A management model is developed that determines the optimum
economic recoverability of a particular hot -water geothermal reservoir
undergoing exploitation for electric power generation. The management
model integrates a physical model of the reservoir that predicts the
areas of pressure decline due to withdrawals, and pressure rise due to
reinjection of spent fluid, with a model of a two -stage steam turbine
power plant that determines the quantity of electricity generated for
a rate of hot -water extraction. Capital costs, variable costs and
annual fixed costs are obtained for the reservoir development, extraction
and reinjection, the transmission system, and the power plant.
Revenues are determined for electrical power production. Application
of the management model to a simplified, yet realistic example reservoir
demonstrates that the methodology developed in this report can be used
for analyzing the management of an integrated geothermal reservoir-power
plant system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/610827 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Maddock, Thomas, III, Mercer, James W., Faust, Charles R., Attanasi, Emil D. |
| Contributors | University of Arizona, U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher | Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Technical Report |
| Source | Provided by the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources. |
| Rights | Copyright © Arizona Board of Regents |
| Relation | Technical Reports on Hydrology and Water Resources, No. 34 |
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