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    Geothermal Energy and Its Application: By-Aman Jain Priyanka Mittal

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    This document discusses geothermal energy, how it works, and its applications. Geothermal energy is heat from the Earth's core that is transferred outward. When this heat reaches underground water sources, geothermal reservoirs can form where the hot water is trapped by impermeable rock. There are four main types of geothermal power plants - flash, dry steam, binary, and combined flash/binary - that convert this geothermal heat into electricity or direct heating uses. The electricity is generated through turbines powered by the steam produced from the hot water reservoirs.

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    This document discusses geothermal energy, how it works, and its applications. Geothermal energy is heat from the Earth's core that is transferred outward. When this heat reaches underground water sources, geothermal reservoirs can form where the hot water is trapped by impermeable rock. There are four main types of geothermal power plants - flash, dry steam, binary, and combined flash/binary - that convert this geothermal heat into electricity or direct heating uses. The electricity is generated through turbines powered by the steam produced from the hot water reservoirs.

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    This document discusses geothermal energy, how it works, and its applications. Geothermal energy is heat from the Earth's core that is transferred outward. When this heat reaches underground water sources, geothermal reservoirs can form where the hot water is trapped by impermeable rock. There are four main types of geothermal power plants - flash, dry steam, binary, and combined flash/binary - that convert this geothermal heat into electricity or direct heating uses. The electricity is generated through turbines powered by the steam produced from the hot water reservoirs.

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    Geothermal

    Energy and Its


    Application
    By-
    Aman Jain
    Priyanka Mittal
    What is Geo Thermal Energy?
     Geothermal energy is defined as heat from
    the Earth.
     The difference in temperature between the
    core of the planet and its surface, drives a
    continuous conduction of thermal energy in
    the form of heat from the core to the surface.
     Renewable Energy.
    How does a conventional
    Geothermal reservoir work ?
     The heat from the Earth's core continuously flows
    outward.
     Sometimes the heat reaches the surface as lava, but
    it usually remains below the Earth's crust, heating
    nearby rock
     When water is heated by the earth’s heat, hot water
    or steam can be trapped in permeable and porous
    rocks under a layer of impermeable rock and a
    geothermal reservoir can form. This hot geothermal
    water can manifest itself on the surface as hot springs
    or geysers, but most of it stays deep underground,
    trapped in cracks and porous rock. This natural
    collection of hot water is called a geothermal
    reservoir.
    Geothermal Energy Uses
     Electricity
    Production
     Heating Purpose
     Home Heating and cooling using
    geothermal heat pumps
    Geothermal Power Plant
    Four Types-
    • Flash power plants
    • Dry steam power plants
    • Binary power plants,
    • Flash/binary combined power plants.
    Flash power plants
     Geothermally heated water under
    pressure is separated in a surface vessel
    into steam and hot water The steam is
    delivered to the turbine, and the turbine
    powers a generator. The liquid is injected
    back into the reservoir.
    Dry steam power plant
     DrySteam Power Plant: Steam is
    produced directly from the geothermal
    reservoir to run the turbines that power
    the generator, and no separation is
    necessary because wells only produce
    steam
    Binary power plant
     Binary plants typically use an Organic Rankine
    Cycle system.
     The geothermal water heats another liquid,
    such as isobutane or other organic fluids such
    as pentafluoropropane, which boils at a lower
    temperature than water.
     The two liquids are kept completely separate
    through the use of a heat exchanger, which
    transfers the heat energy from the
    geothermal water to the working fluid.
     The secondary fluid expands into gaseous
    vapor. The force of the expanding vapor, like
    steam, turns the turbines that power the
    generators.
    Flash/binary combined power
    plants.
     This type of plant, which uses a
    combination of flash and binary
    technology, has been used effectively to
    take advantage of the benefits of both
    technologies. In this type of plant, the
    portion of the geothermal water which
    “flashes” to steam under reduced
    pressure is first converted to electricity
    with a backpressure steam turbine and
    the low-pressure steam exiting the
    backpressure turbine is condensed in a
    binary system.
    References

     http://geo-energy.org/Basics.aspx
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_
    energy
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_spring

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