3037results about "Geothermal energy generation" patented technology

A method of constructing an injection well for a geothermal energy system comprising determining a fracture area of an injection well with a curved wellbore by inputting the curved wellbore path, a set of formation properties, and a fracturing operation, into a fracturing model. The curved wellbore path can promote fracture interference between fracture stresses extending from the injection wellbore. A production model can determine an economic value of the production fluids produced from at least one production well by determining a contact time for the injection fluids to traverse the formation. A design process can iterate the curved wellbore path of the injection well to produce a production fluid with an economic value above a threshold value.

Disclosed is a fracture plugging simulation experimental device and an experimental method thereof. The device comprises a simulated wellbore, a simulated formation, a simulated fracture, a plurality of pressure sensors and vales, a mixing barrel, a liquid injection port and a pressurization port, a liquid collection tank, a plugging fluid storage tank, a heating device, etc. The method comprises: loading the simulated formation with the simulated fracture in the simulated wellbore, closing the second valve and turning on the mixing device, injecting a lost circulation material into the mixing barrel, closing the liquid injection port and turning on the heating device and pressurizing, stopping pressurizing and opening the second valve to establish a plugging process, turning on the plunger pump to continue pressurizing, and collecting a fluid pressure change of the simulated fracture in the plugging process; and calculating a pressure-bearing capacity of plugged fracture.

A heat source inversion-based tunnel high-temperature heat hazard advanced geological detection method and system. The method comprises: by means of multi-view joint observation of "rock wall and drilling", extracting two kinds of collected temperature data to form a new sequence, carrying out inversion interpretation on the sequence, constructing a least square-based three-dimensional heat source inversion objective function and an inversion equation, and solving for the inversion equation; and on the basis of a solution result, forming a heat source and temperature field imaging result graph of high-temperature heat hazard detection within a detection area range. The present invention achieves effective positioning and capturing of a high-temperature heat source, high-temperature heat hazard level division and heat hazard risk evaluation, and provides a reference basis for determining a tunnel design and construction scheme.

A method of constructing an injection well for a geothermal energy system comprising determining a fracture area of an injection well with a curved wellbore by inputting the curved wellbore path, a set of formation properties, and a fracturing operation, into a fracturing model. The curved wellbore path can promote fracture interference between fracture stresses extending from the injection wellbore. A production model can determine an economic value of the production fluids produced from at least one production well by determining a contact time for the injection fluids to traverse the formation. A design process can iterate the curved wellbore path of the injection well to produce a production fluid with an economic value above a threshold value.

A geothermal system is used for obtaining heated heat transfer fluid, such as steam, via heat transfer with an underground reservoir of magma. The geothermal system includes a wellbore extending between a surface and into an underground chamber formed in a reservoir of magma. The chamber may be formed by injecting a fluid at an increased pressure into underground magma to form a cavity that acts as the underground chamber.

A system and method for geothermal heat production. A balanced geothermal energy transfer loop includes a first wellbore and a second wellbore extending from surface to a subterranean geothermal formation and a plurality of balanced open hole circuits extending between the first wellbore and the second wellbore through the geothermal formation, forming a substantially sealed closed loop. Each of the plurality of circuits is designed or modified to have a substantially equal circuit parameter. The circuit parameter may include one or more of circuit fluid velocity, circuit pressure drop, circuit volume and / or circuit length. The circuit parameter may include circuit length and volume, and the circuits connect the supply / return wells in a first out / last in configuration.

