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1. FIELDS OF USE
2.1 Elements specific to geothermal technology - CV1÷CV4 electrically managed taps for
with industrial application geothermal water circuit, CV5÷CV8 respectively for
agent circuit for pre-drying or drying installation it serves;
The technological unit needed for a geothermal - TT1÷TT4, Tx1÷Tx4 temperature transducer;
system with industrial application is made up of two main - H1÷H4 hydrophore system (endowed with
parts. (C1÷C4 compressors and P5÷P8 completion pumps).
The former includes the general elements belonging The thermic agent used is geothermal water from a
to geothermal systems, that is: geothermal drilling (85°C, 30 l/s artesian debit). The
♦ Geothermal well system is provided with a pressure transducer of TP1
♦ Connector to the geothermal well or a distribution pressure and an electrically managed tap CV0. An “axis”
network type depth pump is installed in the well that is placed at
♦ Fluid piping 90 m depth and stimulated by a 65 kW electrical engine
♦ Chemical water treatment equipment (manufactured by General Motors, USA) lying on the
♦ Heat shifting system upper side of the pump-axis aggregate. The system also
The latter part of the technological unit is made up of includes the following:
elements specific to geothermal energy industrial a) a 300 m3 buffer tank placed right near the well station
application, as follows: whose aim is to disperse gas and make the system work
• Steam extraction system; steadily;
• Geothermal fluid climbing system; b) pumping unit placed near the well station that is
• Equipment to alter working parameters (pressure, equipped with two Grundfos pumps and other auxiliary
temperature and flow); equipments. The pumping unit has to provide geothermal
• Processing devices to implement technological water by meeting the debit and pressure requirements for
processes. downstream equipments.
In order to use geothermal energy as energy source in The system works in both i) “artesian conditions”, in
industrial processes as a consequence of physical- which case well station distributes geothermal water
chemical properties of geothermal fluid, materials directly to the main piping system, and ii) “pumping
appropriate to geothermal water have to be used in conditions”, in which case well unit distributes
installations to build the specific equipments in order to geothermal water to the buffer tank nearby, while
avoid corrosion. pumping unit takes over the water from the tank and
High salt geothermal fluids will cause high uniform pumps it in the main pipeline whence it is distributed to
and local corrosion thus limiting the use of carbon steels. different consumers.
The use of “soft” steel in geothermal environments needs C 4
C 3
P 3
P 7
corroded or cracked.
CV7 T Tx3
FR U C TE
SC 3 D E PA D U R E
TT3
CV3 C 2
H 2
M P 6
P 2
RESOURCES
LEM N OS
TT2
CV2
C 1
M H 1 P 5
P 1
CV1
M
REZERVOR TAM PON
300m p
P 4
A L IM E N T A R E C U DHW
CV5 h
A PA G EO TE RM AL Ă
M
TT6 Qinc 2.420.000
TT12
&sec=
m .tot
= =160m3 / h =45l / s
PT7 c⋅(tsies−tsin) 1000⋅(45−30)
M
TT7
CV3
D EV ER SA R E CV4
M
A PA G EO TER M ALĂ
U Z A T A T E R M IC
Considering that the primary agent debit
(geothermal water) is 170 m3/h (47,5l/s) with a
TT4 PT3
tpin=50°C entrance temperature, the exit temperature in
CV2
heat shift tpies (discharge) of geothermal water and the
M
TT8 TT5 needed heat exchange surface Snec (the two working
fluids have to circulate against the current) are
CW CI TT9 PT6 determined.
PS4
P9 P8 h
Qinc 2.420.000
P7 P6 P5 t pies = t pin − .tot
= 50 − = 35°C
FT9 m& p ⋅ c 170 ⋅1000
TT11
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