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

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States and Azadeh Riahi, Itasca Consulting Group, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, CA, 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 Liaisons:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Effect of Reservoir-Caprock Interface Dip and Circulation of Produced Fluid on CO2-Based Geothermal Heat Extraction from Saline Aquifers
Nagasree Garapati1, Jimmy Randolph1 and Martin O Saar1,2, (1)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
8:20 AM
 
Multi-Fluid Geo-Energy Systems for Bulk and Thermal Energy Storage and Dispatchable Renewable and Low-Carbon Electricity
Thomas A Buscheck1, Jimmy Randolph2, Martin O Saar2, Yue Hao1, Yunwei Sun1 and Jeffrey M Bielicki3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - LLNL, Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
8:40 AM
 
A New Concept for Geothermal Energy Extraction: The Radiator – Enhanced Geothermal System
Markus Hilpert1, Peter Geiser2, Bruce D Marsh1, Peter E Malin3 and Steven Moore4, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Global Geophysical Services, Inc., Houston, TX, United States, (3)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (4)ATK, Elkton, MD, United States
9:00 AM
 
Micro-earthquake Analysis for Reservoir Properties at the Prati-32 Injection Test, The Geysers, California
Lawrence J Hutchings and Ankit Kumar Singh, LBNL-Earth Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
9:20 AM
 
Sensitivity Studies of 3D Reservoir Simulation at the I-Lan Geothermal Area in Taiwan Using TOUGH2
Chia-Wei Kuo, Department of Geoscience, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Sheng-Rong Song, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
9:40 AM
 
Uplift Around the Geothermal Power Plant of Landau (Germany) Observed from InSAR Monitoring
Christine Heimlich1, Frederic Masson1, Noel Gourmelen2, Jean Schmittbuhl1, Jérôme Azzola3 and Sang-Wan Kim4, (1)University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France, (2)University of Edimburgh, Edimburgh, United Kingdom, (3)École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy, Nancy, France, (4)Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea
 
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