690 results about "Geothermal energy" patented technology

There has been invented a method for producing geothermal energy using supercritical fluids for creation of the underground reservoir, production of the geothermal energy, and for heat transport. Underground reservoirs are created by pumping a supercritical fluid such as carbon dioxide into a formation to fracture the rock. Once the reservoir is formed, the same supercritical fluid is allowed to heat up and expand, then is pumped out of the reservoir to transfer the heat to a surface power generating plant or other application.

The invention discloses a solar-air-geothermal multisource dual-machine heat pump heat supply and air conditioning composite system, relates to a heat supply, air conditioning and refrigerating composite system which takes solar energy, air and a ground source heat pump of a buried tube as cold and heat sources, and belongs to the technical field of building environment, equipment engineering and refrigeration engineering. The system comprises a solar thermal collector (1), the buried tube (3), a heat storage water tank (13), a heat storage / exchanger water tank (17), a control system, an end user (16) and the like. The invention provides a multisource dual-compressor heat pump system which takes the solar energy, geothermal energy and air as the cold and heat sources; and the system can supply heat in winter, refrigerate in summer and supply hot water for daily life all year round. Moreover, the overheat of the solar thermal collector in summer is avoided, so that the heat of the solar energy is stored in soil for use in the winter; and the system particularly has higher applicability in the area in which heat load in the winter is greater than cold load in summer.

A building air conditioning system using geothermal energy comprising an underground pipe being buried underground for transmitting geothermal energy from the underground to air from the outdoors and for controlling humidity of said air and cleaning said air, a cobble stone layer constituted by filling numerous cobble stones in a space under the floor of a building for introducing air from said underground pipe to heat-exchange this introduced air with geothermal energy stored therein and to control humidity of said air and to clean said air, and air supply means for supply air from said cobble stone layer to an inside of a room of the building.

Invented is a method of making combustion air for a fossil fuel burner, as a coal burning power plant, oil refinery or gas fired household appliance. Combustion air is made from solar, wind, biomass, hydropower or geothermal. A staged progression using lower cost greenhouses, or flatplates, or solarponds, feed warm air to higher cost concentrator solar collectors. Wind energy, biomass, geothermal energy heat and compress combustion air. Hydropower also heats and compresses combustion air. Solar evaporation from salt or impure water creates water or local rain for the hydropower system. Combustion air thus is made economically hot, compressed and high velocity, and placed into a heavily insulated pipes for long distance transmission to a distant power plant.

The present invention relates to a refrigeration system, associated system of heating and refrigeration, geothermal energy utilizing system, cold storing apparatus, heat storing apparatus and the accessories thereof, and in particular relates to an air conditioning system utilizing natural cold energy, geothermal energy, thermal waste, residual heat and environmental friendly energy.

The invention relates to the field of geothermal exploitation and provides a method for self-circulation exploitation of geothermal energy of hot dry rock with multilateral well and volume fracturing technologies. According to the method, firstly, multilateral well holes are drilled in different depths of a reservoir of the hot dry rock, the reservoir between upper and lower multilateral well holes is fractured with the volume fracturing technology, a high-permeability hot dry rock reservoir is constructed, and finally, thermal-carrying media are injected and exploited for geothermal exploitation. Annularly-injected low-temperature thermal-carrying media flow to the fractured reservoir of the hot dry rock along the multilateral well holes in the upper part of the reservoir, flow to the multilateral well holes in the lower part under the double actions of injection pressure and potential-energy difference and finally flow back to the ground along an oil pipe. According to the method, the multilateral well and fracturing technologies are sufficiently utilized, the reservoirs of the hot dry rock are effectively communicated, the problem about crack communication during conventional double-well fracturing for injection and exploitation is solved, the potential-energy difference in different depths can be further effectively utilized, and the flowing capability of the thermal-carrying media is greatly improved. With the use of the thermal insulation oil pipe, the thermal loss in the exploitation process of the thermal-carrying media is further reduced, and the exploitation efficiency of geothermal energy is improved.