The invention discloses a multi-branch middle-deep geothermal well efficient heat exchange system which comprises a main well, a plurality of branch wells and heat exchange pipes extending downwards in the main well in the vertical direction. The main well comprises a first well opening section and a second well opening section, the first well opening section extends downwards from the ground in the vertical direction to be communicated with an upper port of the second well opening section, a lower port of the second well opening section extends downwards in the vertical direction to a geothermal water layer, and an upper port of each branch well is communicated with the second well opening section. The lower port of each branch well obliquely and downwards extends to the geothermal water layer in the direction gradually away from the second opening well section; the vertical distances between the upper ports of the multiple branch wells and the ground are different, and a heat conduction metal stranded wire is arranged in each branch well in the extension direction of the branch well. The medium-deep geothermal well is designed to be of a multi-branch directional well structure, the heat conduction metal stranded wires are arranged in the branch wells in the extension directions of the branch wells, and therefore the geothermal energy taking capacity and the heat transfer efficiency of the stratum far away from the medium-deep geothermal well are greatly improved.

Systems and generating power in an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) operation to supply electrical power. In embodiments, an inlet temperature of a flow of gas from a source to an ORC unit may be determined. The source may connect to a main pipeline. The main pipeline may connect to a supply pipeline. The supply pipeline may connect to the ORC unit thereby to allow gas to flow from the source to the ORC unit. Heat from the flow of gas may cause the ORC unit to generate electrical power. The outlet temperature of the flow of the gas from the ORC unit to a return pipe may be determined. A bypass valve, positioned on a bypass pipeline connecting the supply pipeline to the return pipeline, may be adjusted to a position sufficient to maintain temperature of the flow of gas above a threshold based on the inlet and outlet temperature.

The present disclosure describes a system and a method for generating energy from geothermal sources. The system includes an insulated injection pipe and a common well segment, an injection well and a production well, a first lateral section connected to the injection well and a second lateral section connected to the production well, a multilateral connector joining the first and second lateral sections, the insulated injection pipe coinciding with the common well segment, defining a pressure-tested loop within the rock formation and in a heat transfer arrangement therewith. The loop cased in steel and cemented in place. The loop to receive working fluid capable of undergoing phase change within the downhole well loop as a result of heat transferred from the rock formation. The system also includes a pump to circulate working fluid, a turbine system to convert the flow of working fluid into electricity, and a cooler.

The invention provides a hot dry rock terrestrial heat extraction method capable of efficiently adapting to complex heat storage conditions. The method comprises the steps that a heat-fluid-solid coupling relation in the terrestrial heat exploitation process is established, a dynamic porosity and permeability model is established based on the heat-fluid-solid coupling relation, and a terrestrial heat exploitation model is established based on the porosity and permeability model. According to the method, the heat extraction efficiency and the accumulated heat are remarkably improved, the heat competition effect between the production wells is reduced, the service life of the production wells is prolonged, the mining requirements under the complex geological conditions are met, the prediction precision of the heat-fluid-solid model is improved by dynamically adjusting the reservoir characteristics such as porosity and permeability, and the mining efficiency is improved. The problems of high thermal competition, inaccurate prediction and low mining efficiency in the prior art are solved, and a sustainable optimization scheme with high economical efficiency is provided for geothermal exploitation of the hot dry rock.

A method includes determining a specified demand as a function of time of thermal energy from a heat exchanger of a heat pump. The heat pump is configured to transfer thermal energy to the heat exchanger from a geothermal working fluid circulating in a closed-loop geothermal well. The closed-loop geothermal well includes a first surface wellbore extending from a terranean surface to a geothermal subterranean zone, a second surface wellbore extending from the terranean surface to the geothermal subterranean zone, and plurality of connecting wellbores connecting the first surface wellbore to the second surface wellbore The heat output from the heat exchanger is controlled to meet a specified demand by adjusting at least one of a flow rate or inlet temperature of the geothermal working fluid in the closed-loop geothermal well.

