H31C:
Conventional and Enhanced Geothermal Systems: Characterization, Integration, Stimulation, Simulation, and Induced Seismicity I


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Session ID#: 61970

Session Description:
Exploration and exploitation of geothermal heat provide opportunities to increase energy options, energy market flexibility, and decrease greenhouse gases. We are seeking contributions from theoretical and technological advances that address site selection, characterization & data integration, fracture stimulation, reservoir simulation, and fluid-induced seismicity. We encourage presentations on modeling tools that integrate thermal, mechanical, geophysical, chemical and hydrological processes for geothermal design and simulation, stimulation predictions and trigged induced seismicity, thermal & chemical tracers, working fluid selection and geochemical reactions with surrounding rock.
Primary Convener:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Convener:  Markus Hilpert, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, United States
Chairs:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, United States and Markus Hilpert, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Univ California LLNL, Livermore, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1869 Stochastic hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1873 Uncertainty assessment [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Adaptive viscoelastic-waveform inversion using the local wavelet transform for geothermal reservoir characterization (451640)
Wenyong Pan and Lianjie Huang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
An integrated assessment of induced seismicity potential associated with enhanced geothermal systems (461701)
Zhiqiang Fan, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Rishi Parashar, Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States
Modeling recharge and convective downward migration of fractures in low-temperature geothermal systems (366375)
James W Patterson, ETH Zurich, ERDW, Zurich, Switzerland and Thomas Driesner, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Determination of Flow Connectivity and Heat Exchange Surface in Fractured Media Using Multicomponent Tracer Test (362519)
Xu Liang1, Xu Tianfu2, Zhenjiao Jiang2 and Bo Feng1, (1)Jilin University, Jilin, China, (2)Jilin University, Changchun, China
Uncertainty Analysis of Analytical and Numerical Geothermal Reservoir Simulations for Direct-Use Heating Applied to Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (406963)
Jared David Smith, US Geological Survey, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Reston, United States, Jood Ahmad Al Aswad, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Teresa E Jordan, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Jefferson W Tester, Cornell University, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States and Jery R Stedinger, Cornell University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States

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