Annual workshop that provides a valuable opportunity to explore the progress made by each of the 17 R& D projects funded under Solicitation 2020-1 and to get introduced to the new projects under Solicitation 2022-2.
Stored Heat
Calculated thermal energy stored in a volume of hot rock. It is calculated using the rock volume, porosity, rock density, specific heat of rock, and the difference between the reservoir temperature and the background temperature given by the geothermal gradient outside the resource area.
Geothermal Glossary
Word of the Week – Cyclone Separator
Cyclone Separator A large cylindrical vessel attached to two-phase production pipelines in geothermal fields that is used to separate dry steam from a fast-moving two-phase fluid. Steam separation results from cyclonic fluid flow, centrifugal force and gravity.
Word of the Week – DAS
DAS Distributed Acoustic Sensor. Involves the deployment of fiber optic cable on the surface or in a well, and the detection of small variations in the refractive index of the fiber based on the scattering of light pulsed from a laser. Strain and temperature can be...
Word of the Week – DFIT
DFIT Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test. A subsurface well test in which pressure is monitored as a small volume of fluid is injected into a reservoir to develop a hydraulic fracture. Monitoring continues to produce a pressure versus time plot that is analyzed to...