The invention relates to a field of geothermal energy development and provides a method for exploiting compact dry heat rock geothermal energy by utilizing a long horizontal well self-circulation structure. According to the invention, a single long horizontal well in a dry heat rock storage layer is utilized, an oil pipe-loop empty circulation structure of the single long horizontal well is adopted under a condition of not cracking the dry heat rock storage layer for performing circulation injection and production of heat carrying medium. During the injection process, a horizontal segment can be utilized fully for heating the heat carrying medium. During a production process, a prestress heat isolation oil tube is used for reducing heat loss of the heat carrying medium by using the prestress heat isolation oil tube. According to the invention, fluid loss caused by cracking can be avoided and the contact area of a well shaft and the storage layer is increased effectively due to the long horizontal segment. During the injection and production process, the temperature difference of the heat carrying medium also causes heat siphonage, so that ground injection and suction pump power is reduced effectively. At the same time, due to the closeness of the long horizontal well self-circulation structure, condition is provided for performance optimization of the heat carrying medium and problems of corrosion and scale formation are avoided and the heat collecting process becomes more reliable and stable.

The invention discloses a self-balancing integrated application system of a solar energy-ground source heat pump, comprising an air conditioner end system, a ground source heat pump system, a hot water supply system, a solar energy heat-collection system and an automatic control system, wherein the ground source heat pump system comprises a ground buried pipe heat exchanger (6), a compressor (1),an indoor side heat exchanger (3) and an environment side heat exchanger (5), and the automatic control system is used for controlling all the automatic equipment in the self-balancing integrated application system of the solar energy-ground source heat pump. The invention can effectively realize the functions of cold and warm air conditioning and hot water supply, mainly can switch the working modes of the ground source heat pump and a solar energy hot water system automatically by the control system, thereby solving the problem of imbalance of the ground source heat pump in winter and summerand enhancing the utilization rate of regenerative energy (solar energy and geothermal energy) in energy used for construction to the maximum.

The invention provides an exploitation method of a communication well of a geothermal energy bore well. At least one general vertical well of the bore wells is used as the target well having the appointed well depth, and a technical sleeve is installed to fix the well; the other oriental horizontally butted well is bored at a certain distance, and the oriental horizontally butted well sequentially comprises a vertical section, an incline section and a horizontal section, wherein the horizontal section is butted and communicated with the bottom of each of the target wells, or the horizontal section is butted and communicated with the bottom of each of the target wells by compression fracture technique when reaching the target area at the bottom of the target well. The bottom of the target well is expanded by a way of bit hole-expansion or well bottom explosion; preferably the diameter of the target well is larger than 200 mm. The invention ensures that two (or more) holes (wells) are communicated, and water is injected into one (or more) well, the water at normal temperature performs the heat exchange with the geothermal resource underground through a drilling passage, and then theother well(s) can produce high-temperature hot water. The invention has the advantages that the exploitation method is not influenced by the landform and the slotted rock stratum.

A composite energy system of solar energy, ground source heat pump and chilled water storage comprises an air conditioner, a domestic hot water supply device, one or more device (hereinafter referred to as host) of a solar energy heat-collecting device, a heat storage water tank unit, a cold storage water tank unit and a ground source heat pump system, a ground heat exchanger, an auxiliary heating device, a circulating water pump, a first electric three-way valve, a second electric three-way valve, a first electric two-way valve and a second electric two-way valve, wherein the circulating water pump is communicated with the air conditioner, and the auxiliary heating device is communicated with the domestic hot water supply device. The invention fully utilizes renewable energy sources such as solar energy, geothermal energy and biomass energy to masterly combine the ground source heat pump air-conditioning system with the solar energy hot water system and the chilled water storage system and construct a comprehensive energy system combined by the domestic hot water system, the ground source heat pump, the chilled water storage air-conditioning system and the like; and the invention is completely combined with the entire building so as to greatest reduce the floor space and the investment and increase the energy efficiency and economic performance of the system.

Utilisation of geothermal energy in depths above 5 km could contribute considerably to resolving the global problems related to a lack of energy and to glasshouse gases from fossil fuels. The invention describes innovative equipment which makes deep holes in geological formations (rock) by disintegrating the soil into blocks carried to the land surface through the excavated hole filled with liquid, using transport modules yielded up by gas buoyancy interaction in the transport module utilising supercavitation. In an opposite direction—by help of negative buoyancy—the necessary energy carriers, materials and components, or entire devices required for rock excavation, are carried to the bottom. The opportunity to transport rock in entire blocks reduces energy consumption considerably, because the rock is disintegrated in the section volumes only. Some of the extracted rock and material carried from the surface is used to make a casing of the hole using a part of the equipment. The equipment also allows the generation of the necessary high pressure of liquid at the bottom of the hole, to increase permeability of adjacent rock. The equipment as a whole allows by its function that there is almost linear dependence between the price and depth (length) of the produced hole (borehole).

