Geothermal engineering : fundamentals and applications /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, Arnold (Author)
Corporate Author: Gale (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : Springer, 2013.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Sources of Geothermal Heat
  • Thermodynamics Background and the Properties of Water
  • The Equations Governing Heat and Single-Phase Fluid Flow and their Simplification for Particular Applications
  • Geothermal Drilling and Well Design
  • Well Measurements from Completion Tests to the First Discharge
  • Phase Change Phenomena and Two-Phase Flow
  • The Discharging Well
  • The Transient Response of Formations to Flow in a Well : Transient Pressure Well Testing
  • Economic issues relating to geothermal energy use
  • The power station
  • The steamfield
  • The resource development plan
  • Struggles between commercial use and conservation: examples from New Zealand
  • Appendices.