The invention provides a deep carbonate rock geothermal reservoir exploitation system, and relates to the technical field of geothermal energy exploitation. By analyzing the physical and mechanical properties of rock, the thermal expansion effect is induced by heat flow injection to generate fractures; the fracture width and the surface area are increased through dissolution of a hydrochloric acid-citric acid solution, and the solution concentration and the injection rate are optimized; thermal conductivity and temperature data of a reservoir are collected, the injection and production well spacing and flow are adjusted in real time, and heat-flow dynamic balance is achieved; a heat insulation layer material is installed on the inner wall of the shaft, the heat conduction coefficient and thickness of the heat insulation layer are optimized by monitoring shaft heat loss data, finally the heat loss control rate is generated to evaluate the heat insulation performance, and efficient and sustainable development of deep carbonate rock geothermal resources is achieved.

Methods and systems are provided for extracting thermal energy from a geothermal reservoir. One aspect involves drilling at least one sidetrack that extends from a primary wellbore and intersects at least one fracture target in the geothermal reservoir. The at least one sidetrack can be configured to increase fluid flow into the primary wellbore from the at least one fracture target. The increase of fluid flow into the primary wellbore from the at least one fracture target as provided by the at least one sidetrack can increase the amount of captured heat from the geothermal reservoir.

Provided is a method of constructing a geothermal heat exchanger comprised of a geothermal well(s) that maximizes heat transfer from sweet spots of geothermal energy of a geothermal reservoir to the geothermal well(s). The method involves dynamically identifying the sweet spots, and selecting a predetermined shape and / or increasing a dimension of the geothermal well(s) within the sweet spots to increase a surface area of contact between the geothermal well(s) and the sweet spots. The method further involves calculating a mathematical best fit line to minimize a distance between the geothermal well(s) and the sweet spots, and forming at least a part of the geothermal well(s) to, or to a proximity of, the sweet spots along the mathematical best fit line. Methods may include increasing an effective thermal radius of the geothermal well(s) by geothermal fracturing, geothermal acidizing, or geothermal multilateral wells, and embedding thermal energy storage (TES) materials therein.

The present disclosure provides a non-condensable gas reduction system that is easy to maintain and returns non-condensable gas contained in geothermal fluid to a reduction well. [Solution] A non-condensable gas reduction system for use in a geothermal power plant, comprising a gas-liquid separator that separates geothermal fluid flowing from a production well into a first gas and a first liquid, a turbine that rotates by the first gas, and a condenser that cools the first gas that rotates the turbine and condenses the steam contained in the first gas into a second liquid, the non-condensable gas reduction system also comprising a pump that pressurizes a third liquid to be sent to a reinjection well, and an ejector that is driven by the third liquid, attracts non-condensable gas contained in the first gas that remains uncondensed in the condenser, and discharges a fourth liquid which is a mixture of the third liquid and the non-condensable gas, in which the first liquid and the fourth liquid are mixed and sent to the reinjection well.

The invention discloses a method for analyzing the influence of a rock mass multi-scale structure on deep geothermal reservoir circular mining, and relates to the technical field of geothermal resource development and rock mechanics, and the method comprises the following steps: establishing a reservoir rock mass mechanical analysis model and a seepage heat transfer analysis model which simultaneously comprise a microscopic microcrack structure and a macroscopic crack structure; based on the reservoir seepage heat transfer analysis model, reservoir temperature field and seepage field analysis is carried out, and water pressure and temperature distribution results are transmitted to the mechanical analysis model; based on the reservoir mechanical analysis model, reservoir stress and deformation analysis under the heat-water-force coupling effect is carried out, and changes of microcosmic microcrack and macroscopic crack structures in the reservoir rock mass are obtained; the rock mass permeability evolution equation and the porosity evolution equation are adopted to calculate the reservoir rock mass permeability tensor and the porosity, and the reservoir rock mass permeability tensor and the porosity are transmitted to the seepage heat transfer analysis model; and solving the reservoir temperature field, the water pressure field and the mechanical response in the geothermal circulation exploitation process by adopting a seepage heat transfer analysis and mechanical analysis staggered iteration mode. By analyzing the reservoir temperature, the water pressure, the deformation evolution response and the reservoir permeability change in the geothermal exploitation process, geothermal exploitation design and protection can be reasonably carried out, and the application prospect is good.