One embodiment of a system of geothermal energy production containing a production fluid circulated entirely within a continuous subterranean pipeline (13 and 16) while below the earth's surface (11) so that the production fluid is heated, via the encasing pipe, by surrounding subterranean hot rock (12). By directing the heated production fluid through said continuous subterranean pipeline up to the earth's surface and through a power plant (19), energy can be produced from the hot production fluid.This system enables energy production from subterranean rock formations of moderate temperature at moderate depths because any production fluid, such as water, hydrocarbon, or refrigerant, can be used to optimize energy production. Furthermore, natural porosity and permeability of the subterranean rock formations at moderate depths may provide sufficient natural circulation of interstitial water to assist in heat transfer from large volumes of hot rock without the need of inducing artificial fractures.

A self sustaining energy system for a building is provided part of which is typically driven by geothermal energy. The energy system typically uses a ground source heat pump for heating and cooling the building airspace and an organic Rankine cycle drive for producing electricity. A solar powered heating system may also serve as a heat source for providing domestic hot water and supplemental airspace heating.

Methods and systems for extracting geothermal energy from an underground hot dry rock reservoir using supercritical carbon dioxide are disclosed. In a first step, the methods and systems utilize a heat exchanger in a binary system to heat a secondary fluid that is used to perform work. In a second step, the supercritical carbon dioxide is transferred to a pseudo turbine (e.g., a free-piston linear engine) to perform additional work through expansion.

The invention relates to a complete set of industrialized culture production equipment and facility of button mushrooms, comprising an energy-saving mixing greenhouse, an energy-saving primary fermentation bin, an energy-saving secondary fermentation and spawnrunning greenhouse, an energy-saving tertiary fermentation and mushroom culture greenhouse, a secondary fermentation, spawnrunning and mushroom culture bedstead, a primary fermentation bin feeding machine, a conveying machine, a net puller, an appending machine, an appending unit, a discharging unit, an automatic culture material unloading mover, an energy-saving comprehensive cooling device, an energy-saving comprehensive heating device and an energy-saving fresh air conditioning unit. The equipment and facility have simple structure and low manufacture cost, fully utilize natural energies, such as solar energy, geothermal energy, and the like, and reduces the consumption of coal, fuel, and the like, thereby being a set of energy-saving, emission-reducing and environment-friendly equipment and facility.

A system and method for generating and distributing a closed loop riparian geothermal energy infrastructure. This system fills the need for the average home to tie into an existing geothermal “grid” constructed along, adjacent to or underneath a riparian body. The user may not need to invest in the geothermal infrastructure necessary outside the home to enable a geothermal system inside a home. The user, instead, is responsible for creating the section of the geothermal system that exists in the interior home infrastructure. In one embodiment of the invention, the infrastructure comprises at least one distribution flow line having a forward line for a first phase and a return flow line for circulatory second phase. The distribution flow line is coupled to any point along a main flow line. The main line flow line is buried to a sufficient depth within a riparian body for converting the first and second phases.

Utilization of geothermal energy in depths above 5 km could contribute considerably to resolving the global problems related to a lack of energy and to glasshouse gases from fossil fuels. The invention describes innovative equipment which makes deep holes in geological formations (rock) by disintegrating the soil into blocks carried to the land surface through the excavated hole filled with liquid, using transport modules yielded up by gas buoyancy interaction in the transport module utilizing supercavitation. In an opposite direction—by help of negative buoyancy—the necessary energy carriers, materials and components, or entire devices required for rock excavation, are carried to the bottom. The opportunity to transport rock in entire blocks reduces energy consumption considerably, because the rock is disintegrated in the section volumes only. Some of the extracted rock and material carried from the surface is used to make a casing of the hole using a part of the equipment. The equipment also allows the generation of the necessary high pressure of liquid at the bottom of the hole, to increase permeability of adjacent rock. The equipment as a whole allows by its function that there is almost linear dependence between the price and depth (length) of the produced hole (borehole).

A chimney type wind power generator includes: a vertical chimney shaped wind guide pipe, supporting device, at least one leaf wheel pivotedly set in the above pipe, and a generator. A heating device is on the bottom in the pipe. The heating device can adopt the geothermal energy or electric power saved by the power generator in peak time to generate. The armature unit and magnetic pole unit can be respectively set on the out edge of the leaf wheel and inside the pipe or the leaf wheel axle. There is an assistant covering device on the upper end of the pipe, on the output side, plural horizontal wind power generators parallel to the leaf wheel axle can be set to enhance the power generator efficiency. The wind power generator can keep running in a long time, and prevent from the cyclone damage.

