The Energy & Geoscience Institute announces Dr. Kristie McLin as Director of Research and Science and new Principal Investigator of the Utah FORGE project, succeeding Dr. Joseph Moore.
Cooling Tower
Plant equipment that is used to dissipate heat into air rather than into a river. Cooling is induced in two different ways. For binary plants, dry cooling towers use fans to draw air across a heat exchanger and this removes heat from a working fluid causing gas to condense into liquid. In flash steam plants, wet cooling towers condense water vapor via evaporation to provide a continuous supply of cooled water that is run through the outlet of a condensing turbine.
Geothermal Glossary
Word of the Week – BHA
BHA Refers to Bottom Hole Assembly, which is the system of tools at the bottom of the drill string that is used for drilling directional wells. The BHA includes the drill bit, mud motor, drill collar, and any tools that are used for making measurements while...
Word of the Week – Binary Cycle Power Plant
Binary Cycle Power Plant A power plant in which the produced geothermal fluid passes through a heat exchanger and heats a low boiling point liquid, commonly an organic compound such as pentane, to vaporize and condense as it passes through a turbine and generate...
Word of the Week – Breccia
Breccia Angular to sub-angular fragments of broken rock that are cemented together that are highly permeable and form on the surface due to sedimentary or igneous processes or in fault zones.