Investigation of wellbore cooling by circulation and fluid penetration into the formation using a wellbore thermal simulator computer code [electronic resource].
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- Albuquerque, N.M. : Sandia National Laboratories, 1985.
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- Pages: 7 : digital, PDF file
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- Sandia National Laboratories and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- The high temperatures of geothermal wells present severe problems for drilling, logging, and developing these reservoirs. Cooling the wellbore is perhaps the most common method to solve these problems. However, it is usually not clear what may be the most effective wellbore cooling mechanism for a given well. In this paper, wellbore cooling by the use of circulation or by fluid injection into the surrounding rock is investigated using a wellbore thermal simulator computer code. Short circulation times offer no prolonged cooling of fluid in the wellbore, but long circulation times (greater than ten or twenty days) greatly reduce the warming rate after shut-in. The dependence of the warming rate on the penetration distance of cooler temperatures into the rock formation (as by fluid injection) is investigated. Penetration distances of greater than 0.6 m appear to offer a substantial reduction in the warming rate. Several plots are shown which demonstrate these effects. 16 refs., 6 figs.
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- E 1.99:sand-85-0651c
E 1.99: conf-850801-3
conf-850801-3
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- Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1985.
"sand-85-0651c"
" conf-850801-3"
"DE85008465"
International symposium on geothermal energy, Kailua Kona, HI, USA, 26 Aug 1985.
Duda, L.E. - Funding Information
- AC04-76DP00789
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