Sustainable development of enhanced geothermal systems based on geotechnical research–A review

WGP Kumari, PG Ranjith - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The world's primary energy requirements are supplied to a large extent by non-renewable
energy resources, which has resulted in significant anthropogenic greenhouse gas …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms causing injectivity decline and enhancement in geothermal projects

W Luo, A Kottsova, PJ Vardon, AC Dieudonné… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
In geothermal projects, reinjection of produced water has been widely applied for disposing
wastewater, supplying heat exchange media and maintaining reservoir pressure …

[图书][B] Thermo-hydro-mechanical chemical processes in fractured porous media: modelling and benchmarking

O Kolditz, H Shao, W Wang, S Bauer - 2016 - Springer
Numerical tools dealing with the coupled thermal, hydraulic, mechanical, chemical and
biological processes have been developed to analyze experimental outputs, field …

25 years of DECOVALEX-Scientific advances and lessons learned from an international research collaboration in coupled subsurface processes

JT Birkholzer, CF Tsang, AE Bond, JA Hudson… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper provides an overview of an international research collaboration for advancing the
understanding and modeling of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) …

Experimental investigation of quenching effect on mechanical, microstructural and flow characteristics of reservoir rocks: Thermal stimulation method for geothermal …

WGP Kumari, PG Ranjith, MSA Perera… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermal stimulation method can be effectively utilized to enhance the flow performance in
the tight porous media with an induced thermal shock. This approach can be applied to …

Fractured rock stress–permeability relationships from in situ data and effects of temperature and chemical–mechanical couplings

J Rutqvist - Crustal Permeability, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews field data on stress‐induced permeability changes in fractured rock;
describes the estimation of fractured rock stress‐permeability relationships through model …

Effect of temperature and confining pressure on the evolution of hydraulic and heat transfer properties of geothermal fracture in granite

B Shu, R Zhu, D Elsworth, J Dick, S Liu, J Tan, S Zhang - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The hydraulic and heat transfer properties of artificial fracture networks are key to the
efficiency of energy production from geothermal reservoirs. To date, no conclusive view …

Permeability evolution and crack characteristics in granite under treatment at high temperature

WL Tian, SQ Yang, D Elsworth, JG Wang… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The evolution of permeability and microcrack characteristics of granite at high temperature
has significant effect on the safe and stable operation of high-level nuclear waste disposal …

Experimental investigation of fracture aperture and permeability change within Enhanced Geothermal Systems

RA Caulk, E Ghazanfari, JN Perdrial, N Perdrial - Geothermics, 2016 - Elsevier
A method was developed for experimentally observing the evolution of fracture
aperture/permeability within a granite-based Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) in an …

Evolution of permeability in a single granite fracture at high temperature

B Shu, R Zhu, J Tan, S Zhang, M Liang - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermal energy recovered from Hot Dry Rock (HDR) or Engineered Geothermal Systems
(EGS) is clean and renewable and may fulfill current energy demands. The long term flow …