Study of geothermal power generation from a very deep oil well with a wellbore heat exchanger

C. Alimonti and E. Soldo

Renewable Energy, 2016, vol. 86, issue C, 292-301

Abstract: The present study analyses the possibility to implement a WellBore Heat eXchanger (WBHX) on one of the largest European oil fields: the Villafortuna Trecate oilfield. The research is focused on the optimization of the WBHX to maximize the extracted heat. Hence, a numerical model of a WBHX has been setup. The simulations have considered the use of two different heat transfer fluids: water and diathermic oil. It was also tried different internal diameters of the pipes in order to optimize the geometrical configuration for the specific case study.

Keywords: Wellbore heat exchanger; Geothermal energy; Oil wells (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (31)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148115302317
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:86:y:2016:i:c:p:292-301

DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.08.031

Access Statistics for this article

Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides

More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().