This invention provides a method of extracting geothermal energy, generally comprising the steps of: insertion of a thermal mass into a Heat Absorption Zone, absorbing heat in thermal mass, raising the thermal mass to a Heat Transfer Zone, and transferring the heat from the thermal mass. The acquired heat can be used to generate electricity or to drive an industrial process.The thermal mass can have internal chambers containing a liquid such as molten salt, and can also have structures facilitating heat exchange using a thermal exchange fluid, such as a gas or a glycol-based fluid.In some embodiments, two thermal masses are used as counterweights, reducing the energy consumed in bringing the heat in the thermal masses to the surface. In other embodiments, solid or molten salt can be directly supplied to a well shaft to acquire geothermal heat and returned to the surface in a closed loop system.

The invention relates to methods and systems of converting electrical energy to chemical energy and optionally reconverting it to produce electricity as required. In preferred embodiments the source of electrical energy is at least partially from renewable source. The present invention allows for convenient energy conversion and generation without the atmospheric release of CO2. One method for producing methane comprises electrolysis of water to form hydrogen and oxygen, and using the hydrogen to hydrogenate carbon dioxide to form methane. It preferred to use the heat produced in the hydrogenation reaction to heat the water prior to electrolysis. The preferred electrical energy source for the electrolysis is a renewable energy source such as solar, wind, tidal, wave, hydro or geothermal energy. The method allows to store the energy gained at times of low demand in the form of methane which can be stored and used to generate more energy during times of high energy demand. A system comprising an electrolysis apparatus and a hydrogenation apparatus, and a pipeline for the transportation of two fluids, is also described.

Recovery and conversion of geothermal energy from geologically stable, hot, dry rock is disclosed. Deep boreholes are drilled to form a system of feed and return conduits in the non-porous formation. Fluid is passed through the conduits where heat energy is transferred to the moving fluid. The return conduit brings the hot fluid to an energy conversion station located underground where the thermal energy is converted into electrical energy. Power from the generator and warm water are supplied to the community for use. To form the deep boreholes, a series of large diameter boreholes is drilled, and the rig is moved down at intervals until the environment becomes intolerable. At that depth, a final borehole is drilled to reach the optimum temperature level. The system of this invention taps an unlimited source of energy in this country and accomplishes this in a manner that is both cost efficient and environmentally friendly.

A system for adapting an HVAC system in an existing building for utilizing geothermal energy is described. The system uses an incoming flux of geothermal energy, along with a plurality of heat exchange surfaces adapted to receive the incoming flux of geothermal energy. The system also includes an interface between the HVAC system and the heat exchange surfaces. The interface is adapted to transfer the geothermal energy to the system. A multiplier sub for a drill rig and several drilling assemblies are also described, along with a system to reduce vibration.

The invention relates to a reinforced concrete square post prefabricated by low temperature and terrestrial heat. It embeds post heat exchangers in variable shapes into the prefabricated reinforced concrete square post to support, baffle sand and reinforce the groundsill; processes the lower-layer lower temperature terrestrial heat exchanger to directly embed the post heat exchanger with pile and heat pump. It binds U-shape pipe heat exchanger, screw coiler heat exchanger or the pipe heat exchanger in other shape on the inner edge of prefabricated reinforced concrete square post with welding method or flange method to be embedded into sand; the pipe heat exchangers inside the prefabricated reinforced concrete square post are connected to the ground pipeline while the pipeline of heat exchanger is filled by fluid via which the heat exchange between steel cage, post concrete and around sand-water system can be processed to form a closed underground low-temperature terrestrial heat exchange.

A geothermal power system for production of power, and in particular electrical energy, utilizing naturally occurring geothermal energy sources and a method for identifying and converting manmade and natural geological formations into a substantial source of energy and at the same time providing remediation of environmental and safety hazards. Utilizing surface air that is substantially cooler than the geothermal temperature of the subterranean cavern an induced air flow will be produced. This naturally induced air flow will be harnessed and provide the energy to the system power plants for production of electrical energy. The system includes a hydroelectric power system, a geothermal well, underground farms, heat recovery systems, a source of renewable biomass material, and air and water remediation systems.

