EGS Collab Project: Status, Tests, and Data
Year: 2019
Type: paratext
Abstract: Copyright 2019 ARMA, American Rock Mechanics Association. The EGS (Enhanced Geothermal Systems) Collab project is performing stimulation and flow experiments in highly-monitored and well-characterized intermediate-scale (approximately10 to 20 meter) field test beds at a depth of approximately 1,500 meters in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Our fracture stimulation and interwell flow tests are performed to better understand processes that control formation of effective subsurface heat exchangers that are critical to the development and success of EGS. Different EGS Collab stimulations will be performed under dissimilar stress conditions to produce data for model comparisons that better differentiate stimulation mechanisms and the evolution of permeability enhancement in crystalline rock. EGS Collab experiments provide a means of testing tools, concepts, and strategies that could later be employed under geothermal reservoir conditions at DOE’s Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) and other enhanced geothermal systems. Key to the project is using numerical simulations in the experiment design and interpretation of
Authors: Timothy J. Kneafsey, Patrick Dobson, Jonathan Ajo‐Franklin, Yves Guglielmi, C. A. Valladao, Doug Blankenship, Paul Schwering, Hunter Knox, Mark D. White, T. C. Johnson, Chris Strickland, Vince R. Vermuel, Joseph P. Morris, Pengcheng Fu, Earl D. Mattson, Ghanashyam Neupane, Robert Podgorney, T. W. Doe, L. Huang, Luke Frash, Ahmad Ghassemi, William Roggenthen, S. J. Bauer, T. Baumgartner, K. Beckers, Douglas Blankenship, A. Bonneville, L. Boyd, S. Brown, Shawn T. Brown, Jeffrey Burghardt, T. Chen, Y. Chen, K. Condon, P. J. Cook, D. Crandall, T. Doe, C. A. Doughty, D. Elsworth, J. Feldman, A. Foris, Z. Frone, Kai-Kai Gao, H. Gudmundsdottir, G. Guthrie, B. Haimson, A. Hawkins, J. Heise, M. Horn, R. N. Horne, J. Horner, M. Hu, H. Huang, K. J. Im, M. Ingraham, R. S. Jayne, B. Johnston, Satish Karra, K. Kim, D. K. King, J. Knox, D. Kumar, K. Kutun, M. Lee, K. Li, R. Lopez, M. Maceira, P. Mackey, N. Makedonska, C. J. Marone, M. W. McClure, John McLennan, T. McLing, C. Medler, R. J. Mellors, E. Metcalfe, J. Miskimins, J. Moore, S. Nakagawa, G. Newman, A. Nieto, Curtis M. Oldenburg, W. Pan, T. Paronish, R. Pawar, P. Petrov, B. Pietzyk, Rob Podgorney, Yarom Polsky, J. Popejoy, S. Porse, B. Q. Roberts, M. Robertson, J. Rutqvist, D. Rynders, H. Santos-Villalobos, M. Schoenball, Paul Schwering, V. Sesetty, C. S. Sherman, Ankush Singh, M. M. Smith, H. Sone, F. A. Soom, J. Su, D. C. Templeton, Jonathan Thomle, C. Ulrich, N. Uzunlar, A. Vachaparampil, W. Vandermeer, G. Vandine, D. Vardiman, V. R. Vermeul, J. L. Wagoner, H. F. Wang, J. Weers, J. White, P. Winterfeld, T. Wood, S. Workman, Hui Wu, Yi-Yen Wu, Y. Wu, E. C. Yildirim, Y. Zhang, Y. Q. Zhang, J. Zhou, Q. Zhou, M. D. Zoback
Language: English
Subfield: Fuel Technology
Field: Energy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3012124333