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Hydro-Thermal Modeling for Geothermal Energy Extraction from Soultz-sous-Forêts, France

Mahmoodpour, Saeed ; Singh, Mrityunjay ; Turan, Aysegul ; Bär, Kristian ; Sass, Ingo (2022)
Hydro-Thermal Modeling for Geothermal Energy Extraction from Soultz-sous-Forêts, France.
In: Geosciences, 2022, 11 (11)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00020798
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Hydro-Thermal Modeling for Geothermal Energy Extraction from Soultz-sous-Forêts, France
Language: English
Date: 4 April 2022
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2022
Publisher: MDPI
Journal or Publication Title: Geosciences
Volume of the journal: 11
Issue Number: 11
Collation: 19 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00020798
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Origin: Secondary publication via sponsored Golden Open Access
Abstract:

The deep geothermal energy project at Soultz-sous-Forêts is located in the Upper Rhine Graben, France. As part of the Multidisciplinary and multi-contact demonstration of EGS exploration and Exploitation Techniques and potentials (MEET) project, this study aimed to evaluate the possibility of extracting higher amounts of energy from the existing industrial infrastructure. To achieve this objective, the effect of reinjecting fluid at lower temperature than the current fluid injection temperature of 70 °C was modeled and the drop in the production wellhead temperature for 100 years of operation was quantified. Two injection-production rate scenarios were considered and compared for their effect on overall production wellhead temperature. For each scenario, reinjection temperatures of 40, 50, and 60 °C were chosen and compared with the 70 °C injection case. For the lower production rate scenario, the results show that the production wellhead temperature is approximately 1–1.5 °C higher than for the higher production rate scenario after 100 years of operation. In conclusion, no significant thermal breakthrough was observed with the applied flow rates and lowered injection temperatures even after 100 years of operation.

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-207987
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Keywords: Soultz-sous-Forêts; EGS; hydro-thermal modeling

Classification DDC: 500 Science and mathematics > 550 Earth sciences and geology
Divisions: 11 Department of Materials and Earth Sciences > Earth Science > Geothermal Science and Technology
Date Deposited: 04 Apr 2022 12:23
Last Modified: 14 Nov 2023 19:04
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/20798
PPN: 494559438
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