H41I:
Conventional and Enhanced Geothermal Systems: Characterization, Integration, Stimulation, Simulation, and Induced Seismicity I

Session ID#: 4851

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3018 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, United States and Azadeh Riahi, Itasca Consulting Group, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, United States
Co-conveners:  Azadeh Riahi, Itasca Consulting Group, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Alain Bonneville, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1849 Numerical approximations and analysis [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: Yes
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H41I-01
Effect of Reservoir-Caprock Interface Dip and Circulation of Produced Fluid on CO2-Based Geothermal Heat Extraction from Saline Aquifers (4945)
Nagasree Garapati, University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Jimmy Randolph, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Martin O Saar, ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland; ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
H41I-02
Multi-Fluid Geo-Energy Systems for Bulk and Thermal Energy Storage and Dispatchable Renewable and Low-Carbon Electricity (10644)
Thomas A Buscheck1, Jimmy Randolph2, Martin O Saar3, Yue Hao1, Yunwei Sun1 and Jeffrey M Bielicki4, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - LLNL, Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)Ohio State University, Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, United States
H41I-03
A New Concept for Geothermal Energy Extraction: The Radiator – Enhanced Geothermal System (29157)
Markus Hilpert, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Peter Geiser, Global Geophysical Services, Inc., Houston, TX, United States, Bruce D Marsh, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Peter Eric Malin, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand and Steven Moore, ATK, Elkton, MD, United States
H41I-04
Micro-earthquake Analysis for Reservoir Properties at the Prati-32 Injection Test, The Geysers, California (30545)
Lawrence J Hutchings and Ankit Kumar Singh, LBNL-Earth Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
H41I-05
Sensitivity Studies of 3D Reservoir Simulation at the I-Lan Geothermal Area in Taiwan Using TOUGH2 (31853)
Chia-Wei Kuo, Department of Geoscience, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Sheng-Rong Song, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
H41I-06
Uplift Around the Geothermal Power Plant of Landau (Germany) Observed from InSAR Monitoring (7377)
Christine Heimlich1, Frederic Masson2, Noel Gourmelen3, Jean Schmittbuhl2, Jerome Azzola4 and Sang-Wan Kim5, (1)University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France, (2)University of Strasbourg/CNRS, Strasbourg Cedex, France, (3)University of Edimburgh, Edimburgh, United Kingdom, (4)École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, Nancy, France, (5)Sejong University, Department of Energy and Mineral Resources Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
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