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A Note on Power Plant Selection for Engineered Geothermal Systems

Smith, I. K. ORCID: 0000-0003-1524-9880 (2023). A Note on Power Plant Selection for Engineered Geothermal Systems. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 237(22), pp. 5494-5499. doi: 10.1177/09544062231166804

Abstract

An initial study has been carried out to determine the most suitable system for recovering power from Engineered Geothermal Systems. When using a binary power plant, account has been taken of the relatively rapid temperature decline of such resources. A simplified idealised analysis shows that the total recoverable power is more or less independent of the type of power plant used but a system that maximises the heat recovery from the brine, in its passage through the primary heat exchanger will yield a much higher initial power output and a much quicker return on the capital invested, than one which is designed to maximise the power plant cycle efficiency.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: © IMechE 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Publisher Keywords: Geothermal Energy, Engineered Systems, Thermodynamics, Power Plant
Subjects: T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Engineering
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