560 results about "Geothermal power" patented technology

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 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).

The system and method to reduce the temperature of geothermal water to increase the capacity and efficiency while decreasing the costs associated with a geothermal power plant construction uses a high efficiency steam turbine. The steam turbine lowers the high temperature geothermal resource so it can be used in parallel with an innovative low temperature Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) geothermal power plant to increase the efficiency and capacity while at the same time to reduce the costs associated with constructing the power plant because of logistics, labor and material.

The invention provides a system for adapting an HVAC system in an existing building for utilizing geothermal energy, the system comprising an incoming flux of geothermal energy; a plurality of heat exchange surfaces adapted to receive the incoming flux of geothermal energy; and an interface between the HVAC system and the heat exchange surfaces, said interface adapted to transfer the geothermal energy to the system. Also provided is a method for repairing aberrations in drill borings, the method comprising using a rotary mud drill system to produce a drill hole up to the location of the aberrations; removing the rotary mud drill from the drill hole; inserting an auger into the drill hole to a point directly above the location of the aberrations; actuating the auger; introducing loose substrate into the drill hole; allowing the substrate to contact the auger; and lifting and lowering the auger along longitudinally extending regions of the drill hole defining the aberrations for a time and in substrate amounts sufficient to fill the aberrations. The invention also provides a system which facilitates rotating drill bits at an rpm which are multiples faster than their associated drill strings.

The invention discloses a geothermal energy collecting pile foundation which comprises a tubular pile, heat conduction liquid, a spreader plate, a cover plate, a bottom plate, heat conduction pipes, a collector and the like, wherein the bottom of the pile is completely closed by adopting reinforced concrete, the reinforced concrete cover plate is arranged on the top of the pile, a plurality of holes are arranged in the cover plate, the spreader plate is arranged in a cavity in the tubular pile, a plurality of holes are arranged in the locations, close to the bottom, of the spreader plate, the cavity of the tubular pile is filled with the heat conduction liquid, the heat conduction pipes penetrate through the holes in the cover plate and extend in the heat conduction liquid in the cavity of the tubular pile, and the heat conduction pipes are connected with the collector and form a circulating channel with the cavity of the tubular pile. The invention also discloses a construction method of the pile. The construction method comprises the following technical steps of: constructing the tubular pile in a foundation, excavating pile core soil, making the bottom plate, installing the spreader plate, installing the cover plate, installing the heat conducting pipes, injecting the heat conducting liquid and the like. The geothermal energy collecting pile foundation has the advantages of simple and convenience for construction, no influence on the stress of the tubular pile body, convenience for examination and maintenance, wide application range and low construction cost, and is an energy saving and emission reduction pile with economy and high efficiency.

The emissions of hydrogen sulfide during the production of natural gas, oil or geothermal fluids from subterranean formations and the subsequent processing of these fluids is reduced by converting the hydrogen sulfide into a hydrogen halide or a halogen acid and then using the hydrogen halide or halogen acid for scale control and / or well acidizing. In a preferred embodiment, hydrogen sulfide produced with geothermal fluids is converted into hydrochloric acid, which is then used to reduce pH and control scale formation during the extraction of energy from geothermal fluids in a geothermal power plant.

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.

A single closed loop direct exchange geothermal power production system that utilizes a refrigerant working fluid in at least one of three primary designs to generate electrical power from deep wells: with a first version of a direct exchange geothermal power generating system operating primarily on refrigerant vapor pressure; with a second version of a direct exchange geothermal power generating system operating primarily on liquid refrigerant gravitational pressure; and with a third version of a direct exchange geothermal power generating system operating primarily on both liquid refrigerant gravitational pressure and refrigerant phase change / expansion from a liquid to a vapor state.

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.

Two Geothermal energy harnessing devices, steam producing System, electricity production Method and heat energy Method are invented for mining renewable geothermal heat energy within a non-polluting, re-circulating, closed cycle intended for electricity generating applications or for other direct or indirect heat uses. The devices, the “Geothermal Energy Collector” and the “Geothermal Energy Exchanger” can work with a Depressurized Mixing Container and a Pressurized Storage Container the entirety of which comprises “THE GEOTHERMAL FLUID HEATING OR STEAM PRODUCTION SYSTEM. The system serves other equipment, such as a phase separator, steam turbine, generator and condenser, which working together with the system comprises either “THE GEOTHERMAL ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION METHOD” or “THE GEOTHERMAL HEAT ENERGY METHOD”. The GEC or GEE can work alone or within a system to add heat to any fluid and to use the heated fluid to supplement any appropriate technology, to produce electricity or for other direct or indirect uses.

