Assessment of low temperature geothermal resources

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Arkan, Serkan

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One of the most applicable methods of low-temperature geothermal resource assessment is volumetric method. While applying volumetric method, the values of uncertain parameters should be determined. An add-in software program to Microsoft EXCEL, @RISK, is used as a tool to define the uncertainties of the parameters in volumetric equation. In this study, Monte Carlo simulation technique is used as the probabilistic approach for the assessment of lowtemperature Balçova-Narlidere geothermal field. Although Balçova-Narlidere geothermal field is being utilized for several direct heat applications, there exists limited data for resource assessment calculations. Assessment studies using triangular and uniform distribution type functions for each parameter gave the mean values of recoverable heat energy of the field as 25.1 MWt and 27.6 MWt, respectively. As optimistic values (90%), those values were found as 43.6 MWt and 54.3 MWt. While calculating these numbers, a project life of 25 years with a load factor of 50% is used.

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Geothermal resources

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/1122662/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13772

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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S. Arkan, “Assessment of low temperature geothermal resources,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.