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Energy and Environment ENVE 411 Geothermal Energy

Introduction There are only two non solar sources of renewable energy that have sufficient potential to warrant consideration at this time These are tidal and geothermal energies.

Sources of Earth’s Internal Energy Some energy is from residual heat left over from Earths formation. The rest of the energy comes from meteorite impacts.

Different Geothermal Energy Sources Hot Water Reservoirs: As the name implies these are reservoirs of hot underground water. There is a large amount of them in the US, but they are more suited for space heating than for electricity production. Natural Steam Reservoirs: In this case a hole dug into the ground can cause steam to come to the surface and used to drive turbines. This type of resource is rare. Geopressured Reservoirs: In this type of reserve, brine completely saturated with natural gas in stored under pressure from the weight of overlying rock. This type of resource can be used for both heat and for natural gas.

Normal Geothermal Gradient: At any place on the planet, there is a normal temperature gradient of +300C per km dug into the earth. Therefore, if one digs 20,000 feet the temperature will be about 1900C above the surface temperature. This difference will be enough to produce electricity. However, no useful and economical technology has been developed to extracted this large source of energy. Hot Dry Rock: This type of condition exists in 5% of the US. It is similar to Normal Geothermal Gradient, but the gradient is 400C/km dug underground. Molten Magma: No technology exists to tap into the heat reserves stored in magma. The best sources for this in the US are in Alaska and Hawaii.

Direct uses of geothermal energy is appropriate for sources below 1500C space heating air conditioning industrial processes drying Greenhouses Aguaculture hot water resorts and pools melting snow

Geothermal’s Harmful Effects Brine can salinate soil if the water is not injected back into the reserve after the heat is extracted. Extracting large amounts of water can cause land subsidence, and this can lead to an increase in seismic activity. To prevented this the cooled water must be injected back into the reserve in order to keep the water pressure constant underground. Power plants that do not inject the cooled water back into the ground can release H2S, the “rotten eggs” gas. This gas can cause problems if large quantities escape because it has too much fatal.

Geothermal’s Positive Attributes Useful minerals, such as zinc and silica, can be extracted from underground water. In large plants the cost is 4-8 cents per kilowatt hour. This cost is almost competitive with conventional energy sources. Geothermal plants can be online 100%-90% of the time. Coal plants can only be online 75% of the time and nuclear plants can only be online 65% of the time. Flash and Dry Steam Power Plants emit 1000x to 2000x less carbon dioxide than fossil fuel plants, no nitrogen oxides and little SO2.

Geothermal electric plants production in 13 Geothermal electric plants production in 13.380 g of Carbon dioxide per kWh, whereas the CO2 emissions are 453 g/kWh for natural gas, 906g g/kWh for oil and 1042 g/kWh for coal. Binary and Hot Dry Rock plants have no gaseous emission at all. Geothermal plants do not require a lot of land, 400m2 can produce a gigawatt of energy over 30 years.

Example Geothermal site cover an area of 70 km2 , and the thickness of the subsurface zone from which heat is recoverable is 2.0 km. in this zone the temperature is 240oC and the volumetric specific heat is 2.5 joules/cm3.oC Calculate the heat energy content in joules (at temperature above the mean annual surface temperature of 15oC). for how many years can this site provide power for a 2000 MW plant if 1.9% of the thermal energy can be converted to electricity? Do not consider any possible replenishment of the heat energy< the rate at which this happens is very slow compared to the rate at which the heat energy is withdrawn. These numbers are reperesentative of the geothermal site