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Glass Mountain Fluid Inclusion Gas Analysis
Fluid inclusion gas analysis for wells in Glass Mountain geothermal area, California. Analyses used in developing fluid inclusion stratigraphy for wells and defining fluids... -
Hawthorne Fluid Inclusion Gas Analysis
Fluid inclusion gas analysis for wells in the Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot geothermal area, Nevada. Analyses used in developing fluid inclusion stratigraphy for wells and... -
Iceland Fluid Inclusion Gas Analysis
Fluid inclusion gas analysis for wells in Iceland. Analyses used in developing fluid inclusion stratigraphy for wells and defining fluids across the geothermal fields. Each... -
Fallon Fluid Inclusion Gas Analysis
Fluid inclusion gas analysis for wells in Fallon geothermal area, Nevada. Analyses used in developing fluid inclusion stratigraphy for wells and defining fluids across the... -
El Centro Fluid Inclusion Gas Analysis
Fluid inclusion gas analysis for wells in El Centro geothermal area, California. Analyses used in developing fluid inclusion stratigraphy for wells and defining fluids across... -
Beowawe Fluid Inclusion Gas Analysis
Fluid inclusion gas analysis for wells in Beowawe geothermal area, Nevada. Analyses used in developing fluid inclusion stratigraphy for wells and defining fluids across the... -
Energy Return On Investment of Engineered Geothermal Systems Data
The project provides an updated Energy Return on Investment (EROI) for Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). Results incorporate Argonne National Laboratory's Life Cycle Assessment... -
Auto Indexer Auto-Indexer for Percussive Hammers: Vane Motor Dynamometer Testing
Objectives Options associated with geothermal drilling operations are generally limited by factors such as formation temperature and rock strength. The objective of the research... -
Chemical Impact of Elevated CO2 on Geothermal Energy Production
Numerical simulations have shown that the use of supercritical CO2 instead of water as a heat transfer fluid yields significantly greater heat extraction rates for geothermal... -
Simulation Tools for Modeling Thermal Spallation Drilling on Multiple Scales
Widespread adoption of geothermal energy will require access to deeply buried resources in granitic basement rocks at high temperatures and pressures. Exploiting these resources... -
Grain-Scale Failure in Thermal Spallation Drilling
Geothermal power promises clean, renewable, reliable and potentially widely-available energy, but is limited by high initial capital costs. New drilling technologies are... -
Geomechanical Modeling for Thermal Spallation Drilling
Wells for Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) typically occur in conditions presenting significant challenges for conventional rotary and percussive drilling technologies:... -
Generalized Displacement Correlation Method for Estimating Stress Intensity Factors
This paper presents a generalized form of the displacement correlation method (the GDC method), which can use any linear or quadratic finite element type with homogeneous... -
Modeling Responses of Naturally Fractured Geothermal Reservoir to Low-Pressure Stimulation
Hydraulic shearing is an appealing reservoir stimulation strategy for Enhanced Geothermal Systems. It is believed that hydro-shearing is likely to simulate a fracture network... -
Investigation of Stimulation-Response Relationships for Complex Fracture Systems in Enhanced Geothermal Reservoirs
Hydraulic fracturing is currently the primary method for stimulating low-permeability geothermal reservoirs and creating Enhanced (or Engineered) Geothermal Systems (EGS) with... -
Using Fully Coupled Hydro-Geomechanical Numerical Test Bed to Study Reservoir Stimulation with Low Hydraulic Pressure
This paper documents our effort to use a fully coupled hydro-geomechanical numerical test bed to study using low hydraulic pressure to stimulate geothermal reservoirs with... -
Simulating Complex Fracture Systems in Geothermal Reservoirs Using an Explicitly Coupled Hydro-Geomechanical Model
Low permeability geothermal reservoirs can be stimulated by hydraulic fracturing to create Enhanced (or Engineered) Geothermal Systems (EGS) with higher permeability and... -
Fully Coupled Geomechanics and Discrete Flow Network Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing for Geothermal Applications
The primary objective of our current research is to develop a computational test bed for evaluating borehole techniques to enhance fluid flow and heat transfer in enhanced... -
Active Management of Integrated Geothermal-CO2 Storage Reservoirs in Sedimentary Formations
Active Management of Integrated Geothermal-CO2 Storage Reservoirs in Sedimentary Formations: An Approach to Improve Energy Recovery and Mitigate Risk : FY1 Final Report The...