A geothermal system in deep, hot, dry rock has closed loop circulation, in which the water and steam circulating in the system are protected from any direct contact with the base rock. The system has a single L-shaped bore with a casing that lines the wellbore and has a sealed bottom end. A tubing within the casing has an open bottom end. Water or other liquid or gas is injected under pressure into the casing in the space between the casing and the tubing and is heated by the deep hot rock strata, creating heated liquid or gas which flows into the tubing through its open bottom end and is returned to the surface for use for heating, or in a power plant, or other applications. In a reverse configuration, the working fluid is injected into the tubing and is returned via the space between the casing and the tubing.

The invention discloses a low temperature geothermal energy production technique method, and belongs to a geothermal energy utilization technique. According to the method, fracturing and communication are performed in a heat storage stratum section through drilling, fracturing and directional drilling techniques on the premise that geological environment stability is ensured according to a geothermic gradient theory, so that subsections of a heat storage stratum are communicated in a certain depth underground, a relatively independent fluid circulation space system is formed, and the purpose of low temperature geothermal energy production is achieved in an extraction and filling combined linkage manner. The method and techniques are scientific and reasonable, the production and utilization problems of low-temperature geothermal energy in a vast underground water area are solved, the technical target that hot springs exist anywhere is achieved, geothermal energy resources are sufficiently utilized, and the geological environment is not damaged.

The invention discloses an image simulation method based on a continuous multiple-point geostatistics method, soft data and hard data. For the prediction simulation of permeability images, soft data and hard data are comprehensively utilized to provide a method simulating permeability distribution by using the continuous multiple-point geostatistics method so as to obtain a simulation result similar to the structure characteristics of training images. Compared with the condition that only hard data is used and condition data is not provided, the invention has the highest simulation precision when using soft data and hard data and has minimum CPU time and memory consumption. Compared with the two-point geostatistics method, the continuous MPS method can simulate permeability images more accurately, so that the invention can be widely applied to the application development fields, such as geothermal energy, oil and natural gas fields, coal bed gas and the like.

The invention discloses a buried pipe ground source heat pump system and method using peak power for assisting cold / heat storage. A buried pipe heat exchanger and a ground source heat pump unit form a cold / heat source side ring loop I, an evaporator and a primary side of a heat exchanger I of the ground source heat pump unit form a heat exchange ring loop II, and a secondary side of the heat exchanger I and a user side form a ring loop III; the evaporator of the ground source heat pump unit and an energy storage water tank form a cold storage ring loop IV; the energy storage water tank and a primary side of a heat exchanger II form a cold / heat release ring loop V; a secondary side of the heat exchanger II and the user side form a ring loop VI; an electric heating device and the energy storage water tank form a heat source side ring loop VII; a condenser of the ground source heat pump unit and a floor heating pipe form a user side ring loop VIII. The system fully utilizes shallow geothermal energy, peak power and electrical energy storage technique, and realizes the most economical air conditioner running mode. The technique solves the problem of cold / heat energy unbalance of underground rock and earth masses of northern dwelling house projects, and can be used as a remedial measure for single heating ground source heat pump projects.

The invention discloses a deep coal bed gas and dry hot rock type terrestrial heat combined mining method, and belongs to the technical field of geological new energy development. A CO2 injection well is a single-branch horizontal well, a horizontal well section is located in a hot dry rock geothermal reservoir, and 8-10 geothermal exploitation vertical wells are constructed on the ground on the two sides of the horizontal well section; and the CO2 injection well horizontal well section is subjected to staged fracturing and is synchronously fractured with the geothermal exploitation vertical well, so that an artificial fracture channel is formed between the CO2 injection well and the geothermal exploitation well. Lateral drilling of a branch horizontal well is carried out on a straight well section of the CO2 injection well, the lateral drilling horizontal well section is located in the deep coal reservoir, and after drilling is completed, a screen pipe is put down for well completion; and 8-10 coalbed methane mining vertical wells are constructed on the ground on the two sides of the lateral drilling horizontal well section, and a deep coal reservoir is transformed in a fracturing mode after perforation well completion. CO2 is injected into a well for continuous gas injection, the recovery ratio of deep coal bed gas is increased through the replacement and displacement effects of CO2 on CH4, meanwhile, the geothermal energy in the hot dry rock is extracted with supercritical CO2 as a circulating working medium, and the geothermal energy is converted into electric energy through a supercritical CO2 generator.

