprise exercise sessions.
    Agenda

    Concepts and physical Basics

    ·         Thermal structure of the Earth

    ·         Thermodynamic state functions (Gibbs equations, Maxwell relations)

    ·         Energy budget of the Earth

    ·         Thermal regime of the Earth, plate tectonics and geothermal systems

     

    Crustal heat transport and relevant rock properties

    ·         Heat transport by diffusion (steady state: conduction) and fluid-driven advection

    ·         Thermal conductivity and diffusivity

    ·         Specific heat capacity and thermal capacity

    ·         Radiogenic heat generation rate

     

    Borehole and laboratory methods for measuring geothermal data

    ·         Temperature and thermal conductivity

    ·         Specific heat capacity

    ·         Radiogenic heat generation rate

    ·         Porosity and density

     

    Processing of geothermal data

    Temperature corrections regarding

    ·         Technical perturbations

     Equilibration after borehole shut-in

                     Borehole free convection

                     Borehole in- and outflow

    ·         Natural steady-state and transient effects

                    Topography

                    Climate change

                    Erosion and uplift, sedimentation and subsidence

    Calculation of temperature gradient

    ·         Calculation of heat flow

     

    Geothermal energy (shallow and deep borehole heat exchangers)?

    ·         Definition of geothermal energy

    ·         Types of geothermal resources

    ·         Direct use of geothermal heat

                     Space heating and cooling

                     Commercial and industrial applications

     Technological and economical aspects of direct use

                      - Earth coupled heat extraction systems

                     - Hydrothermal heating systems

     

    Geothermal energy (conversion into electric energy)

    ·         Geothermal reservoir development

    ·         Integrating of structural, geological, and geophysical data into a numerical model for simulating flow and heat transport in geothermal reservoirs

    ·         Step-out exploration and field development

    ·         Geothermal power generation: Technological and economical aspects of geothermal power generation

      - Natural steam power plants

      - Binary power plants

      - Power plants for Hot Dry Rock or Enhanced Geothermal Systems

      - Technical, economic and ecological aspects


    Anyone involved in geothermal projects

    Basic knowledge of geology and geophysics

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