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Design Considerations for Artificial Lifting of Enhanced Geothermal System Fluids [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, 2005.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Idaho National Laboratory, United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary:
This work evaluates the effect of production well pumping requirements on power generation. The amount of work that can be extracted from a geothermal fluid and the rate at which this work is converted to power increase as the reservoir temperature increases. Artificial lifting is an important issue in this process. The results presented are based on a configuration comprising one production well and one injection well, representing an enhanced geothermal system. The effects of the hydraulic conductivity of the geothermal reservoir, the flow rate, and the size of the production casing are considered in the study. Besides submersible pumps, the possibility of using lineshaft pumps is also discussed.
Report Numbers:
E 1.99:inl/ext-05-00533
inl/ext-05-00533
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Published through SciTech Connect.
07/01/2005.
"inl/ext-05-00533"
K. K. Bloomfield; G. L. Mines; G. M. Shook; Xina Xie.
Funding Information:
DE-AC07-99ID-13727
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