H043
Developments in Geothermal Energy

Session ID#: 71741

Session Description:
Geothermal energy, specifically Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS), offer the potential for a tremendous renewable resource. Exploitation of these geothermal resources is a complicated task requiring understanding of coupled thermal-hydrological-mechanical-chemical response of the rock mass in question to engineered activities such as hydraulic fracturing, and flow of low temperature water through the hot rock mass, interaction with native chemical species, and chemical interaction with the host rock. This session encourages participants to submit research on geothermal technologies, site characterization and geothermal science. Work from field sites, modeling investigations, and laboratory research, at all scales ranging from micro scale to meso scale to field scale are all welcomed.
Index Terms:

0915 Downhole methods [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
3616 Hydrothermal systems [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
8135 Hydrothermal systems [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Primary Convener:  Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Conveners:  Timothy J Kneafsey1, Paul Schwering2 and Hunter Knox2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States(2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mathew D Ingraham, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Heat Transport in the Shallow Subsurface (Numerically and Experimentally) (490031)
Claus P Haslauer1, Samuel Scherrer1, Holger Class2, Oliver Trötschler1, Jürgen Braun3 and Norbert Klaas1, (1)University of Stuttgart, IWS, VEGAS, Stuttgart, Germany, (2)Institut for Hydraulic Engineering, Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, Stuttgart, Germany, (3)University Stuttgart, IWS, VEGAS, Stuttgart, Germany
 
Insights into a Greener Stimuli-Responsive Fracturing Fluid for Geothermal Applications (503307)
Alain Bonneville1, Delphine Appriou1, Carlos Fernandez1, Varun Gupta Gupta2, Jeffrey A Burghardt1, Andrew Kuprat2, Gao Dai2, Jake Horner1 and Paul F Martin3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
 
Modeling the thermal gradient and water level of an abandoned underground coal mine AS-029 for its potential as a geothermal reservoir, Athens, OH (504277)
Andreana Madera-Martorell1, Dina A Larios Lopez2, Natalie Kruse2, Jennifer Bowman2 and Nora M Sullivan1, (1)Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States, (2)Ohio Univ, Athens, OH, United States
 
A LOCALIZED MESHLESS SCHEME COMBINED WITH ASELF-CORRECTING PREDICTION MODEL TO SIMULATE THERMAL FIELD IN PIPE COOLING CONCRETE STRUCTURE (504851)
Yongxing Hong, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China and Ji Lin, +8618551696160, Nanjing, China
 
Experimental Studies on the Fracture Permeability of Unconventional Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) (505923)
Erik Rybacki, Johannes Herrmann, Wenxia Wang and Harald H Milsch, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
 
Analysis of the characteristics of geothermal water circulation in Hexigten Global Geopark, northeast China (510161)
Yali Cui, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China
 
Experimental studies on fracture permeability of slate rocks in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) (514969)
Wenxia Wang, Harald H Milsch, Johannes Herrmann and Erik Rybacki, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
 
Geologic and in situ stress characterization of the Bedretto Underground Laboratory (BUL), an EGS test bed in the Swiss Alps (520736)
Xiaodong Ma, ETH Zurich, Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER-SoE), Zurich, Switzerland
 
Analysis of hydraulic fractures performed on the 4100 level at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (523446)
Mathew D Ingraham1, Jeffrey A Burghardt2, Craig Ulrich3, Paul Schwering1, Thomas Doe4, Doug Blankenship1, Timothy J Kneafsey3 and EGS Collab Team, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Golder Associates Inc., Redmond, IL, United States
 
Geomechanically-Induced Electrical Resistance Responses During High-Pressure Flow Tests in a Stimulated Fracture Zone (550474)
Tim C Johnson1, Christopher E Strickland1, Hunter Knox2, Jeffrey A Burghardt1, Vince R Vermeul1, Paul Schwering2, Mathew D Ingraham2, Timothy J Kneafsey3 and EGS-Collab Team, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Upwelling of Asthenosphere Makes High Heat-producing Granite Gotter: A Case Study of Application for Geothermal Exploration (566552)
Jian Kuang, Shuai Wang, Zhicai Xiao and Shihua Qi, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
 
Extraction of features of strata using borehole data of geothermal area by multivariate analysis (574419)
Hiroki Ojima, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Toru Mogi, Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, Japan, Kazuya Ishitsuka, Hokkaido University, Division of Sutainable Resources Engineering, Sapporo, Japan, Tatsuya Kajiwara, Geothermal Engineering Co., Ltd, Iwate, Japan, Takeshi Sugimoto, Geothermal Engineering Co., Ltd., Iwate, Japan and Hiroshi Asanuma, AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
 
