Auxiliary Heating of Geothermally Preheated Water or CO2 – A Potential Solution for Low- to Moderate-Temperature Geothermal Resources

Nagasree Garapati1,2, Benjamin M Adams3, Jimmy Randolph4,5, Thomas H Kuehn3, Martin O Saar6,7, Xiangzhao Kong8 and Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Group, (1)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)TerraCOH Inc, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (6)ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, (7)ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (8)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States