A system and method for harnessing geothermal energy using fracturing of hot rock. The system has at least a first well and a second well. The method involves introducing an alkali metal downhole in a first well. A solution is also introduced into the first well. The solution produces an exothermic reaction with the alkali metal. The gas and heat fracture the hot rock producing fractures. The fractures fluidly connects the first well to the second well. A solution, such as water, can be pumped through the first well, through the fractures, and into the second well. The hot rock passes geothermal energy to the water which can then be utilized.

The invention discloses a deep learning-based middle-deep layer geothermal pipe group multi-field coupling simulation method, which comprises the following steps: carrying out numerical simulation cross mutual verification to obtain a middle-deep layer buried pipe heat pump system model, and carrying out system configuration by adopting a Monte Carlo method to obtain a first parameter environment set; screening the first parameter environment set according to a parameter environment function to obtain a second parameter environment set, performing data augmentation to obtain mid-deep layer geothermal pipe group simulation data, constructing a mid-deep layer geothermal pipe group multi-field coupling deep learning model, and obtaining simulation heat exchange data and prediction coupling heat exchange data; and adaptive grid optimization is carried out to obtain an optimized grid size, and the optimized grid size is adopted to adjust the mid-deep layer buried pipe heat pump system model to output the mid-deep layer buried pipe multi-field coupling model. According to the method, accurate and rapid simulation of the multi-field coupling process of the medium-deep geothermal pipe group can be realized under complex geological conditions, and the method has important practical significance for promoting large-scale development and utilization of medium-deep geothermal resources.

The invention relates to the technical field of data processing, in particular to a geothermal resource exploration area three-dimensional geologic model construction method and system, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the neighborhood density similarity of each point cloud microspace according to the difference of the point cloud density values between each point cloud microspace and the surrounding point cloud microspaces; obtaining the interpolation necessity of each point cloud microspace according to the number of the point cloud data in each point cloud microspace and the neighborhood density similarity; screening all the point cloud microspaces according to the interpolation necessity to obtain all microspaces to be interpolated; and performing interpolation operation on all the to-be-interpolated microspaces to obtain an enhanced three-dimensional geologic model of the geothermal resource exploration area. According to the method, the problem of missing or non-uniform distribution of the point cloud data caused by environmental influence is eliminated, and the visibility in the three-dimensional geologic model construction process is improved.

Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a producer well through induced cracks, splits, fractures, conduits, or channels in the rock. Such methods and systems may include controlling tensile-split conduits in a subterranean geothermal formation by providing an injection well, providing a production well, configuring the injection well for injection of a tensile-splitting fluid into a production zone, configuring the production well to produce a heated fluid from the production zone, applying pressure to the production well, creating a plurality of tensile-split conduits, raising or lowering the pressure in the production well, establishing fluid communication between the injection well and the production well, and producing the heated fluid to the surface.

The invention discloses a geothermal hot spring pool thermovolt power generation and water temperature regulation and control combined system which comprises a hot spring pool and a thermovolt power generation device. A thermal insulation wall is arranged in the hot spring pool, the hot spring pool is divided into a hot spring power generation battery and a hot spring recuperating pool through the thermal insulation wall, and the thermovolt power generation device is arranged in the hot spring power generation battery; a geothermal water inlet is formed in the hot spring generating battery, and high-temperature geothermal water enters the hot spring generating battery through the geothermal water inlet; a temperature control valve system is arranged in the hot spring recuperation pool and used for controlling the temperature of hot water entering the hot spring recuperation pool. The pulsating heat pipe and the thermovolt power generation technology are creatively integrated, natural hot spring heat energy is fully utilized, temperature difference energy between hot spring water and cold water is utilized to the maximum extent before the temperature is reduced to the comfortable temperature of a human body, and the pulsating heat pipe is utilized to effectively increase the heat exchange area and heat extraction capacity; meanwhile, the thermovolt power generation chip is adopted to directly convert hot spring heat energy into electric energy, and the dual functions of hot spring water temperature adjustment and geothermal power generation utilization are achieved.

