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Geothermal Power Plant

There are three main types of geothermal power plants: dry steam, flash steam, and binary. Dry steam plants pipe hot steam directly from reservoirs into turbines. Flash steam plants pump high-temperature fluid underground into lower pressure tanks, causing some fluid to vaporize and drive turbines. Binary plants transfer heat from lower-temperature geothermal water to another fluid with a lower boiling point, vaporizing it to power turbines. The largest binary plant is the 100MW Ngatamariki plant in New Zealand, which uses wells up to 2,963m deep. When siting geothermal power plants, key factors considered include physical characteristics, socioeconomic conditions, and technical requirements like heat sources and infrastructure needs.

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Geothermal Power Plant

There are three main types of geothermal power plants: dry steam, flash steam, and binary. Dry steam plants pipe hot steam directly from reservoirs into turbines. Flash steam plants pump high-temperature fluid underground into lower pressure tanks, causing some fluid to vaporize and drive turbines. Binary plants transfer heat from lower-temperature geothermal water to another fluid with a lower boiling point, vaporizing it to power turbines. The largest binary plant is the 100MW Ngatamariki plant in New Zealand, which uses wells up to 2,963m deep. When siting geothermal power plants, key factors considered include physical characteristics, socioeconomic conditions, and technical requirements like heat sources and infrastructure needs.

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GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT

Geothermal power plants are used in order to generate electricity by the use of geothermal
energy (the Earth's internal thermal energy). They essentially work the same as a coal or nuclear power
plant, the main difference being the heat source.

THREE TYPES OF GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT

DRY STEAM POWER PLANT

Hot steam is piped directly from geothermal reservoirs into generators in the power plant. The
steam spins turbines, which generate electricity.

STEAM SEPARATOR

Steam separator are designed to efficiently


remove the moisture from steam flow.

FLASH STEAM POWER PLANT

Flash steam plants are the most common type of geothermal power generation plants in
operation today. Fluid at temperatures greater than 360°F (182°C) is pumped under high pressure into
a tank at the surface held at a much lower pressure, causing some of the fluid to rapidly vaporize, or
"flash." The vapor then drives a turbine, which drives a generator. If any liquid remains in the tank, it
can be flashed again in a second tank to extract even more energy.

BINARY POWER PLANT

Low to Moderately hot geothermal water is passed through a heat exchanger, where its heat is
transferred to another liquid that boils at a lower temperature than water. When that fluid is heated it
turns to steam, which spins the turbines.

Low to Moderate Temperature: 85°C to 170°C

Isopentane: 27.8oC and Isobutane: -11.7oC


A heat exchanger is a device designed to efficiently
transfer or "exchange" heat from one fluid to another.

LARGEST BINARY POWER PLANT

Ngatamariki Geothermal Power Plant

The 100MW Ngatamariki Geothermal Power Plant is the world’s largest binary power plant. It is
located north of Taupo in New Zealand.

The plant is developed in an area approximately 7km2. Have three production wells and four re-
injection wells. $466m plant is fully owned by Mighty River Power. Wells have a depth of 2963m.

MakBan (Makiling-Banahaw) Power Plant

A 6 MW binary plant at the Makiling-Banahaw (MakBan) geothermal project in Sto. Tomas,


Batangas.

PARTS of a GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT

Production Well

A well from which water, gas, or oil is actually to be recovered, as opposed to other wells, e.g.
those designed to determine hydraulic characteristics, to recharge an aquifer, or to act as injection wells
to push oil towards the production well.

Injection Well

An injection well is a device that places fluid deep underground into porous rock formations,
such as sandstone or limestone, or into or below the shallow soil layer. The fluid may be water,
wastewater, brine (salt water), or water mixed with chemicals.

Other parts are steam separator, heat exchanger, turbine and generator and cooling tower.

SITE CONSIDERATION

GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT SITE SELECTION USING GIS IN SABALAN AREA, NW IRAN

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM

A Geographic Information System (GIS) was used as a decision-making tool to target potential
geothermal power plant sites in Sabalan geothermal field, Northwestern part of Iran
3 MAIN FACTORS THEY CONSIDER IN THEIR RESEARCH

• PHYSICAL DATASET

Physical studies play an important role in all stages of GPP siting. In the initial stages of
siting programs, the study areas were typically studied together

• SOCIO ECONOMICAL DATASET

Socioeconomic study and conditions are usually hard to identify and investigate, as they
are related to the human beings and their characteristics, which usually differ widely within the
same community and from one community to another

• TECHNICAL DATASET

In this study the most important requirements including anomaly zone, well locations
and hot springs categorized in to the technical data.

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