The invention discloses a geothermal exploitation system and a construction method thereof. The geothermal exploitation system comprises a mineshaft, an injecting pipeline and a collecting pipeline, wherein the injecting pipeline and the collecting pipeline are arranged along the inner wall of the mineshaft. The injecting pipeline communicates with the collecting pipeline through drilling holes in hot dry rock. The injecting pipeline communicates with an opening of one end of one of the drilling holes through an injecting roadway, and the collecting pipeline communicates with an opening of the other end of one of the drilling holes through a collecting roadway. The injecting pipeline and the collecting pipeline both are connected with a power generating working platform arranged on the ground, and accordingly, a closed cycle is formed. By means of the construction method of the geothermal exploitation system, geothermal energy can be exploited largely; numerous defects in an existing exploitation method are avoided; meanwhile, an existing mine is utilized or combined with deep mining to conduct geothermal exploitation so that the engineering cost can be reduced, unnecessary repeated building can be reduced, and an ore deposit without economic exploitation value due to the burial depth can be exploited. The method can be carried out in various old mines lacking of resources, so that the old mines are subjected to secondary production to break away from the dilemma that the resources are scarce.

A technique is disclosed for a system and method for combined production of power and hydrogen utilizing the heat from a first working fluid heated by a geothermal energy source using a steam generator and an electrolyzer designed to receive the steam produced by the steam generator for the production of hydrogen and oxygen using electrolysis.

A system designed to introduce fresh air ventilation into the living space, eliminate contaminants, and add fresh air to augment a building's HVAC system. This is done in order to save energy, and the costs associated with heat loss or gain in a building. The system employs the use of geothermal energy conferred to air via a cavity which is constructed in the basement, on the slab, foundation, in the crawl space and / or attic of a building. This cavity is created to circulate, absorb and store / release the geo-solar characteristics of a building, taking advantage the consistent subterranean temperature of the earth and / or sun, in order to warm air from outside during the winter minimizing the foundation heat sink, and cool air during the summer. One or more heat exchangers are used to transfer the energy from contaminated air in the cavity to clean air destined for the HVAC system.

A process for producing power including injecting a first heat transfer fluid through an injection well to a geothermally-heated formation that contains a second heat transfer fluid. The first heat transfer fluid may then be heated via indirect heat exchange in an interwell run fluidly connected to the injection well and disposed within the geothermally-heated formation. The heated first heat transfer fluid may then be recovered through a production well fluidly connected to the interwell run. Thermal energy contained in the recovered heated first heat transfer fluid may then be converted in a power production unit fluidly connected to the injection well and the production well. The interwell run, in some embodiments, may include multiple heat exchange tubes disposed within a perforated casing or drill pipe.

The invention provides a system for adapting an HVAC system in an existing building for utilizing geothermal energy, the system comprising an incoming flux of geothermal energy; a plurality of heat exchange surfaces adapted to receive the incoming flux of geothermal energy; and an interface between the HVAC system and the heat exchange surfaces, said interface adapted to transfer the geothermal energy to the system. Also provided is a method for repairing aberrations in drill borings, the method comprising using a rotary mud drill system to produce a drill hole up to the location of the aberrations; removing the rotary mud drill from the drill hole; inserting an auger into the drill hole to a point directly above the location of the aberrations; actuating the auger; introducing loose substrate into the drill hole; allowing the substrate to contact the auger; and lifting and lowering the auger along longitudinally extending regions of the drill hole defining the aberrations for a time and in substrate amounts sufficient to fill the aberrations. The invention also provides a system which facilitates rotating drill bits at an rpm which are multiples faster than their associated drill strings.

Methods for thermalsiphoning supercritical CO2 within a geothermal formation includes providing a geothermal energy system that includes an underground hot rock reservoir, a production well, and an injection well that together form a fluid path suitable for circulating supercritical CO2. The supercritical CO2 flows by thermosiphoning. Thermosiphoning is maximized by maintaining a pressure between 1400-4000 psia, an injection temperature in a range from 50-200 C and a production temperature in a range from 150-600 where injection temperature and the production temperature differ by at least 50° C.

The invention discloses a constant-temperature greenhouse. The constant-temperature house maintains the constant temperature and ventilation of the greenhouse through utilizing renewable geothermal energy, a heat recovery technology and an inflatable and deflatable double-layer insulation film. The constant-temperature greenhouse comprises polyethylene (PE) heat exchange tubes, a water tank, a water pump, a fresh air ventilator, the inflatable and deflatable double-layer insulation film and a temperature probe, wherein the water tank is used for supplementing water for the PE heat exchange tubes; the water pump is used for promoting the water circulation in the PE heat exchange tubes so as to bring the energy of a constant-temperature underground layer to a superficial ground, so that the ground is kept at constant temperature; the fresh air ventilator is used for supplementing fresh air into the constant-temperature greenhouse, recycling the energy of the constant-temperature greenhouse and maintaining a required environment for plant growth; the inflatable and deflatable double-layer insulation film is filled with dry air or deflated through inflation and deflation ports, the inflated double-layer insulation film is used for keeping the temperature of the constant-temperature greenhouse, and the deflated double-layer insulation film is used for absorbing the heat of the constant-temperature greenhouse; and the temperature probe is used for detecting the temperature inside and outside the constant-temperature greenhouse, judging the internal and external temperature difference condition and determining the inflation, deflation and fresh air quantity.