A coiled tubing system includes a coiled tubing string configured to couple to a downhole tool to move the downhole tool along a geothermal well, an injector head configured to control movement of the coiled tubing string and the downhole tool along the geothermal well, one or more sensors configured to capture sensor data indicative of a distance traveled by the coiled tubing string along the geothermal well, and a controller configured to control operation of the injector head to move the coiled tubing string and the downhole tool to a measured depth within the geothermal well that corresponds to an intersection of a feature with the geothermal well based on the sensor data received from the one or more sensors.

Systems and methods for generating electrical power in an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) operation include one or more heat exchangers incorporated into mobile heat generation units, and which will receive a heated fluid flow from one or more heat sources, and transfer heat therefrom to a working fluid that is circulated through an ORC unit for generation of power. In embodiments, the mobile heat generation units comprise pre-packaged modules with one or more heat exchangers connected to a pump of a recirculation system, including an array of piping, such that each mobile heat generation unit can be transported to the site and installed as a substantially stand-alone module or heat generation assembly.

The present invention relates to the technical field of geothermal systems, and specifically discloses a buried high-efficiency heat exchanger in a medium-deep geothermal well, comprising: an outer sleeve, an inner sleeve coaxially embedded in the outer sleeve, and a heat storage slow-flow unit located at the lower end of the inner sleeve; the heat storage slow-flow unit effectively separates a heat exchange flow channel and a return flow channel through a flow partition to prevent direct mixing of cold and hot fluids and avoid thermal short circuits; the spiral diverter and the slow-flow unit are used for dynamic adjustment to extend the fluid's underground residence time, enhance turbulence intensity, and improve heat exchange efficiency; the kinetic energy of the fluid is used to drive turbine blades and a rotating shaft to drive the diverter and reciprocating parts to move, and dynamic adjustment of the fluid path can be achieved without external energy; the slow-flow structure and the flexible capsule reduce the impact of the fluid on the formation and reduce reservoir disturbance; the closed-loop design avoids the extraction of groundwater and prevents pollution, and the inner sleeve insulation cavity blocks radial heat transfer and reduces heat loss in the return flow channel.

The invention discloses an earth heat flow joint inversion calculation method, device and system, and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: 1, obtaining a temperature constraint value; 2, obtaining a thermal parameter constraint value; 3, determining value ranges of thermal conductivity and heat generation rate parameters of each layer section; 4, constructing an initial temperature profile; 5, carrying out inversion optimization to obtain an optimal thermal parameter; and 6, calculating and extracting an earth heat flow value. By adopting the technical scheme of the invention, a high-precision and high-reliability earth heat flow value can be obtained under the constraint of a small amount of measured data.

The invention relates to a heat pipe energy pile, a heat pipe ground source heat pump system and an operation management method of the heat pipe ground source heat pump system, and solves the technical problems that an existing ground source heat pump needs extra power, is high in energy consumption and is difficult to adapt to winter and summer two-way energy supply, and the system comprises a pile foundation, a heat pipe, a heat exchanger and a heat pump unit. The heat pipe is combined with the pile foundation, is a vacuumized closed pipe body which is provided with a capillary core and filled with a phase change working medium, and is divided into an evaporation section at the lower part / side part of the pile foundation and a condensation section at the upper part of the pile foundation; the evaporation section exchanges heat with soil, the condensation section is connected with a heat exchanger, and the heat pump ground source side is connected with the heat exchanger; the capillary core drives a working medium to flow back autonomously through capillary force, and heat transfer or release is achieved. The system has the following effects that the contradiction between low consumption and annual energy supply in the prior art is solved, no extra power is achieved, two-way efficient energy supply in winter and summer is achieved, and energy consumption of a building cold and heat source system is greatly reduced.