Field-Scale Characterization of Permeability-Stress Relationship in Bedretto Underground Laboratory in Switzerland (577412)
Nima Gholizadeh Doonechaly1, Xiaodong Ma2, Marian Hertrich3 and Simon Loew3, (1)ETH Zuerich, Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER-SoE), Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER-SoE), Zurich, Switzerland, (3)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
High-Resolution Seismo-Hydromechnic Monitoring in Mesoscale Multi-stage Stimulation Experiment (578425)
Katrin Plenkers, Hannes Krietsch, Valentin Gischig, Paul Selvadurai, Alexis Shakas, Linus Villiger, Marian Hertrich, Domenico Giardini and Hansruedi Maurer, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Bedretto Deep Underground Laboratory for Geoenergies – a new Interdisciplinary Research Facility (581945)
Marian Hertrich1, Nima Gholizadeh Doonechaly2, Hannes Krietsch1, Xiaodong Ma3, Morteza Nejati1, Katrin Plenkers1, Alexis Shakas1, Thomas Driesner1, Simon Loew1, Hansruedi Maurer1, Peter Meier4, Martin O Saar1, Stefan Wiemer5 and Domenico Giardini1, (1)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zuerich, Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER-SoE), Zurich, Switzerland, (3)ETH Zurich, Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER-SoE), Zurich, Switzerland, (4)Geo-Energie Suisse AG, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Hydraulic Changes Induced by Stimulation: a Three Phase Experiment (591493)
Victoria Alegria Jimenez, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany and Joerg Renner, NA 3 / 156, Bochum, Germany
 
Stimulation and Flow Tests in Deep Crystalline Rock – The EGS Collab Project (593185)
Timothy J Kneafsey1, Doug Blankenship2, Patrick F Dobson3, Joseph Morris4, Mark D White5, Pengcheng Fu4, Paul Schwering2, Hunter Knox2, Tim C Johnson5, Jonathan Blair Ajo-Franklin6, William Roggenthen7, Thomas Doe8, Christopher E Strickland5, Lianjie Huang9, Robert K Podgorney10, Jon Weers11, Giorgia Bettin2, Dustin Crandall12, Henry Johnston11, Monica Maceira13, Roland Nicholas Horne14, Yves Guglielmi15 and EGS Collab Team, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley Nat Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (6)Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Department, Houston, TX, United States, (7)South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States, (8)Golder Associates Inc., Redmond, IL, United States, (9)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (10)Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (11)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, United States, (12)National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (13)University of Tennessee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Knoxville, TN, United States, (14)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (15)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Analysis of hydraulic and thermal characteristics in a fracture network at the EGS Collab experiment through tracer and thermal modeling (599309)
Hui Wu, Pengcheng Fu and Joseph Morris, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Geothermal energy production from depleted natural gas reservoirs using CO2 working fluids (605002)
Rafael Herrera Jr, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Brian R Ellis, University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Direct Downhole Measurement of a Stimulated Fracture Displacement First Results from the SIMFIP Tool Tests performed during the EGS Collab Project (617256)
Paul J Cook, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Yves Guglielmi, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Florian Soom, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
N.E.R.D. – Normative Estimator of Rock Diffusivity: a tool for calculating the temperature-dependence of crystalline rock thermal transport properties (633502)
Jesse D Merriman, University of Missouri Columbia, Geological Sciences, Columbia, MO, United States, Alan G Whittington, University of Missouri, Geological Sciences, Columbia, MO, United States and Anne M Hofmeister, Washington Univ, Saint Louis, MO, United States
 
Geological study of Juchipila graben, western Mexico, and radioactive heat production of ignimbrites: an example of unconventional geothermal reservoir (633811)
Emma Vanesa Martinez, Queretaro, Querétaro, Mexico, Luca Ferrari, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Teresa Orozco-Esquivel, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Centro de Geociencias, Querétaro, Mexico and Isidro Loza, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mines, Metallurgy and Geology Engineering, Guanajuato, Mexico
 
The Groundwater Characteristics in Highly Geothermal Potential Areas, the Tatun Volcano Group, Taiwan. (633850)
Jun-Yi Lin1, Ching-Huei Kuo1, Chia-Mei Liu1 and Pin-Yi Li2, (1)Department of Geology, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan
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