Numerical Simulation on Heat Recovery Efficiency of Different Working Fluids in High-Temperature Rock Mass

It is of great significance for the sustainable development of global energy to develop hot dry rock (HDR) geothermal resources by using enhanced geothermal system (EGS) technology. Different working fluids in EGS have different heat recovery efficiencies. Therefore, this paper takes water and CO2 a...

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Published in:Geofluids 2021, Vol.2021, p.1-12
Main Authors: Dong, Xu, Geng, Haozhe, Hao, Guan, Li, Pan, Teng, Yi, Zhang, Wen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alternative energy sources
Analysis
Carbon dioxide
China
Confining
Efficiency
Enhanced geothermal systems
Exploitation
Flow rates
Fluids
Force and energy
Geothermal resources
Heat
Heat recovery
Heat transfer
Heat treatment
High temperature
Injection
Mass flow rate
Mathematical models
Mechanical properties
Numerical analysis
Numerical simulations
Permeability
Pressure
Recovery
Rock masses
Rocks
Simulation
Sustainable development
Temperature
Thermal energy
Water flooding
Working fluids
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Summary:It is of great significance for the sustainable development of global energy to develop hot dry rock (HDR) geothermal resources by using enhanced geothermal system (EGS) technology. Different working fluids in EGS have different heat recovery efficiencies. Therefore, this paper takes water and CO2 as the heat-carrying media and establishes a thermal hydraulic mechanical coupling model to simulate the heat recovery process in high-temperature rock mass. By considering the different confining pressures, rock temperature, and injection pressure, the advantages of H2O-EGS and CO2-EGS are obtained. The results show that with the increase of confining pressure, the heat recovery efficiency of water is significantly higher than that of CO2, but at higher reservoir temperature, CO2 has more advantages as a heat-carrying medium. The net heat extraction rate will increase with the increase of injection pressure, which indicates that the mass flow rate plays a leading role in the heat recovery process and increases the injection pressure of fluid which is more conducive to the thermal recovery of EGS. This study will provide a technical guidance for thermal energy exploitation of hot dry rock under different geological conditions.
ISSN:1468-8115
1468-8123
DOI:10.1155/2021/1468825