The invention belongs to the technical field of geothermal energy development and utilization, and particularly relates to a separated ultra-deep geothermal water extraction and utilization device which comprises a base, an adjustable supporting mechanism is arranged on the base, a winch is arranged on the adjustable supporting mechanism, a sliding rod piece is arranged in a closed mine, and the winch is used for conveying the sliding rod piece to the bottom of the closed mine. A clamping mechanism used for fixing the sliding rod piece is arranged on one side of the base. The sliding rod piece is vertically arranged, a plurality of supporting plate assemblies are connected to the sliding rod piece in a sliding mode, the other ends of the supporting plate assemblies are fixedly connected to a rope on the winch, a water pumping device is arranged on the lowest supporting plate assembly, transfer water pumping devices are arranged on the rest supporting plate assemblies, and the water pumping device is communicated with the transfer water pumping devices. The device is high in reliability, can be repeatedly used, is low in cost input, and can solve the problem that hot water is difficult to extract when a mine is closed in an ultra-deep manner.

The present disclosure provides an experimental apparatus and method for simulating fracturing of a fan-shaped well pattern. The apparatus includes a stratum simulator and a wellbore simulator group. The stratum simulator includes a chamber into which materials are poured to simulate a stratum environment. The wellbore simulator group at least includes a first wellbore simulator and a second wellbore simulator. A first end of the first wellbore simulator and a first end of the second wellbore simulator are respectively located outside the chamber and provided with a control valve. A second end of the first wellbore simulator is extended into the chamber and provided with a first perforation simulator, a second end of the second wellbore simulator is extended into the chamber and passes through the corresponding first perforation simulator, and the second end of the second wellbore simulator is provided with a second perforation simulator.

The invention discloses a rock-soil temperature field rapid solving method suitable for a ground source heat pump system, and the method comprises the steps: firstly building a three-dimensional unsteady-state heat transfer model in consideration of a buried pipe coaxial structure, a porous arrangement form and the characteristics of a multilayer heterogeneous soil body in the ground source heat pump system; then simulating a thermal response process by using the model, constructing a multi-domain coupled thermal conduction augmentation matrix, performing POD on the matrix, extracting a dominant mode function of a temperature field, and constructing a low-dimensional POD-based mode space; and finally, constructing a POD-Galerkin low-order model, simulating a buried pipe group soil temperature field, performing inversion of a heat source function, and outputting stratum thermophysical parameters. According to the method, the calculation efficiency and the simulation precision of the porous coupling and long-period unsteady state heat transfer process are remarkably improved, the problem that traditional finite element and finite difference methods are high in time consumption in porous strong coupling modeling is solved, and rapid prediction of the soil temperature and robust recognition of the heat source function under a complex stratum and a heat exchange structure can be achieved.

The present application relates to the technical field of wellhead devices. Provided is an integrated wellhead device, comprising a casing head body, an elevation flange and a well completion flange, which are sequentially connected from bottom to top, wherein the casing head body has a first inner cavity; a first hanger assembly and a second hanger assembly are respectively connected to upper and lower ends of the first inner cavity in a sealed manner; the elevation flange has a second inner cavity; the well completion flange is provided with a medium output hole; a heat exchange medium injection end is connected to a lower portion of the casing head body, and an exhaust end is connected to an upper end of the casing head body; and the heat exchange medium injection end and the exhaust end are in communication with an annular space. An outflow sealed flow channel for an injected fluid is formed by means of the annular space, an inner pipe, the second inner cavity and the medium output hole, thereby achieving the function of performing both liquid injection and mining in a single well. A heat exchange medium is directly injected, and then directly flows through the outflow sealed flow channel, thereby realizing the outflow of the heat exchange medium. The integrated wellhead device can be specifically and quickly adapted for cyclic heat exchange in abandoned wells or idle geothermal wells, the overall technical solution is convenient to implement, and the transformation and assembly can be rapidly completed.