Geothermal Definition and 26 Threads

TL;DR Summary: I have a problem designing an axial turbine, there is a lot I don't understand hey, how are you all doing, I am a chemical engineering student working on designing a geothermal power plant, weirdly I have been told that I must design an n-pentane turbine for our Plant, it's so...

Last night, (3/23) I read this article, alas, today it has disappeared behind the inevitable paywall. (this means it's a good piece) If you have access to Nature articles, this is a fascinating read. A huge advance in Geophysics that will see a lot of attention in future geothermal studies...

I am trying to build a miniature (it should fit on a desk) binary geothermal power plant for educational purposes. I obviously do not expect to drill into the ground with this power plant, but I hope to be able to demonstrate new design principles with it. I have many questions as to how to do...

Science magazine news article here.

There are three geothermal systems that are commonly used: sry steam, flash steam, and binary cycle https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=geothermal_power_plants . What are the efficiencies of the plants from best to least effecient on average?

Hello, I am attempting to solve the 1 d heat equation using separation of variables. 1d heat equation: ##\frac{\partial T}{\partial t} = \alpha \frac{\partial^2 T}{\partial x^2}## I used the standard separation of variables to get a solution. Without including boundary conditions right now...

I've become nauseated with the recent obsession with colonizing Mars, mining the moon or asteroids, and spending resources on intermittent power production from wind, solar, and batteries. I've looked at numerous sources of energy production and have come to the conclusion that instead of...

Hi, i looking for install in my home geothermal system for heat/cool my house with lower electricity. Here is the spec of my heat pump. If i understand my heat pump extract energy from the earth. so with this pump, the total energy is 7 kWh input and output 21 kWh heating or 17 kWh for cooling...

Hello everyone, Just posting this because I was wondering if it's possible to build 5-10km deep closed loop geothermal power plants from microgrid sizes of 1-5MWe to commercial power plant sizes of 0.5-1GWe that can have construction costs in the $3,000,000 per MWe range (similar to solar and...

Homework Statement See attachment Homework Equations I guess I need to do something with this equation: P= cmρJΔT ρ is then the density of water 1000m3/kg J is given Cm is given But what to do with the temperatures... ΔT= Th-Ta? But then you get a negative number and the ask for the power...

Homework Statement The actual efficiency of a geothermal power plant using a 200 C geothermal resource is only about 7%. Take this value as typical of California's Geysers geothermal field, which produces 900 MW of electric power. a) Find the actual rate of geothermal heat extraction at...

Homework Statement In winter, you like to keep your house interior at 21.0 degrees C. Your geothermal heating system, which was advertised as being reversible, draws thermal energy from an underground reservoir at 347 K. In a cold winter, with the average outdoor temperature being 0.0...

1. Water at T1=240 C and P1=16 MPa is at 2 km depth. A drilling hole with diameter 0.2 m has the water flowing up with mass flow rate at 2 kg/s. The hole is considered adiabatic(no heat transfer). I need to find the following values at the top of the hole: Enthalpy(h), temperature(T2)...

I'm going a bit off the reservation to try something experimental when I attempt my own HVAC installation and I'm having some trouble determining a few things. I want to transfer heat from water flowing in a 3/4" copper tube that is submersed in a larger body of water. The copper pipe has a...

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Does anyone have any recommendations for an undergraduate degree that would prepare one for a career in geothermal energy production. Petroleum engineering deals with the injection and recovery of fluids from the earth, but strong arguments can be made for the value of an ME or CE path. Any...

What are the other types of geothermal cycles aside from dry, binary and flash?

I am about to pour a concrete floor in an addition to my basement (about 13' x 24'). This room is adjacent to my electric water heater. I have bought a 9500 btu R-22 compressor which I plan to use to replace the electric element in my 50 gallon water heater. The condenser is the water heater...

Why is the center of the Earth so hot so that we can use geothermal? Will the Earth deep down always be hot because of the pressure of all the mass on top all the way to the surface? In that sense, can we always draw on the geothermal heat?

Hi, I have access to a hot spring. I was thinking it may be ideal to construct a small geothermal electric generation unit using the steam. Question is, if I have access to the hot spring, is this enough as a source to go ahead with a geothermal generating unit of say 100 kw - 200 kw, which is...

Hello, I am hoping someone on here can help me find a source for a science question I have. How much power enters the Earth's atmosphere from the Earth itself [Geothermal power]? I was reading a discussion on another website, where someone was asking about the Global Warming effect of...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pubnews.php Helium isotopes point to the best sources of geothermal energy Unknown to most, the US has enough geothermal energy below its surface to supply three times the amount of energy that the US consumes annually. Up until this point no one has tapped this...

I'm looking to make a geothermal power generator out of something like a refrigerator or a small air conditioning unit (or even a car AC unit) Is there anybody here who as experience with these thing and would like to discuss design ideas and the physics behind them here? I really have no...

Well most ppl thing this is a clean energy, but I'm skeptical about it. What we are doing here is that we are using the heat from the depth of the Earth to cool our water for powerplants. If we build thousands of those to use this energy, wouldn't we be cooling our planet? cause otherwise those...

Does anybody know where one could get a full data set from an existing geothermal well for a project? Im attempting to propose design of a stirling prime-mover power plant and I can't seem to find the complete information.

I was wondering how feasible it would be to drill through the thinner ocean crust to create artificial geothermal spots for energy production. The crust is only about 10km thick, and drills have gone that deep but only on continental crust which is much thicker. I guess drilling and maintaining...