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Geothermal Power Generation, New Developments and Innovations, Second Edition provides an update to the advanced energy technologies that are urgently required to meet the challenges of economic development, climate change mitigation, and energy security. Edited by respected and leading experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the major aspects of geothermal power production. Chapters cover resource discovery, resource characterization, energy conversion systems, design, economic considerations, and a range of fascinating and updated case studies from across the world. Geothermal resources are considered renewable and are currently the only renewable source able to generate baseload electricity while producing very low levels of greenhouse gas emissions, thus playing a key role in future energy needs.
Front Cover -- Geothermal Power Generation -- Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy Geothermal Power Generation Developments and Innovation -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Author Biographies -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1 -Resource Exploration, Characterization, and Evaluation -- 1 -- Introduction to Geothermal Power Generation -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Geothermal Resources -- 1.3 Well Drilling -- 1.4 Reservoir Engineering -- 1.5 Reservoir Monitoring -- 1.6 Engineered Geothermal Systems -- 1.7 Geothermal Power Generation -- 1.8 Geothermal as Sustainable and Renewable -- 1.9 Geothermal Reservoir Pumps -- 1.10 Geothermal Costs -- 2 -- Geology of Geothermal Resources -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Heat Flow and Plate Tectonics -- 2.2.1 Installed Geothermal Electrical Generating Capacity -- 2.2.2 Geothermal Systems and Plate Tectonics -- 2.3 Temperature-Depth Relationships in Geothermal Systems -- 2.4 Geothermal Systems With Economic Potential -- 2.5 Geologic Techniques -- 2.5.1 Hydrothermal Alteration.
edited by Ronald DiPippo, Luis C.A. Gutiérrez-Negrín, Andrew Chiasson.
Includes bibliographical references and index.