A review of mathematical models for geothermal wellbore simulation

RA Tonkin, MJ O'Sullivan, JP O'Sullivan - Geothermics, 2021 - Elsevier
A wellbore simulator is an important tool for understanding flow in geothermal wells,
however, the literature on the topic is confusing because previous wellbore simulators have …

Review of wellbore flow modelling in CO2-bearing geothermal reservoirs

CH Canbaz, O Ekren, N Aksoy - Geothermics, 2022 - Elsevier
Geothermal energy is a reliable, environmentally friendly resource efficiently transformed to
other energy forms without any storage. Therefore, it has taken the attention of many …

Comparison of CO2 and water as working fluids for an enhanced geothermal system in the Gonghe Basin, northwest China

C Zhong, T Xu, F Gherardi, Y Yuan - Gondwana research, 2023 - Elsevier
Because of the additional benefit of geological storage and the self-sustaining thermosiphon
effect, CO 2 instead of water as a working fluid for geothermal energy production has …

A data-driven approach for lithology identification based on parameter-optimized ensemble learning

Z Sun, B Jiang, X Li, J Li, K Xiao - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The identification of underground formation lithology can serve as a basis for petroleum
exploration and development. This study integrates Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) …

The impacts of geothermal gradients on compressed carbon dioxide energy storage in aquifers

Y Li, J Cui, H Yu, D Tang, G Zhang, Y Liu - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Compressed CO 2 energy storage in aquifers (CCESA) is new low-cost large scale energy
storage technology. To further improve the energy efficiency of CCESA, we propose to …

A lithology identification approach based on machine learning with evolutionary parameter tuning

CM Saporetti, LG da Fonseca… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identification of underground formation lithology from well-log data is an important task in
petroleum exploration and engineering. Due to the cost or imprecision of some methods …

Thermal and fluid processes in a closed-loop geothermal system using CO2 as a working fluid

Z Hu, T Xu, B Feng, Y Yuan, F Li, G Feng, Z Jiang - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
A co-axial closed-loop geothermal system is a new method to extract geothermal energy. It
uses a continuously closed wellbore and the closed system can avoid many problems of …

Neural network boosted with differential evolution for lithology identification based on well logs information

CM Saporetti, L Goliatt, E Pereira - Earth Science Informatics, 2021 - Springer
Lithology identification of geological beds in the subsurface is fundamental in reservoir
characterization. Recently, automated log analysis has an increasing demand in reservoir …

Heat Production Performance from an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) Using CO2 as the Working Fluid

W Zhao, Y Yuan, T Jing, C Zhong, S Wei, Y Yin, D Zhao… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
CO2-based enhanced geothermal systems (CO2-EGS) are greatly attractive in geothermal
energy production due to their high flow rates and the additional benefit of CO2 geological …

A transient geothermal wellbore simulator

R Tonkin, J O'Sullivan, M Gravatt, M O'Sullivan - Geothermics, 2023 - Elsevier
A new transient geothermal wellbore simulator is presented. It is based on a mathematical
model consisting of three conservation equations (mass, momentum and energy) and a slip …