The invention discloses a solar energy and geothermal energy assistant centralized heating system belonging to the technical field of centralized heating. A heating station is provided with a geothermal source adsorption heat pump unit, a centralized heating system once-network high-temperature hot water drives the adsorption heat pump, a soil source serves as the low-order heat source of the adsorption heat pump, heating medium adsorbs heat from earth and releases heat in a heat-pump evaporator, and adsorbed geothermy is used for secondary network heat supply. In order to restore soil temperature, the system adopts solar energy to serve as an assistant heat source; in the heating season, solar energy and geothermal energy mutually supplements; in the non-heating season, solar energy is independently used to recharge heat into ground so as to restore soil temperature and keep the soil temperature balanced in the whole year. The system takes the adsorption heat pump to replace a water-water heat exchanger and improves system heat supply amount by recovering environment heat; a solar energy soil heat accumulation mode is used for improving the utilization ration and system stability of the solar energy heat collector; and heat network water is used for driving the heat pump, thus saving a great quantity of electric power consumption, and lowering operation cost.

The invention discloses an S-CO2 power generation system and method for developing geothermal energy of hot dry rock based on a finned casing pipe. The finned casing pipe is a coaxial casing pipe, andthe system is composed of an outer-layer descending pipe segment, an outer-layer enhanced heat exchanging pipe segment, an inner backflow pipe, an S-CO2 gas turbine, a power generator, a compressor and the like. According to the innovation point of the S-CO2 power generation system and method for developing the geothermal energy of the hot dry rock based on the finned casing pipe, by means of closed-loop circulation of S-CO2 in the finned casing pipe, the geothermal energy is transmitted to the gas turbine from a hot dry rock layer; the finned casing pipe and the gas turbine both adopt the S-CO2 as circulating work media, and the heat exchanger end difference is eliminated; and fins are added outside a hot dry rock segment, the heat transfer area is increased, and the single well output is improved. The S-CO2 flows to the bottom of a heat taking well from the outer layer of a heat taking casing pipe to be collected to the inner layer, the geothermal energy in the hot dry rock is absorbed in the descending process, temperature ceaselessly rises, the S-CO2 then flows back to the ground from the inner layer, and the geothermal energy is converted into high-grade electric energy through the S-CO2 gas turbine and the power generator. After being detected by a work medium detecting unit and pressurized by the compressor, the S-CO2 starts new circulating, and sustainable exploitationof the geothermal energy of the hot dry rock is achieved.

The invention tries to knock through the interior of a closed building into a communicated whole body to perform air management for the first time, and provides a means to treat air and water directly by means of geothermal constant-temperature energy and maintain the temperature of the air and wall bodies indoor in two ways for the first time. On the basis of taking the means as a main mode of auxiliary refrigerating and heating, various problems of temperature control, air quality and ventilation in a closed house are effectively solved by combining wind power and solar energy for supplementing power for a system, taking good heat insulating performance of the house as a platform and taking high-efficiency sunshine collection as the means for raising the room temperature.

The invention relates to a novel geothermal energy solar central air conditioner system and belongs to the technical field of central air conditioning systems, in particular to a high-efficient and energy-saving device for refrigerating or supplying heat for a green environmental protection area. The device comprises a solar thermal collector, a hot water storage tank, a water tank valve, a ground tube valve, a circulating water pump, a ground tube heat collecting system, a heat exchanger, and a floor radiation or fan coil. A ground source heat pump uses energy of normal-temperature soil on shallow ground or ground temperature in water source as a low-grade heat energy resource. The system is suitable for houses and commercial buildings, and is the energy-saving technology with sustainable development. The system realizes heat transmission to ground heat sources by using flowing of a cyclic medium in a closed ground pipe. The system adopts solar energy as auxiliary heat sources. The solar thermal collector is preferentially used for colleting heat when sunshine is sufficient. The heat pump system can be designed with smaller load, and thus, the initial investment of the ground source heat pump can be greatly reduced.

A signal transmission connection for a tool string used in exploration and production of natural resources, namely: oil, gas, and geothermal energy resources. The connection comprises first and second annular elements deployed in cooperative association with each other. The respective elements comprise inductive transducers that are capable of two-way signal transmission between each other, with downhole components of the tool string, and with ground-level equipment. The respective inductive transducers comprise one or more conductive loops housed within ferrite troughs, or within ferrite trough segments. When energized, the conductive loops produce a magnetic field suitable for transmitting the signal. The second element may be rotational in drilling applications. The respective elements may be fitted with electronic equipment to aid and manipulate the transmission of the signal. The first element may also be in communication with the World Wide Web.