While enjoying the first days of 2025, we’ve taken a moment to reflect on everything that Utah FORGE accomplished during the past year. There’s a lot to be proud of!
Slotted Liner
In geothermal wells, this is a type of production casing that does not go to the surface, and instead with the aid of a “liner hanger” it extends below the casing shoe to protect the wall of the well. Slotted liner has pre-milled slots that allows for production or injection of fluids along the full length of the lined interval, wherever feed and injection points might occur in the rock formation hosting the reservoir.
Geothermal Glossary
Word of the Week – Conduction
Conduction For geothermal applications, this refers to heat transfer in solids where thermal energy flows via microscopic-submicroscopic collisions of particles, which at a macro level is seen as solid-state diffusion. A vertical conductive thermal gradient is linear...
Word of the Week – Convection
Convection Refers to heat transfer by fluid circulation in permeable rocks where thermal energy is transported with the flow of hot fluid (water or steam).
Word of the Week – Cooling Tower
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...