Disclosed is a two-stage heating geothermal system using geothermal energy. The two-stage heating geothermal system includes a geothermal heat exchanger, a geothermal heat pump, a booster heat pump, a bypass line, and a bypass line opening and closing valve. The operating efficiency of the two-stage heating geothermal system using geothermal energy is significantly improved. Hot water supply, auxiliary heating, and the like are controlled to be completely independent of main heating.

Ammonia sometimes present in geothermal steam increases the solubility of hydrogen sulfide in the steam condensate produced by the surface condenser in a steam cycle geothermal power generating unit by reacting with the hydrogen sulfide to produce nonvolatile ammonium bisulfide. The condenser vent gas also produced contains carbon dioxide. Contacting the steam condensate with the condenser vent gas at a pressure slightly greater than atmospheric causes carbon dioxide to dissolve in the condensate, decreasing pH and converting bisulfide ion back to hydrogen sulfide. Subsequently exposing the acidified condensate to condenser vacuum strips the hydrogen sulfide from the condensate, eliminating the need for further chemical treatment of the condensate to prevent air pollution. Hydrogen sulfide partitioning performance is further improved by converting the hydrogen sulfide in the vent gas to sulfur dioxide before contacting it with the condensate.

The present disclosure is directed to geothermal power generation systems. The systems can comprise a first separator is in fluid communication with the geothermal fluid source, the first separator having a high pressure steam outlet and a liquid fraction outlet. A high pressure turbine is in fluid communication with the high pressure steam outlet and is coupled to a first power generator. A high pressure condenser is in fluid communication with the high pressure turbine. A low pressure separator is in fluid communication with the liquid fraction outlet of the first separator, the low pressure separator being capable of separating steam from the liquid fraction outflow and providing low pressure steam through a low pressure steam conduit. A low pressure turbine is in fluid communication with the low pressure steam conduit, the low pressure turbine being coupled to a second power generator. A main condenser is in fluid communication with the low pressure turbine. Methods for generating geothermal power are also discussed.

The present invention is directed at the thermodynamic property amplification of a given thermal supply, provided by hydrocarbon combustion or in the preferred application heat provided by low-grade geothermal energy from the earth, for a vapor power cycle. The present invention achieves the desired objectives by segregating the compressible supercritical energy stream from the heat exchanger (boiler) into hot and cool fractions using a vortex tube, where the hot temperature is elevated above the heat exchanger temperature; and adding back heat (enthalpy) to the cool stream increasing the cool temperature to that of the geothermal heat exchanger. The heat-exchanger (boiler) supercritical gaseous mass flow segregated by a counterflow vortex tube (or bank of vortex tubes) forms hot and cool fractions where the hot temperature is raised above the heat-exchanger supply temperature, and heat (enthalpy) is added to the cool stream thereby increasing the cool temperature to that of the heat exchanger supply temperature.

The invention discloses a deep-sea carbon storage and power generation system. The deep-sea carbon storage and power generation system comprises a waste heat turbine, a waste gas heat exchanger, a gasstripping device, a waste gas treatment device, a supercritical carbon dioxide compressor, wave energy power generation equipment, a geothermal heat exchanger, a supercritical carbon dioxide turbineand a seabed cooler. According to the deep-sea carbon storage and power generation system disclosed by the invention, waste heat power generation and carbon dioxide stripping are performed on power plant waste gas, and the stripped carbon dioxide is applied to a seabed geothermal Brayton cycle, and is finally stored in deep-sea storage holes. The system is compact in structure, is small in size and is high in efficiency. Rich seabed geothermal energy is used as a heat source, is free of pollution and is low in cost; carbon dioxide is stored in the form of carbon dioxide hydrate, is relativelylow in cost, is environmentally-friendly and is good in leakproofness; and a dried oilfield, gas field or natural hole with a good storage cover in a seabed geologic body is utilized as a carbon storage site, so that the storage effect is good, and later-period maintaining and monitoring cost is reduced, and therefore, the system has a wide application prospect.